The Buddhist Bell of the Yuan Dynasty (1279- 1368) is 2.12 meters in height, 1.3 meters in rim diameter and 2,048 kilograrns in weight. Cast with bronze alloy, it contains 71 percent of copper ...

Astonishingly the bell was cast entirely with Buddhist sutras and incantations in Han and Sanskrit languages. This is an unequalled Buddhist bell. Some historical records regard the bell as the ...

A tucked away Buddhist center in the north part of Brevard County is home to some of the state's largest Buddhist statues.

they will ring the bell 108 times, the number of worldly desires that humans have according to the teachings of Buddhism. The temple has restricted visitors on New Year’s Eve to 1,000 people ...

The city of Takaoka has long been known for its copper ware made into Buddhist statues and ornaments ... These desires are supposedly removed when the bell is struck 108 times.

The sounding of the 2,100-pound bell, from a temple in Tajima Province and now part of the museum’s permanent collection, was overseen by Zen Buddhist priest Gengo Akiba Roshi, the museum said.