Later with the fall of the Sukhothai empire and the emergence of the Ayutthaya empire, the statue was shifted to Ayutthaya. The plastering was probably done to conceal the statue’s identity from the ...

HIROSHIMA--A large, ancient statue of Buddha ... The Hiroshima Daibutsu (big Buddha statue) is currently enshrined at Gokurakuji temple in Ando, Nara Prefecture, and will be temporarily sent ...