Koyasan (高野山) is one of Japan’s most significant places when it comes to Buddhism, and a beautiful place to visit. From ...

Two sets of historic Buddhist ... monk used to gain access for travel around China. The set is considered extremely important in the context of the history of cultural exchanges between Japan ...

Shurei Sasai has been devoting his life to freeing people from discrimination based on the Indian caste system for more than ...

Deep in the mountains of northern Wakayama Prefecture, nestled in stately tall trees, sits one of the most important Buddhist ...

In the Theravada form of Buddhism followed in Southeast Asia, Gautama’s enlightenment is commemorated along with his birth ...

Human rights activists accused Vietnam of infringing freedom of religion after a court handed jail sentences this week to ...

But that wasn't always the case. The legendary Sohei warrior monks of medieval Japan were quite the opposite of the image 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 ...

The monk was stopped by police last September while on his way to a Buddhist memorial service in Japan's Fukui province, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported. The article was only published in December ...

"In Japan, it is not common for people to ... After he became a monk, Nishimura told him Buddhism teaches that being LGBTQ+ is not an issue and that it is all right to be true to oneself and ...

(Bloomberg) -- ESG investing is so popular in Japan that even Buddhist monks are getting into it. One of the new investors is Tokuunin, a Zen Buddhist temple in central Tokyo. The religious group ...

Buddhist monks are using their voices to reach out ... Such messages are not only delivered online. Temples in Japan usually have bulletin boards around their gates, not only to announce the ...