Long-running case comes under spotlight at legal forum
In March 2015, a news report about a Buddhist statue on display at the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest caused a big stir in China.
Source: chinadaily.com.cn
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Top court hails legal efforts to retrieve relics
Chinese courts have successfully stepped up efforts in recent years to formulate judicial rules to assist the recovery of the nation's cultural treasures from overseas, an official from the country's top court said on Tuesday.
Source: chinadaily.com.cn
The body in the Buddha
Is the mummified monk who disappeared from a Chinese village 22 years ago the body in the Buddha that turned up unexpectedly in Amsterdam? John Hooper and Ted Plafker investigate | 1843 magazine
Source: economist.com
Dutch collector ordered to return Buddha statue
A Dutch collector who says he bought the Zhang Gong Patriarch — an ancient Buddha statue containing the mummified remains of a famous monk — has been ordered to return the stolen relic to its original owners, two villages in Fujian province.
Source: ecns.cn
Chinese court orders Dutch collector to return smuggled 1,000-year-old mummified Buddha statue
Fujian High People’s Court in East China’s Fujian Province on Tuesday issued a public verdict on the case of Zhanggong Zushi, the 1,000-year-old Buddha statue with the remains of a mummified monk inside, which upheld the ruling of first instance that Dutch appealer Oscar Van Overeem should return the statue, indicating the seven-year-long litigation has come to an end.
Source: globaltimes.cn