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China seeks 'stolen' ancient Buddha statue
China Seeks \'Stolen\' Ancient Buddha Statue. China has initiated procedures to retrieve a thousand-year-old Buddha statue from possession of a Dutch art collector, saying the relic was the one \"stolen\" from an ancient Chinese temple two decades ago.
Beijing: China has initiated procedures to retrieve a thousand-year-old Buddha statue from possession of a Dutch art collector, saying the relic was the one "stolen" from an ancient Chinese temple two decades ago.
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The State Administration of Cultural Heritage said the Buddha statue containing a mummified monk, which went missing in 1995 from a temple in Fujian province, in southeast coast of China, matches the one with the Dutch collector.
"There are five proofs of evidence which show that the Buddha statue is the relic stolen in 1995 from a Chinese ancestral temple in Fujian province's Yangchun village," a spokesman of the Da Tian Museum in Fujian was quoted by the China Daily.
On March 23, the collector issued a statement saying the statue was obtained in 1994 from "a sincere Chinese friend in the art circles." The statue was shipped to the collector's residence in Amsterdam from a workshop in Hong Kong in 1995, the same year a Buddha relic was reported stolen in China, state-run China Daily reported on Tuesday.
