Shikoku has a quiet, but profound presence in Japan's archipelago. It wears its heart on its sleeve, inviting you to explore ...

Gunma Prefecture--Benmou Suzuki’s dilapidated 420-year-old temple, located deep in the forest near a tiny Japanese mountain village, hardly looks like prized real estate. Yet the monk was ...

The monks were willing to lay down their lives in order to fight for what they believed in. Enryaku-jii was the most ...

As the famous setting of countless Kung Fu movies, the original Shaolin Temple of China was brought back from near-destruction by a Jet Li movie.

Ven. Wonu, chief monk at Buseok Temple in Seosan on South Korea's western coast, speaks at the National Research Institute of ...

Pilgrimages have been part of Japanese culture for over a thousand years. The UNESCO-listed Kumano Kodo is legendary among ...

One of the most famous temples in Japan, Byodo-in appears on on the 10 ... of trauma since opening as a training center for Buddhist monks. Inside one of the longest wooden buildings in the ...

But things are different outside Japan," the monk said. "I hear that there are ... Nishimura grew up at a Tokyo temple of the Jodo sect of Buddhism. After graduating from high school, he opted ...

SWAT: Junsei Terasawa, a prominent Buddhist monk from Japan, on Sunday emphasised the profound historical and cultural connections between the ancient region of Gandhara and Japan, particularly in ...

He says monks want to help people to ease anxiety and pain, and to recover peace of mind in the current circumstances. Such messages are not only delivered online. Temples in Japan usually have ...