A lawsuit has been filed in the Netherlands for the repatriation of a 1000-year- old Buddhist mummy stolen from Yangchun village in China's southeast province of Fujian.
Abbot Hsing Yun, one of Taiwan's most influential monks, donated a Buddha head statue to Chinese mainland in Beijing on Feb 26, 2016.
For some 1,500 years, the 0.47-meter-tall Buddha at Youju Temple Tower in north China's Hebei Province brought a tinge of the North Qi dynasty to the temple.
The Dutch collector's three conditions for the repatriation of the 1,000-year old Chinese Mummy Buddha, which raised serious questioning over his sincerity, have been rejected by the Chinese authorities except the one on cooperation for researches, Xinhua learnt from well-informed sources.
Looted Cambodian ancient statue returns home after over 3 decades in U.S. museum
The Dutch private collector who has the "mummy Buddha" statue in possession said he is willing to give it back to the Chinese village if it is proved to be stolen from there.
New evidence supports the theory that a 1,000-year-old Buddha statue with a mummified monk inside, now owned by a Dutch private collector, was stolen from China, a government official said Tuesday.
The Hamas authorities in Gaza have kept a Bronze sculpture believed to be a statue of the Greek God " Apollo" in a secret location since a Palestinian fisherman found it last August buried under waters in a central Gaza beach, Hamas officials said Sunday.
The anti-apartheid icon Mandela's statue will be erected at the Presidency next week, the South African government announced on Thursday.
Cambodia on Tuesday marked the first anniversary of the death of the nation's most revered King Father Norodom Sihanouk by paying homage to his newly-built statue and an elaborate Buddhist ceremony.
Cambodia held a traditional ceremony on Wednesday to begin the construction of a commemorative copper statue of the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk near the capital's Independence Monument.
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