After 98 Years, Archaeologists Found the Missing Torso of an Ancient Buddha Statue
While excavating the Ta Prohm temple in Angkor in 1927, a team of archaeologists discovered the head (and only the head) of a ...
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What Archaeologists Are Uncovering About the Buddha in His Legendary Nepali Hometown
Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt ...
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South Korea’s Worst Ever Wildfires Ravage Ancient Buddhist Temples and Menace Historic Villages
One monk said his old temple was ‘reduced to heaps of ashes,’ as the fires continue to rage across the country ...
Workers save Buddha as S. Korea's wildfires raze ancient temple
At South Korea's thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a ...
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Workers save Buddha as S. Korea’s wildfires raze ancient temple
The giant Buddha at the centre of the building survived. A heavy bell that once hung on an ancient wooden structure nearby sat cracked on top of the debris. “We will do our best to restore the ...
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After 98 Years, Archaeologists Found the Missing Torso of an Ancient Buddha Statue
An archaeological excavation team was shocked to find a fully intact Buddha torso statue from the 12 th or 13 th century measuring 3.75 feet tall. The torso find at a Cambodian temple matches a ...