Month: February 2017

  • Buddha statue returns to Peshawar Museum after being displayed in Switzerland

    Buddha statue returns to Peshawar Museum after being displayed in Switzerland

    PESHAWAR: The 2,000 years old statue of Buddha that had been put on display at an exhibition in Switzerland has been returned to the Peshawar Museum after around three months, an official said on Sunday. Nawazuddin, spokesperson for Directorate of Archeology and Museum, said that the statue was out of Peshawar Museum for around 100 […]

  • Ottawa monastery’s Buddha statue vandalized for the third time

    Ottawa monastery’s Buddha statue vandalized for the third time

    Members of a Heron Road Buddhist community say they are fearful after a statue of the Buddha was vandalized for the third time. A surveillance camera caught a vandal hitting the statue with a piece of wood early Wednesday morning, the monastery’s chief incumbent monk Rev. Nugegalayaye Jinananda Thero said. On the wood was written […]