Protection and preservation. The trio in their 30s ― Naka Ai, Imura Kasumi, and Morisaki Reiko, ― make up Sanjoudou, a wooden Buddha restoration workshop.

The tallest surviving wooden pagoda today is the Sakyamuni pagoda of Fogong Temple, standing at 67 meters in Shanxi Province.

Previously, we shared the story of the Prinkipo orphanage, the largest wooden building in Europe which, however, is small compared to the Daibutsu-den or Great Buddha Hall, considered the largest ...

A restored sandstone Buddha foot statue and six ancient wooden Buddha statues are on display at the Preah Norodom Sihanouk-Angkor Museum in Cambodia's northwestern Siem Reap province, the Apsara ...

Shocking footage shows the moment a 130ft-high wooden Buddha was engulfed in flames and burnt to the ground in China. Video shows fire raging at the Great Buddha Temple in Shandan, north-west ...

A Chinese statue of a sitting Buddha has revealed a hidden surprise: Inside, scientists found the mummified remains of a monk who lived nearly 1,000 years ago.. The mummy may have once been a ...

A restored sandstone Buddha foot statue and six ancient wooden Buddha statues are on display at the Preah Norodom Sihanouk-Angkor Museum in Cambodia’s northwestern Siem Reap province, the Apsara ...

The "Hiroshima Daibutsu" wooden statue, as it's affectionately called, was installed at a temple near ground zero in 1950 to pray for the repose of the souls of victims of the Aug. 6, 1945 atomic ...