Over the past seven years, the women have worked on more than 70 wooden Buddha statues throughout Japan. Examples of Sanjoudou's restoration work The restoration process is labor-intensive and ...

Over the centuries, the cultural treasures grew in number. The most remarkable is the Giant Buddha of Leshan, carved out of a hillside in the 8th century and looking down on the confluence of three ...

The Hiroshima Daibutsu (big Buddha statue) is currently enshrined ... 67 years to go on public display in July. It is a gilded wooden statue about four meters tall and believed to have been ...

The Great Buddha at Leshan This colossal statue was carved on a cliff on Soaring ... chamber is furnished with a huge, old-fashioned wooden bed and a long, narrow table with some antique china ...