Villagers request the return of mummified buddha statue

he signatures and finger prints of villagers from Yangchun Village, southeast China's Fujian Province, requesting the return of their lost Mummified Buddha statue. [Photo: CNTV]

The mummified Buddha statue is in possession of a Dutch private collector. [Photo: CNTV]

Villagers from Yangchun Village, southeast China's Fujian Province, have written a letter to the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, requesting the return of their lost mummified Buddha statue.

The statue, which was on display in Hungary, is now in possession of a Dutch private collector.

The villagers maintain that the statue containing the mummified remains of a Buddhist monk stolen from their village in 1995.

According to the Cultural Relic Bureau in Fujian, experts have also confirmed that the mummified Buddha statue was a relic stolen from the village.

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