Japan’s unique relationship to faith is on full display during the final week of the year: People celebrate Christmas with an exchange of presents, ring Buddhist temple bells on New Year’s Eve ...
There are around 48 Buddhist monuments in the Horyu-ji area, in Nara Prefecture. Several date from the late 7th or early 8th century, making them some of the oldest surviving wooden buildings in the ...
A set of documents from more than a thousand years ago that depict the history of cultural exchanges between Japan and China will ... approved the archives of the Buddhist monk Enchin (814-891 ...
According to UNESCO's website, the monuments, which include Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines, "provide a vivid picture of life in the Japanese capital in the eighth century, a period of ...