While some are busy crafting beautiful tablescapes and delicious meals, others of us are scouring the internet for the very best deals to shop before our turkeys are even carved. Lucky for us ...
Carved into a cliff across the river from the temple Ōnodera in Nara Prefecture stands the largest rock carving of Buddha in Japan. Since the beginning of the thirteenth century, this remarkable ...
Walk for eight minutes from the Great Buddha and you’ll reach Hasedera Temple, another destination that should be on your Kamakura itinerary. This Jodo-sect temple is home to Japan’s tallest wooden ...
A worker carving a marble Buddha statue in Mandalay. — AFP The owner of another workshop, who did not want to be named, said his associates were recently arrested when taking a shipment of ...
MANDALAY: Sculptor Aung Naing Lin has spent decades carving Buddha statues to help guide Myanmar's faithful -- but getting the marble he needs from rebel-held quarries in the midst of civil war is ...
A worker carving a marble Buddha statue in Mandalay (Photo: Sai Aung Main/AFP) Sculptor Aung Naing Lin has spent decades carving Buddha statues to help guide Myanmar’s faithful—but getting the marble ...
to double-boiled soups like Buddha Jumping Over the Wall. The restaurant features a grand interior, which includes a hand-carved jade corridor and silkscreens with floral embroidery; making it the ...
Erosion has eaten away at the work, adding to the challenge of studying them A series of camel sculptures carved into rock faces in Saudi Arabia are likely to be the oldest large-scale animal ...