Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, Mandapa, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve, offers an incomparable guest experience steeped ...

Temples and shrines offer travelers the opportunity to experience local culture in a peaceful atmosphere filled with ...

As Mustang’s prosperity waned, the nunnery slowly fell into disrepair. We stepped through a low door into the main hall, where a colossal, two-story statue of the Maitreya Buddha dominated the room.

Jiji SHARE/SAVE May 12, 2025 Tsushima, Nagasaki Pref. – A Buddha statue stolen in 2012 and taken to South Korea was returned to a temple on Tsushima, an island in Nagasaki Prefecture, on Monday.

Seoul – 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 ...

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 ...

The 32-meter-tall Amitabha Buddha statue is Vietnam’s largest green stone Buddha. The sacred statue is harmoniously designed with a triple-layer lotus pedestal. The statue features traditional ...

10. Gangoji Temple The Gangoji Temple is believed to be the oldest Buddhist temple in Japan, estimated to be 1,300 years old. According to Japan Travel, it was built in the 7th century upon the order ...

The pagoda houses over 100 ancient terracotta statues and numerous valuable artifacts such as Buddha statues, stone incense burners, stone stupas, bronze bells, and wooden altars. Tat Vien Village in ...

In a clearing of the tropical forest near the entrance to Ta Som, an 800-year-old temple at Angkor, in northwest Cambodia, two architects are having a friendly argument. For the umpteenth time ...

The time-travel story depicts a global “golden age” under an ethnic-Han Chinese-dominated Asia. This vision, Wang adds, is fundamentally little different to Japan’s pan-Asianism of 90 years ago.

Apsara National Authority via AP This February 2025 image shows a headless statue excavated by archaeologists at the Angkor temple complex in Cambodia’s Siem Reap province. The Associated Press 13:31 ...