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A statue of a sitting Buddha that made its way from a temple in China to a market in the Netherlands revealed an extraordinary secret – a 1,000-year-old mummified monk. The mummy was discovered ...
A group of Chinese villagers have travelled to the Netherlands ... A CT scan in February, 2015, revealed that the golden statue concealed the remains of a mummified monk. Controversy about the ...
When you think of all the landmarks around Green Country, chances are Tulsa’s Golden Driller comes to mind. But have you ever heard how that iconic statue came to life in midtown? Oklahoma ...
Reuters/Baz Ratner In scenes reminiscent of the toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue in Baghdad, Israelis in liberal Tel Aviv toppled a golden ... country's leader, the Associated Press has reported.
Its owner suspected it might contain something inside and took it to Utrecht University to have ... monk's death, followed by several layers of enamel and finally golden paint, to make the statue ...
Veena Nair / Alamy Stock Photo Late last month, India unveiled a gargantuan statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the country ... a Hindu monk and chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, who has been ...
There is now a 69-foot statue of ... riding a golden horse atop a cliff of white marble in the center of town, The Guardian reports. Berdymukhamedov, who has run the country since 2006 as a ...
The wooden statue of the Abingdon monk ... Country in Bloom competition in 2002. However, when the company ceased trading in 2013 "nobody looked after him and it's been an issue as to who has ...
Inside the statue, which has a history of more than a thousand years, sits the mummified remains of a monk in the state of meditation, who was believed to be the Buddhist master Liuquan of the ...
In Thailand, there are more than 35 million drivers on the road. As a Buddhist country, 76% of Thai drivers have a monk statue placed on their cars' dashboard, because they believe that monk statues, ...
The unusual contents of the statue were ... tests have revealed that an ancient Buddhist statue contains the perfectly preserved remains of a 1,000-year-old mummified monk, in what is believed ...