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Going ‘home’: Contested Buddha statue to return to Japan
A 14th-century Buddhist statue will travel from here to Japan on May 10 after Korea’s Supreme Court ruled it should be ...
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Return of Buddhist statue to Japan
In 2023, South Korea's Supreme Court ordered Buseok Temple in Seosan, 98 kilometers southwest of Seoul, to return the ...
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Missing torso of Buddha’s head discovered, solves century-old puzzle
Archaeologists discovered a torso that unexpectedly matched an iconic Buddha head ... to the same statue. Optical electronic ...
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Archaeologists Unearth the Torso of a Rare Buddha Statue—Nearly 100 Years After They Found Its Head
For nearly a century, the head of a Buddha statue has been kept in the collections of the National Museum of Cambodia. Its body, however, was missing. But last month, archaeologists at Cambodia ...
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After 98 Years, Archaeologists Found the Missing Torso of an Ancient Buddha Statue
a team of archaeologists discovered the head (and only the head) of a Buddha statue. They then brought their find—which has been dated to the 12 th or 13 th century—to Cambodia’s National ...
Stone head of Buddha statue found in Cambodia in 1927. Now, rest of body discovered
head and body — together and reconstruct the full statue, according to the release. Archaeologists did not give an exact age ...