A Buddhist priest who was drafted by the Japanese military and endured horrendous conditions, including witnessing the deaths of many compatriots, while detained in a Soviet internment camp near the ...

But that wasn't always the case. The legendary Sohei warrior monks of medieval Japan were quite the opposite of the image of ...

Buddhist monks are using their voices to reach out ... Such messages are not only delivered online. Temples in Japan usually have bulletin boards around their gates, not only to announce the ...

Nagpur, India, Oct. 24 (Jiji Press)--Shurei Sasai, a Buddhist monk from Japan, is working in India for the restoration of Buddhism, which claims that all people are equal. The 89-year-old has been ...

Four Buddhist monks are creating a mandala in the lobby of the Crow Museum of Asian Art at University of Texas at Dallas by ...

Muji’s New Clothing Line Resembles Robes Worn By Monks & Nuns Japanese retail company Muji is known for selling a wide range of products, from furniture to household items, and to clothes, in their ...

Aberystwyth Mayor, Cllr. Maldwyn Pryse, along with a group of sixth form students from Penweddig and Penglais schools, have ...

Nepali monks offered prayers in the Theravada style, followed by peace chants from Vietnamese, Chinese, Thai, Korean, and ...

In a Buddhist monastery, the title of geshe is the equivalent of a PhD. It’s a monk who has completed at least 20 years of monastic training and passed their exams. Dorje is the director and ...

In Seoraksan National Park, in the north east of South Korea, the mountainous landscape is dotted with Buddhist shrines. Overnight stays in temples and hikes up rocky crags make for a heady ...