BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A Buddha statue from China that conceals the remains of a monk who turned himself into a mummy almost a millennium ago is the centerpiece of an exhibition in Budapest. Visitors to ...

Peace comes from within, or so popular Buddhist quotes would have you believe. If that’s the case, this must be one peaceful monk. Scientists learned last week that a 1,000-year-old statue of Buddha ...

The Cultural Relic Bureau in Fujian province launched an investigation and found photos and historical records suggesting the statue belonged to a village temple where it was worshiped as an ancestor.

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