Severe weather spawns Golden Age of art The Buddha statue unearthed recently in North Korea was sculpted during the Golden Age of Buddhism, which emerged out of an era marked by extreme climate ...

Previously it was just one of the many Buddha statues exhibited in the Buddhist art section on the third floor of the National Museum of Korea. About 250 centimeters tall, the Buddha sitting in ...

With its eyes closed in eternal prayer, a 1.7-meter-tall statue of a Buddha was unearthed by the Korean Archaeology Institute of the Academy of Social Sciences and the National Authority for the ...

Andong, South Korea - At South Korea’s thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a fire-retardant blanket.

An ancient Buddha statue measuring 1.7 meters in height was unearthed at an archaeological site in Yakjon-ri, South Pyongan Province, North Korea, according to Popular Mechanics.

Jerusalem Post Archaeology Archaeology Around the World 1,000-year-old Buddha statue discovered in North Korea An imposing statue of Amitābha Buddha has been unearthed at Yakjon-ri site, with ...