Japanese funerals follow a structured sequence rooted in Buddhist customs: Held the night before the funeral, the wake is a gathering of close family and friends. A Buddhist priest chants sutras, and ...

Daisaku Ikeda, who headed Soka Gakkai, a Japanese Buddhist organization, that includes famed musician Herbie Hancock and other celebrities in its fold, has died at 95, the Japanese religious ...

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 ...

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He prostrates himself before the altar before breaking into a haunting ... deep time—in Akita prefecture, in Japan's Tohoku region. But Dairyuji is also the vibrant temple-home of the 38th ...

the perceived unreality of this transient dreamlike soap-bubble world in which we are born to no purpose and die for no reason — took Buddhist vows, shaved their heads, donned drab monkish or ...

Oil refiners in India — eager to keep importing cheap crude from Russia — are working with merchants, shippers and other middlemen to rebuild supply chains as tougher U.S. sanctions come into ...

Koyasan is a revered Buddhist temple complex built on a towering mountain. Through rituals and meditation, our explorer seeks to discover the Buddha within us all. Me as a busy mom of 4 ...

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