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 ...

Daisaku Ikeda, who headed Soka Gakkai, a Japanese Buddhist organization, that includes famed musician Herbie Hancock and other celebrities in its fold, has died at 95, the Japanese religious ...

DAEJEON, South Korea — A Buddha statue stolen in 2012 from Kannonji temple in Tsushima ... where a service will be held before its planned return to Japan in May. The statue, Kanzeon Bosatsu Zazo ...

Refuting perceptions of roadblocks to bring back the remains held in an urn in a Buddhist temple in Renkoji in Japan, a sections of Netaji's descendants claim to have evidence of temple willing to ...

three monastic complexes and over hundreds of votive and commemorative stupas. According to Garnayak, the latest excavation aims at unearthing the partially visible structures and sculptures “and to ...

Kannangara says that there were Buddhist temples on the sites of some present day kovils. Kandasamy kovil at Nallur was earlier a Buddhist shrine with an altar for Skanda. Buddha images were found ...

A 14th-century Buddhist statue that Korea’s Supreme Court ruled should be returned to the Japanese temple that held it before it was smuggled into Korea will be sent to Japan in May. The Gilt ...

Barely a decade back, the area was like an open-air museum with scattered sculptures of Jain and Buddhist deities. Thankfully ... Shantinath with deer or antelope as his symbol. Votive stupas or ...

Japanese collector Kazumi Arikawa is one of the world’s most influential collectors of historic and artistic jewels, with a collection that has been admired for some 40 years. Now, for the first ...

“KP is home to Bhuddhist stupas and we need to highlight it through digital media through short videos to attract foreign investment,” he said. He said these Buddhist stupas draw monks and followers ...

Young people wearing traditional kimono have shot their first arrows of the year in a New Year's archery event at a Buddhist temple in Kyoto. The Sanjusangendo temple hosted the event on Sunday.

Ringing the bell 108 times In Japan, Buddhist temples ring their bells 108 times at midnight, a tradition called ‘Joya no Kane’. Many believe that when these huge bells are rung 108 times ...