in the more famous temples there are precious metals and even statues that are made of solid gold and adorned with precious stones. In the smaller temples they tend to be fake and I would imagine the things that re kept outdoors are always fake. It seems inconceivable that someone would steal from a temple but it would happen if something that valuable was just kept out in the open.
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That makes sense. Thanks for the explanation!
there is the story of this one statue that was hundreds of years ago covered in ceramic in order to prevent the Burmese from stealing it, many years later it was discovered (and i don't know if this was because of scientific methods or if someone just dropped it) that the interior was a rather gigantic solid gold Buddha. Hiding in plain sight!