KYOTO--Inspired by a priest’s belief that Buddhist practices should evolve, the bodhisattva of compassion and mercy has manifested himself as a robot at a temple here. The android edition of ...

Tsubosakadera temple in Takatori, Nara Prefecture, is known as a place where people can come to pray for eye diseases to be ...

The monthly anniversary of a parishioner's death. 03:03 Reciting sutras on these dates at the family home is a standard part of a priest's job.

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 ...

The main training center for Shingon Esoteric Buddhism with its iconic five-story pagoda, the key landmark of Kyoto's scenery. The temple is known as ... The five-story pagoda, Japan's tallest wooden ...

Every day, hundreds of people visit Ryoanji Temple to see its Zen rock garden – which is probably the most famous of its kind in Japan. Located in Kyoto's northern outskirts, the temple was ...