Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic Church’s most celebrated ...

Sometimes called the Kyoto of eastern Japan, Kamakura boasts dozens of shrines including the Great Buddha, a towering ...

At South Korea's thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a fire-retardant blanket. Hours later much of the temple burned down in one of the ...

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There are plenty of other great Harry Potter puzzles to choose from if you're looking for something smaller. This is another puzzle from Aquarius that totals 3,000 pieces, but this time it ...

In the opening scene of Season 3, Nicholas Duvernay’s character hurls expletives at a Buddha statue — encapsulating the character’s cultural ignorance while also foreshadowing how the ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the torso of a statue of Buddha that matches a ...

The renowned Angkor site has yielded a striking discovery. Archaeologists discovered a torso that unexpectedly matched an ...

The ‘happiest country on Earth’, is set to open a major new international airport in the hopes of drawing in more tourists.

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Unprecedented wildfires ripping through South Korea’s southern regions have destroyed large parts of an ancient Buddhist ...