Over the past seven years, the women have worked on more than 70 wooden Buddha statues throughout Japan. Examples of Sanjoudou's restoration work The restoration process is labor-intensive and ...

As China’s oldest extant wooden pagoda, it represents the pinnacle ... The first floor houses a Sakyamuni Buddha statue, while the upper levels contain separate sanctuaries dedicated to various ...

Over the centuries, the cultural treasures grew in number. The most remarkable is the Giant Buddha of Leshan, carved out of a hillside in the 8th century and looking down on the confluence of three ...

The Hiroshima Daibutsu (big Buddha statue) is currently enshrined ... 67 years to go on public display in July. It is a gilded wooden statue about four meters tall and believed to have been ...

Uncover the timeless beauty of But Thap Pagoda, home to Vietnam’s finest wooden sculptures and centuries-old artifacts.

workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a fire-retardant blanket. Hours later much of the temple burned ...

A restored sandstone Buddha foot statue and six ancient wooden Buddha statues are on display at the Preah Norodom Sihanouk-Angkor Museum in Cambodia’s northwestern Siem Reap province ...

At South Korea's thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a fire ... Korea -- but the Buddha and the wooden hall it was in survived.