BEIJING: A stone Buddha head stolen from one of the statues in north China’s Tianlongshan Grottoes almost a century ago has been retrieved, the National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA) said.

The Buddha head, which was brought back from Japan on December 12, is the 100th relic retrieved by China from overseas in 2020, according to the NCHA.

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