A 400-year-old Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, is using a $1 million humanoid to reach a younger generation, but foreigners are repulsed by it. The Kodaji Temple, in a partnership with the robotics ...

Monks and volunteers have cleaned Buddhist statues at Yakushiji Temple in the ancient Japanese capital of Nara ahead of the ...

TOKYO (AP) — A 14th century Korean Buddhist statue stolen from a Japanese temple nearly 13 years ago was returned on Monday, following a yearslong legal battle between Japan and South Korea over its ...

The new year brings a fresh start, symbolized in some cultures by the cherubic baby New Year who replaces the old year that ...

Japan’s Imperial family resided in Kyoto, the ancient capital, for over 1,000 years, which accounts for the fact that an estimated 2,000 age-old shrines, temples and castles blanket the city. Today, ...

TOKYO - The Kamiyacho Open Terrace cafe in central Tokyo has all the trappings of a trendy establishment — good coffee, homemade dessert, an airy terrace. But what makes the cafe truly interesting is ...

The two objects in this exhibition exemplify the birth of Buddhism in Japan. In 552, the Korean kingdom of Baekje sent the Japanese court sacred texts (sutras) and a gilt bronze sculpture, thought to ...

So you already ditched the diet you set for the New Year. You're actually smoking more, even though you resolved to quit. Don't fret about already abandoned New Year's resolutions. You'll get two more ...

Making jelly roll manju Twice a year, volunteers from the Oregon Buddhist Temple gather to make manju, Japanese sweet treats, to sell at their annual summer festival. The group sells five different ...

You can hear a sermon about the Heart Sutra at almost any Buddhist temple. But at one house of worship in Japan, it's delivered by a robot. Mindar, a 6-foot-tall, gender-neutral android modeled after ...

Spokane Buddhist Temple ministers read the names of three significant people during a Hatsubon memorial service Sunday afternoon. But they weren’t all founders or members of the temple, as might be ...