GIFU –
A temple in Yamagata, Gifu Prefecture, reported the theft of 11 Buddhist statues and different gadgets on the morning of July 6, prompting police to research the case as a housebreaking.
The theft was reported shortly after 7 a.m. by the 42-year-old chief priest of Dosenji Temple in Takatomi, Yamagata, who referred to as emergency providers and stated, “The Buddhist statues inside the main hall have been stolen.”
According to police and different officers, the lacking gadgets embrace one Jizo Bodhisattva statue measuring about 25 centimeters in peak, 10 statues of the Ten Kings measuring about 15 centimeters every, and a picket mirror.
The statues had been enshrined within the temple’s important corridor, which is normally left open in the course of the day and locked at round 9 p.m. The priest seen the statues have been lacking when he got here to the primary corridor within the morning to exchange choices.
Police are investigating the incident as a theft.
Source: CBC