Few periods in Japanese history are more fascinating than the seventh century. This was the period when Buddhism experienced its initial flowering in the country and the time when Asukadera, Kudara ...

If Japanese Buddhist Temple Bells Could Talk If you’ve visited Buddhist temples in Japan, chances are you passed through ...

For Victor Thach, a 63-year-old San Jose resident who escaped the instability of post-war Vietnam and landed in the United States in 1986, a Buddhist temple on San Jose’s Sunset Court represents a ...

You'd be forgiven if, driving past Dawn Mountain, you thought it was a creatively named architecture firm. Though it's housed in a neat brick building on busy Richmond Avenue near South Shepherd, it's ...

Over 60 years after the Tsunyuji temple was first rebuilt, Tokyo-based Satoru Hirota Architects were commissioned to refurbish the old building and add a few new facilities. They restored the shrine ...

With its five flat peaks, Mount Wutai is a sacred Buddhist mountain. The cultural landscape is home to forty-one monasteries and includes the East Main Hall of Foguang Temple, the highest surviving ...

Plans for what will ultimately become the largest Buddhist temple in the Bay Area for ethnic Cambodians was approved Tuesday night by San Jose councilmembers, clearing the final hurdle for a $25 ...

"Temples to the Buddha and the Gods analyzes the patronage of diverse image houses built in the transnational Drāviḍa tradition of architecture in Sri Lanka--an architectural tradition that has been ...