In 1941, when the Japanese government was salvaging metal from wherever it could for the looming Pacific War, the nation’s largest Buddhist group readily handed over its temple bells for the ...

Minamiyamashiro, in the very south of Kyoto Pref., was once an important transportation hub, and many Buddhist temples were built to spiritually watch over this secluded region. Around the 15th ...

Vijitha, a Buddhist monk ... possession of a temple in Pelmadulla. The organisers of the event had obtained special messages from President Mahinda Rajapaksa and the Maha Nayakes as well. A costly two ...

A Buddhist statue of the Avalokitesvara ... during a ceremony to send it back to Kannon Temple on Tsushima Island in the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Nagasaki. In 2023, South Korea's ...

Streets, shops, houses and temples are decorated with flowers. Children wear flower decorations and traditional Japanese clothing. Models of the Buddha surrounded with flowers sit in Buddhist temples.

Buddhism has long been something that people ... Such messages are not only delivered online. Temples in Japan usually have bulletin boards around their gates, not only to announce the dates ...

The city, known as the cultural capital of Japan, is home to numerous Buddhist temples, the Imperial Palace, Shinto shrines, traditional wooden houses and meticulously kept gardens – all make ...

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

Pokémon fever has taken over the world -- it's touched private businesses, Holocaust museums, and now, a Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan. Recently, the temple announced that it would partially ...

A 57m (187ft) Buddhist statue dedicated to the Goddess of Mercy, Kannon, in central Japan has been draped with a giant face covering. Temple managers in Aizuwakamatsu plan to keep the figure ...