NAGOYA -- "It's just like being in Tibet!"That's the impression when you step into the Qambalin Buddhist temple in this ...

The monks were willing to lay down their lives in order to fight for what they believed in. Enryaku-jii was the most ...

After a few forays in different fields of learning, I realized that the temple can be a prime site of education. 2. We understand the customs of Buddhist monks in Japan differ somewhat from monks in ...

Japanese monks have been skipping, skating and juggling to show how unrestrictive their traditional attire is. It comes after a monk was fined by police for driving while wearing a kimono because ...

While other religions and cultures teach that homosexuality is sinful, Buddhist monk Kodo Nishimura ... outside Japan through the book." Nishimura grew up at a Tokyo temple of the Jodo sect ...

A Canadian teenager has been questioned by police in Japan after carving letters ... who were with him when the vandalism occurred. A monk at the temple told The Mainichi that "even though it ...