TACOMA — It would have taken a forklift to move the 3,000-pound copper bell stolen recently from a Vietnamese Buddhist temple here. But the bell and its hand-carved wooden frame — together 12 ...

IZUMOZAKI, Niigata Prefecture--A centuries-old hanging bell that escaped being melted down for Japan’s failed war effort in the 1940s is finally back where it belongs.

The Ancient Bell Temple Museum is the only one of its kind in China. The museum has on display 700 or more bells, ... It has no inscriptions, but is engraved with 22 dragons in diverse styles.

The largest temple bell in the state, weighing more than 1.5 tonnes, will be ready to ring in two months from the premises of Ugrakaliamman Temple at Thennur near Trichy. ERODE: The largest temple ...