6:AM Glassworks Builds the Perfect Holder For Burning Palo Santo
AM Glassworks continues to innovate in contemporary glassmaking with its latest creation: the Palo Santo Burner. Crafted using the natural cooling process of cast glass, each piece is uniquely shaped ...
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Japanese Funerals: How to Dress, Act and Show Respect
Learn etiquette for Japanese funerals, including proper attire, behavior and how to offer condolences with condolence money ...
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Silk Roads at the British Museum and Asian Bronze at the Rijksmuseum — rewriting art history
A Thai Buddha meditating cross-legged on ... a lobster-shaped incense burner from 18th-19th-century Japan harks back to samurai armour-plating. The latest object is a bronze mirror made in Kerala ...
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Temple’s ancient Buddhist statue turns heads with hidden images
FUKUYAMA, Hiroshima Prefecture--The hollowed out head of an ancient Buddhist statue kept at the Myooin temple here revealed sheet after sheet of “washi” traditional paper adorned with images ...
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Buddhist sect offers immersive CGI imagery of the Pure Land
TSU--For a glimpse of nirvana, the head temple of the Takada school of the Jodo Shinshu Buddhism sect is offering visitors the chance to experience the Pure Land blooming with lotus flowers.
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Giant Buddhist statue gets Covid face mask in Japan
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 ...