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. Hours later much of the temple ...

At South Korea's thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a ...

Photo: 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 temple burned down in one ...

(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 ...

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 temple burned down in one of the ...

However, officials from the Korea Heritage Service confirmed that some of the temple’s cultural treasures, including a stone Buddha statue, were rescued before the flames consumed the wooden ...

An ancient Buddhist temple complex is among the structures burned in some of the worst wildfires ever to hit South Korea.

ANDONG, South Korea (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 temple ...

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 ...

Wildfires raging in South Korea doubled in size today ... Heritage officials said some of the site’s national treasures, including an eighth-century stone Buddha statue, were removed before the flames ...

The Buddha measures 151 feet long and is 50 meters tall, making it the largest reclining Buddha statue in Thailand. The complex also houses the most Buddha's in all of Thailand. Along with the ...

Unprecedented wildfires ripping through South Korea’s southern regions have ... to move the temple's third “treasure,” a stone Buddha statue reportedly built in the 8th century, to a safe ...