KYOTO - On a late September day, after the summer heat had subsided, as evening approached and the cicadas stopped buzzing, ...

A Buddhist priest who was drafted by the Japanese military and endured horrendous conditions, including witnessing the deaths of many compatriots, while detained in a Soviet internment camp near the ...

Last year, Buddhist scholars from 11 countries, including Japan, South Korea, Sri Lanka and Nepal, toured key Buddhist sites in India from October 25 to November 3 and engaged with experts to ...

Thought-provoking posts on social media by abbot attract big online following, actual visits to Buddhist temple.

The blue number 10 jersey was placed for a few seconds on a Buddha statue in the Otagi Nenbutsu-ji temple, in the Japanese ...

Japan’s fourth largest and most scenic island. Winding through varied landscapes, many of which seem out of a Hiroshige woodblock print, travellers follow in the footsteps of influential ...

South Korea has yet to return an ancient Buddhist statue one year after the country's Supreme Court ruled that it belongs to a Japanese temple. The Japanese government is said to have made ...

Telling the story of a small, subsistence farming mountain community whose few remaining members keep drifting away to nearby ...

Mindfulness, or shamatha, is a subdiscipline of meditation. It is, in part, an exercise in nonattachment. Plot twist: ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s ruling party and its junior partner lost their majority in Sunday’s parliamentary ...