the museum's chief researcher who specializes in the history of sculptures in Japan, headed the research. He noted it was possible the miniature Buddha was a “nenjibutsu,” or small statue of ...

A Buddhist statue of the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva ... it back to Kannon Temple on Tsushima Island in the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Nagasaki. In 2023, South Korea's Supreme Court ...

A Shingon Buddhism temple, Jigenin ... height as the statue's shoulder and enjoy an expansive view. Japan's giant Kannon statues come in various shapes and styles. Some have strong links to ...

Imura and Morisaki promptly agreed. Naka Ai carves a replacement halo for a Buddha statue. They called their venture Sanjoudou, which in Japanese means "combining the power of three" and based ...

A 57m (187ft) Buddhist statue dedicated to the Goddess of Mercy, Kannon, in central Japan has been draped with a giant face covering. Temple managers in Aizuwakamatsu plan to keep the figure ...

There are more than 20,000 large and small Buddhist and Christian stone markers and unmarked graves of war dead, as well as a giant statue of Kannon, the goddess of mercy in Japanese Buddhism ...

Tsubosakadera temple in Takatori, Nara Prefecture, is known as a place where people can come to pray for eye diseases to be ...

Every day, watched by four gilded Buddha statues, a Japanese Buddhist monk drums his way over the grass. His name is the Reverend Gyoro Nagase, and he knows these gilded Buddhas very well.