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 multi-level, pagoda-like wooden facade, built to protect the ... by individuals involved in Silk Road trade. For them, carving a grotto was an act of devotion — an offering to the Buddha in hopes ...

enshrining sacred relics of the Buddha. However, as Buddhism spread to the Han Dynasty (202 B.C. to 220 A.D.), existing ...