Tokyo’s refurbished 17th century Buddhist temple marries modern aesthetics with Edo period architecture Design Architecture 03/08/2016 under Architecture ...

Researchers surveying a temple in Japan’s Shiga Prefecture have discovered long-hidden paintings of eight Buddhist saints that could date back more than 1,300 years, report Jiro Tsutsui and ...

TOKYO – As Japan gears up to host the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and caters to a surging influx of foreign visitors, the country faces a cultural dilemma: Should it stop identifying Buddhist temples on ...

In many places, Shinto and Buddhism, with their associated structures, shrines and temples respectively, share the same sacred grounds. Today, there are about 80,000 shrines and 77,000 temples in ...

TOKYO — As Japan gears up to host the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and caters to a surging influx of foreign visitors, the country faces a cultural dilemma: Should it stop identifying Buddhist temples on ...

Buddhist monks clean the dust off the 15-meter-high Great Buddha during the annual cleaning at Todaiji Temple on August 7, 2017, in Nara, Japan. The Great Buddha of Nara, built in A.D. 752, and one ...

Christoph Kleine, Rethinking the Interdependence of Buddhism and the State in Late Edo and Meiji Japan, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Vol. 49, No. 1 (2022), pp. 89-113 ...