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

Bhutan, the Himalayan kingdom that brought the world the concept of gross national happiness, is set to build a "mindfulness ...

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.

Ace Japanese film director Kore-eda Hirokazu is in advanced post ... Like the “asura,” demigods in Buddhist cosmology, these ...

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 ...

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

UNESCO’s executive board on May 24 approved the archives of the Buddhist monk Enchin (814-891 ... of the history of cultural exchanges between Japan and China. They are also important for ...

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 ...