A Buddhist statue of the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva ... it back to Kannon Temple on Tsushima Island in the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Nagasaki. In 2023, South Korea's Supreme Court ...

P. Vijitha, a Buddhist monk who was part of the 20-member delegation that arrived in Osaka with Minister Chamal Rajapaksa was detained at the airport by Japanese immigration officers and deported to ...

BANGKOK--Gruesome depictions in Buddhist temples of hell's torments are no laughing ... the globally popular anime character from Japan, to teach them about punitive justice.

Archaeologists excavating the site of the former Yamashiro Kokubunji Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, recently uncovered the ...

Born in India 25 centuries ago, Buddhism changed greatly as it made its way through China and to Japan, where it arrived in the sixth century CE. Today’s Japanese Buddhism is vastly different ...

A 57m (187ft) Buddhist statue dedicated to the Goddess of Mercy, Kannon, in central Japan has been draped with a giant face covering. Temple managers in Aizuwakamatsu plan to keep the figure ...