Chinese court orders return of stolen Buddha statue from Dutch collector

STORY: Chinese court orders return of stolen Buddha statue from Dutch collector DATELINE: July 19, 2022 LENGTH: 0:02:58 LOCATION: SANMING, China CATEGORY: LAW/CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the stolen Buddha statue 2. STANDUP (English): HONG YAN, Xinhua correspondent 3. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LIN WENYU, Yangchun villager 4. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LIN WENQING, Yangchun villager STORYLINE: STANDUP 1 (English): HONG YAN, Xinhua correspondent "On Tuesday, a court in east China's Fujian Province ruled in favor of local villagers demanding the return of a stolen Buddha statue from a Dutch collector." This sculpture was CT scanned in 2013 and shown to contain the mummified body of a Song Dynasty (960-1279) Buddhist monk called Zhanggong Zushi. It had been housed in Puzhao Temple, co-owned by Yangchun Village and Dongpu Village in Datian County in Sanming. STANDUP 2 (English): HONG YAN, Xinhua correspondent "Here is the hall where the mummified body of the Buddhist monk had been worshipped by villagers for more tha