KYOTO—Researchers may have uncovered the ruins of one of the largest ancient cafeterias for a Buddhist temple in the Nara ...

Today’s Japanese Buddhism is vastly different from what the religion once was. A series exploring the history of Buddhism from its beginnings to its present state in Japan.

Japan has a long history. Archaeological evidence shows that people have ... society moved from an interest in foreign things to native ones, from elite Buddhism to religion for the common people, and ...

Return of Buddhist statue to Japan Setsuryo Tanaka, chief priest of Kannon Temple on Tsushima Island in the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Nagasaki, speaks at the National Research Institute of ...

Dr Amanda Foreman discusses how Shinto merged with Buddhism in Japan and makes particular reference ... This short film is suitable for teaching history at KS3 and KS4/GCSE in England, Wales ...

UNESCO’s executive board on May 24 approved the archives of the Buddhist monk Enchin ... in the context of the history of cultural exchanges between Japan and China. They are also important ...

SWAT: Junsei Terasawa, a prominent Buddhist monk from Japan, on Sunday emphasised the profound historical and cultural connections between the ancient region of Gandhara and Japan, particularly in ...

The documentary offers a close look at a 1,400-year-old tradition of Japanese Buddhist sculpture and the master-apprentice relationship that preserves it.