A 69-year-old Buddhist monk has been found brutally murdered at a monastery in Kiralogama, within the Eppawala Police Division. According to police, a complaint was received at the Eppawala Police ...

NOBEOKA, Miyazaki -- One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously ... Genyu Nonaka, the 69-year-old chief priest, expressed high hopes, saying, "I want ...

Unprecedented wildfires ripping through South Korea’s southern regions have destroyed large parts of an ancient Buddhist ...

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A devastating wildfire in South Korea has destroyed a thousand-year-old Buddhist temple, Unramsa, as flames swept across Cheondeungsan Mountain ... Story continues below this ad Senior monk Doryun, ...

The inferno has destroyed the historic Gounsa Temple and is bearing down on two UNESCO World Heritage sites in Andong city.

The authorities said that thousands of buildings had been damaged, including about 150 mosques and pagodas.

Old grievance, new trigger Barely 2km (1.2 miles ... But things came to a head last month. On February 27, more than two dozen Buddhist monks sitting on a hunger strike for 14 days on the temple ...

A thousand-year-old Buddhist temple was reduced to ashes after South Korea’s wildfire engulfed ... “I went there this morning and found they’ve been reduced to heaps of ashes," said Doryun, a senior ...