Buddhism: A Journey Through History by Donald S. Lopez Jr. swiftly soon loses sight of the Buddha himself. Is that a bad ...

The first Buddhist churches of any kind in the country were built in the Bay Area in the early 1850s by Chinese migrant ...

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.

One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi ...

Zen Buddhism also won acceptance in Japan during the medieval period ... Over the course of the medieval period, women seem to have lost many rights. In ancient times, women served as rulers. By the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first Japanese Buddhist church in the U.S. was built in ... The groundbreaking for the new main church building, the fourth in its history, was held in October 1962, and it was completed ...