The mummified remains of a monk have been revealed inside a nearly 1,000-year old Chinese statue of a Buddha. The mummy inside the gold-painted papier-mâché statue is believed to be that of ...

in an ultra-religious move only practised by a few THIS is the mummified remains of a Buddhist monk who meditated to death, encased inside a 1,000-year-old ancient statue. Scientists scanned the ...

In 2015, a C.T. scan revealed the mummified remains of a monk inside a thousand-year-old Buddha statue. Researchers brought the statue from the Drents Museum in the Netherlands to the Meander ...

BANGKOK: A viral video of two boys dancing and touching a revered monk’s statue during Songkran sparked outrage on Thai social media and drew nearly 200 comments. Thai social media users have ...

NOBEOKA, Miyazaki -- One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi temple in this southwestern Japan city was purified ...

who said after holding his ears and seeking forgiveness from the monk, “Unknowingly, I had commented about guru-ji, but after hearing his ‘kadve pravachan’, I found them sweet and close to ...

Mummified remains of a monk have been found encased in a Buddha statue dating back to the 11th or 12th Century. Erik Bruijn, an Buddhism expert, led the study that determined the mummy was of ...