Said to have been established in 589 at the order of Prince Shotoku, Kakurin-ji Temple is East Harima's oldest ancient temple and is also known as the 'Horyu-ji Temple of Harima'. Horyu-ji Temple was ...

Although Daikozen-ji Temple as we know it today was built in 847, its roots stretch back more than a century earlier when it was founded by a Buddhist monk named Gyoki. The temple and the surrounding ...

Almost every garden of importance in Japan is located within or near a center of culture. The dry landscape garden at Sekizo-ji Temple is that rare exception: a highly original, influential design in ...

On Lake Biwa, in Shiga Prefecture, ascetic Buddhist monks at the remote Isaki-ji Temple walk a narrow wooden beam and leap seven meters into the water in a rite of passage that displays tradition and ...

Negoro-ji is the head temple of the Shingi Shingon sect of Buddhism with an illustrious, 900-year history and whose Daitō pagoda has been designated a national treasure. It also becomes filled with ...

Ninna-ji was built in 888 and is a World Cultural Heritage site. The temple’s unique omurozakura—which poets have compared to the cherry blossoms of Mount Yoshino—are late-bloomers that are much ...

KYOTO -- Bronze artifacts unearthed here on the grounds of Kinkaku-ji golden temple may have been part of the Kitayama Daito tower, a supposedly seven-story pagoda thought to have been built nearby by ...

NARA -- Some 170 priests and staff members cleaned up the 15-meter-tall Buddha statue in the Great Buddha Hall of Todai-ji Temple here on Aug. 7. In the annual cleaning event called "ominugui," people ...