A South Korean temple that claimed the ownership of a Buddha statue stolen from a Japanese temple will return the statue to the original owner next spring, it has been learned. Buseoksa Temple in ...

SEOUL (Mainichi) -- A temple in South Korea that claimed ownership of a Buddha statue stolen from Japan will not oppose returning it, a source close to the temple has revealed, but on the ...

Buseoksa Temple in Seosan, South Korea, shows the seated Buddha statue on May 10, 2025, before its return to Japan's Kannonji temple. (Kyodo) SEOSAN, South Korea (Kyodo) -- A South Korean temple ...

A Buddha statue stolen in 2012 from a temple on Tsushima, an island in Nagasaki Prefecture, was handed over to the Japanese side at a temple in Seosan, central South Korea, on Saturday ...

(Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP) At South Korea’s thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with ... at the scene saw huge chunks of ash floating ...

A South Korean man tending ... photos from the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism. Some of the artifacts that were in the historic site, including the seated stone Buddha designated a treasure by ...

A South Korean temple that claimed ownership of a 14th-century Buddha statue stolen from a Japanese temple in 2012 handed it over to the Japanese owner on Saturday. While the statue, taken by South ...