Both were built around 750 and are home to some of the finest Buddhist sculpture in the world.

Korean Buddhist sculpture is one of the major areas of Korean art.

One area of Korean art where this is decidedly not the case is in Korean Buddhist sculpture.

Korean Buddhist sculpture are relatively rare.

A major monument of Korean Buddhist sculpture, National Treasure no. 78, is usually dated to the late 6th century.

Such exchanges, both official and unofficial, were integral in establishing early Japanese Buddhist sculpture.

In the earliest Buddhist sculpture, the Buddha was never represented by a human figure.

The work marks a watershed in the periodization of Japanese Buddhist sculpture.

Pilak (Buddhist sculpture of 7th & 8th century)

But it is Buddhist sculpture that takes the prize, its power distilled in three stellar works.