Probe reveals believers painted on ancient Buddha sculptures

The Sichuan Provincial Bureau of Cultural Heritage recently said that it had inspected two ancient stone carvings of Buddha in response to an online outcry about their condition.

And it found that both the carvings had been painted by local Buddhist believers in the 1990s.

On Aug 4, a netizen who went to see the two carvings in Anyue county and Guang'an city in Sichuan complained about their condition.