When Japanese people are asked about their religion, not many are likely to identify themselves as Buddhists. But in fact, Buddhist temples are ubiquitous throughout Japan. A traveler in Japan would ...

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from Buddhist temples, it’s that they know how to adapt to modern life (such as in the form of EDM dancing). The Jodo sect of Buddhism, which is celebrating its ...

OSAKA -- The new coronavirus has people everywhere avoiding crowded spaces, and in Japan that includes temples. The number of services for the traditional Buddhist holidays of Bon and Higan has fallen ...

Japan is often praised for its ability to preserve traditional customs and architecture while still functioning as a modern society. There are few other places in the world where you can be in the ...

If you’ve visited Buddhist temples in Japan, chances are you passed through their entry gates and continued straight to their venerable main halls. Perhaps you admired the architecture, gazed upon ...

KYOTO -- For many Japanese, particularly among the young, Buddhist temples are a place for funerals and periodic family gatherings to remember deceased relatives, and little else.

The worship of sokushinbutsu, the mummified bodies of Buddhist ascetics, dates back centuries in Japan. First arising in the late fourteenth century, the practice continues at a handful of temples, ...

Memorial services held online. Zen meditation apps. Buddhist temple-led match-making services. As the coronavirus pandemic forces institutions around the world to change the way they do things, those ...

NARA -- A German-born Buddhism scholar-turned monk has passed an ancient exam that can only be taken once in a lifetime at a World Heritage temple in this western Japan city to become a fully-ordained ...

NARA—The Nara National Museum has unveiled the details of its first full-scale exhibition devoted to national treasures, which will bring together Japan’s finest works of Buddhist art next spring.