“The records are evidence of how a Japanese Buddhist sect ventured into the rest of Asia during the war,” said Osawa, who is well-versed in the activities of Buddhist sects in Southeast Asi ...

one of the largest sects of Buddhism in Japan. While Javellana-Hirano's position in the temple appears as a station of leadership in her religious community, she does not see it that way.

They each went on to found a new Japanese Buddhist sect, Tendai and Shingon, respectively. With Emperor Kammu’s support, each established a major religious temple. Tendai’s principal temple was (and ...

[10] The hierarch describes the more important schools of Japanese Buddhism. The first of them he determines as the school of Zen, which, “as a sect that came from China, it likes to boast of its ...

One set of documents concerns Tokyo’s Zojoji temple, the head temple of the Jodo Sect of Buddhism ... the history of cultural exchanges between Japan and China as well as for learning about ...

The following article on the religion founded by Buddha and the numerous sects that have ... Chinese and Japanese. The personages mentioned above are all purely Buddhist in origin, but pre ...

“Zen” as an adjective is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as “peaceful and calm.” The word comes from a Japanese Buddhist ...

Daisaku Ikeda, a former leader of Japan's influential Buddhist group Soka Gakkai, has died at the age of 95. Over decades Ikeda expanded the organisation's international following and forged links ...

Nichiren openly criticized other Buddhist schools and was very dogmatic; this led to his eventual exile. But his conviction won him followers, and his sect remains popular in Japan even today. Zen ...