Note that Todaiji Temple is less strict than other shrines and temples in Japan. Visitors can photograph the Great Buddha Hall, for example. However, it's still an active place of worship ...

Tsubosakadera temple in Takatori, Nara Prefecture, is known as a place where people can come to pray for eye diseases to be ...

Afterward, we climb the bell tower to view the mountains and the Sea of Japan before ... jewels of Buddhism: Buddha, his teaching, and community. We craft goshuin, or temple seals, using ...

Every day, hundreds of people visit Ryoanji Temple to see its Zen rock garden – which is probably the most famous of its kind in Japan. Located in Kyoto's northern outskirts, the temple was ...

Shikoku is the smallest of Japan's four main islands ... about mindfulness in Buddhist culture. The temple honours Yakushi Nyorai (the Medicine Buddha), who heals sickness and dispels misfortune.

Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country's centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the t ...

TOKYO: Foreign visitors heading to Japan should prepare for potentially spending more, as the country is set to introduce a ...

Thousands of traditional Hina dolls create a stunning display at Tsubosaka-dera Temple in Takatori, Japan, during the annual ...

the second museum in Japan, in April 1895. In the years leading up to its opening, special exhibitions had been held 18 times from 1875 in the corridors of Todaiji temple’s Great Buddha Hall and ...