The Dutch private collector who now owns the 1,000-year-old Buddha statue with a mummified monk inside is willing to return the relic to China, if the statue is proven to be stolen from China, according to Amsterdam-based newspaper NRC Handelsblad.

According to the report, the current owner, who works as an architect in Amsterdam, purchased the statue in 1995, the same year as Buddha statue was reported to be stolen from a temple in Yangchun village in east China's Fujian province.

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