Benmou Suzuki's dilapidated 420-year-old temple, located deep in the forest near a tiny Japanese mountain village, hardly ...

He describes how “in the Buddhist newpaper Yamato-Simbun, two articles are printed daily with the most impudent lies and slander against the mission and Orthodox Christians… We never answer these ...

Osho Taigu will collaborate with the Pure Land Foundation in London to advocate for the adoption of Buddhist-inspired ...

TACOMA, Washington, March 18. -- Some of the leaders of religious thought in Japan are endeavoring to choose between Buddhism, Shintoism, and Christianity as the future religion of the empire.

Located in Kansai, Nara is considered to be the oldest city in Japan. It was the country's first permanent capital and played ...

It’s 20 years since Japan’s most popular pilgrimage route was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list — and its spiritual ...

Two sets of historic Buddhist documents ... important in the context of the history of cultural exchanges between Japan and China as well as for learning about legal matters in Tang Dynasty ...

During the Kofun period, Japan was greatly influenced by Chinese – and to some extent by Korean – culture. Around the middle of the 6th century, Buddhism was introduced (via Korea), and it was during ...

Dr Amanda Foreman discusses how Shinto merged with Buddhism in Japan and makes particular reference to the centrality of women within Shinto beliefs. Not only are women able to take practical ...

11, edited by Oren Hanner. Hamburg: Numata Center for Buddhist Studies, 2020. “Creative Nothingness: Dada as Art, Politics and Religion in Interwar Japan.” Anarchism, a special issue of ...

Of the tens of thousands of Japanese converted to Orthodoxy thanks to his labors, a significant portion were former Buddhists, and amongst his assistants were former Buddhist monks (Bhikkhu), for ...