Nestled on Nui Lon mountain, Chon Khong Zen Monastery enchants travelers with its breathtaking views and colossal gold-plated ...

“It just seems to be a nexus where a lot of people connect,” said Daniel Choi, who teaches writing at Princeton and has been meditating in front of the Buddha statue since 2015. “It definitely feels ...

South Korea’s devastating wildfires have destroyed much of Gounsa Temple, but a giant Buddha statue miraculously withstood ...

Though sandstone succumbs easily to the chisel, it erodes quickly in rain. The survival of this Buddha and its grottoes, like ...

When he and Kazumi Minowa, 51, first took on the annual duty, “we had no idea how to clean the statue and faced many difficulties, like our bodies being rolled and blown around by the wind ...

(Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP) 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 ...

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