Chion-in is the head temple of the Jodoshu (Pure Land) sect of Buddhism. The chanting of “Namu Amidabutsu,” accompanied by the sounds of a wooden drum, echoed through the night at the temple ...

Eicho, 55, who lives in the western main island of Shikoku, said at a news conference on Jan. 31 in Tokyo that she has filed a complaint with the head office of the Tendai sect of Buddhism in Otsu ...

The presence of two inscriptions from distinctly different religious traditions and time periods at the same site provides a ...

the sect of Buddhism to which we halfheartedly belonged, the myths we believed in, were all descended from Japan. “Act like a samurai,” my mother — who is not Japanese, and who like many ...

High in the Spiti Valley, the 1000-year-old Key Monastery stands as a beacon of Buddhist culture. This fortified monastery, a ...

Led by Venerable Kalsang Gyatso, these Tashi Kyil monks are from the Tibetan Buddhist Gelug Sect of the Dalai Lama, a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Like him, they are exiles from their native land ...

Hyderabad: The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) discovered two inscriptions in the Gundaram Reserve Forest of Telangana ...