KYOTO, Japan — In this ancient capital and cradle of Japan’s religious heritage, the Buddhist priest faithfully chants his sutras. He honors the spirits of ancestors and presides over funerals. He ...

The two objects in this exhibition exemplify the birth of Buddhism in Japan. In 552, the Korean kingdom of Baekje sent the Japanese court sacred texts (sutras) and a gilt bronze sculpture, thought to ...

Buddhism in Japan today is made up of many different sects or schools, each with its own set of teachings, normally drawing on traditions and doctrines associated with a particular set of sutras. Most ...

As we saw in the previous installment of this series, eighth-century Japan finally succeeded in importing the three elements (Buddhist images, the “Dharma,” or law, and the “sangha,” or community of ...

Each year, monks from Shinguji, a temple in the town of Yao, Osaka Prefecture that was founded in the late 17th century, hold a massive funeral service. Last year’s ceremony was to celebrate and put ...

All major religions undergo change in their spread. That has definitely been the case with Buddhism in its spread north through China and Korea into Japan. Buddhism came to Japan late, almost 1,000 ...

LONGMONT — The Longmont Buddhist Temple’s ornate shrine now displays images of two of the faith’s most instrumental teachers. Two hand-painted scrolls, which hang on either side of the shrine, depict ...

A 400-year-old Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, is using a $1 million humanoid to reach a younger generation, but foreigners are repulsed by it. The Kodaji Temple, in a partnership with the robotics ...

Thich Tam Tri, head monk of the Dai An Pagoda in Japan's Saitama, provided shelter for thousands of Vietnamese during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami and the Covid-19 pandemic. The youngest of nine ...