Embrace the beauty and simplicity of grass in Japanese zen garden design. Discover how these elegant elements can create ...

Shurei Sasai, a Buddhist monk from Japan, is working in India for the restoration of Buddhism, which claims that all people are equal. The 89-year-old has been devoting his life to freeing people ...

This is the hilarious moment a Buddhist monk received fake eyebrows for a face scan to work in Thailand. The monk Phra Lod, ...

Buddhism was first established in Japan in the 6th century CE. Most of the Japanese Buddhists belong to new schools of Buddhism which were established in the Kamakura period (1185－1333). During the ...

Dec. 8 marks the celebration of Bodhi Day in Japanese Buddhism. Bodhi means enlightenment or awakening in Sanskrit. It commemorates the enlightenment of Siddhartha Gautama, who became the Buddha.

This series was co-written by Kaitlyn Ugoretz, scholar of Japanese religion and new media.

SEOUL--A South Korean deejay dressed as a Buddhist monk bounced up and down on stage while playing electronic music and shouting: “This too shall pass!” The performance brought cheers from a ...

Reading the detailed news article under the title ‘First Sri Lankan Buddhist monk in 105 years joins Oxford for MPhil in ...

A satellite of the massive Kuonji temple complex, the spiritual center of the Nichiren Shu sect of Japanese Buddhism, Kakurinbo was founded more than 550 years ago to accommodate visiting priests ...

Born in the town of Ibigawa in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, Yokoyama went to Manchuria in 1943, a region in present-day northeast China, when he was 18 years old. He worked as a Buddhist monk ...