Hamburg Buddhist Studies, vol. 11, edited by Oren Hanner. Hamburg: Numata Center for Buddhist Studies, 2020. “Creative Nothingness: Dada as Art, Politics and Religion in Interwar Japan.” Anarchism, a ...

Of the tens of thousands of Japanese converted to Orthodoxy thanks to his labors, a significant portion were former Buddhists, and amongst his assistants were former Buddhist monks (Bhikkhu), for ...

The world’s first sutra-chanting android deity, modelled after Kannon the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy, was introduced to the public last week. Kannon is worshiped by thousands of temples in Japan ...

Born in India 25 centuries ago, Buddhism changed greatly as it made its way through China and to Japan, where it arrived in the sixth century CE. Today’s Japanese Buddhism is vastly different ...

He describes how “in the Buddhist newpaper Yamato-Simbun, two articles are printed daily with the most impudent lies and slander against the mission and Orthodox Christians… We never answer these ...

Two sets of historic Buddhist documents ... important in the context of the history of cultural exchanges between Japan and China as well as for learning about legal matters in Tang Dynasty ...

Many have heard of the pillars of suffering or of reaching nirvana, but few aspects of Buddhism are quite so entrancing as ...

There are more than 20,000 large and small Buddhist and Christian stone markers and unmarked graves of war dead, as well as a giant statue of Kannon, the goddess of mercy in Japanese Buddhism ...

The Spokane Buddhist Temple is hosting an Obon Japanese Buddhist Festival on Sunday, August 18 from 2 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at ...

Meet the Yamabushi, a group of alpine ascetics who are opting out of the rat race and reconnecting with nature.

Era named "Yayoi" after the place in Tokyo where wheel-turned pottery was found ... and the Nihon shoki (Chronicle of Japan). With the adoption of Buddhism as the state religion, its monasteries gain ...

TOKYO: A 350-year-old Buddhist temple in Japan may have the best ramen in town. Hozoin Temple, in Kyoto prefecture in southeast Japan, boasts a rich history that dates back to 1669, and the temple ...