enshrining sacred relics of the Buddha. However, as Buddhism spread to the Han Dynasty (202 B.C. to 220 A.D.), existing ...

The trio in their 30s ― Naka Ai, Imura Kasumi, and Morisaki Reiko, ― make up Sanjoudou, a wooden Buddha restoration workshop. They set it up seven years ago to help protect Japan's cultural ...

Hours later much of the temple burned down in one of the deadliest wildfires to hit South Korea – but the Buddha and the wooden hall it was in survived. All across the country’s southeast ...