NOBEOKA, Miyazaki -- One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi temple in this southwestern Japan city was purified ...

The Japanese are mostly Buddhist or Shintoist ... the marker was merely “a symbol of friendship rather than an endorsement of the Jesus claims.” Another theory raises the possibility that ...

A devout Buddhist said a monk trapped ... revoke the status of not only the monk but also a “daisojo” (priest of the highest order). The Tendai sect in Japan was founded in 806 by Dengyo ...

ISAHAYA, Nagasaki Prefecture--On a recent day, the completion ceremony of an artwork commissioned by a Buddhist priest was held ... praying to their own symbols of worship disguised as Christian ...