Attendees gather for a group photo during a groundbreaking ceremony for the $15 million Dharma Center on Thursday, March 12, 2026, in San Jose’s Japantown. The center will house a preschool, Sunday ...

Katherine Nguyen stood with hands folded and head bowed at the altar of a Buddhist temple in Southern California. Before her were tooth and finger bone relics believed to ...

Over 100 members of the community gathered at the Friendship Bell at Nikka Yukko Japanese Garden Wednesday evening to take turns ringing the Joya No Kane (New Year’s Eve bell) to welcome the New Year ...

Konkai Komyo-ji Temple is an unmissable treasure in Kyoto. It is most famous for the sparkling Shiun Garden, also known as the Purple Cloud Garden. The name derives from the legend about Honen Shonin, ...

In Andong, Confucian culture, shamanism, Buddhist temples, Catholic and Christian churches are mingled together. There is even a "religious town" where many denominations co-exist in the same area in ...

As a scholar who studies Japanese religion and has a lifelong love of visual storytelling, I started using anime in my class to spark conversations around the Buddhist ideas of karma and Shintō ...

This year’s festival featured a variety of traditional Vietnamese and Japanese rituals and artistic activities, including sutra chanting at the Tam The Hall of Tam Chuc pagoda, Xam folk singing, ...

Buddhistdoor is hosting a third film screening with Asia Society this year, this time showcasing Laurence Brahm’s THE DAKINI CODE: Lotus-Born Master and the Event Horizon. This is the third film in ...

Samu is a practice in Japanese Buddhist temples where the idea is "to give your complete attention to the task at hand, transforming a mundane act like sweeping or wiping a table into a 'moving ...