“Encouraging a medieval mindset only serves to exploit Dalits ... The followers are not allowed to enter with footwear, just like in temples. In the next few minutes, Ravinder moves through the crowd, ...

SANBAGAWA, Gunma Prefecture--Benmou Suzuki’s dilapidated 420-year-old temple, located deep in the forest near a tiny Japanese mountain village, hardly looks like prized real estate. Yet the monk ...

The film follows a young traveler exploring Kyoto, Japan, during a summer vacation. He experiences the city's rich history, visiting temples, shrines, and parks, while learning about Japanese culture.

Feudal Japan (around1185 AD-1600 AD) has always been a popular setting for video games. 1981's Kawanakajima no Kassen was a very early PC strategy game that dropped players in the Sengoku Period ...

The oldest religious site in Tokyo is also its most visited. The Senso-ji Temple sees about 30 million annual visitors and its inception dates all the way back to year 628. Despite its claim to ...

Whenever I find myself sneaking into a heavily guarded temple full of high rooftops ... It’s exhaustive in how it depicts Japan’s feudal era even in fiction, crafting its world with the ...

Situated on Otowa Mountain in eastern Kyoto, Kiyomizu-dera Temple wows travelers with its stunning natural scenery, which visitors say is best viewed from the verandah off the temple's main building.

KYOTO--Inspired by a priest’s belief that Buddhist practices should evolve, the bodhisattva of compassion and mercy has manifested himself as a robot at a temple here. The android edition of ...

The gift of fruit also has a spiritual meaning, with fruit being the historical gift to the gods and ancestors in Japanese temples. Quite different from giving an apple to your teacher!

In the East Bay, Japanese temples and churches were the community’s key congregation points until student activists united the organizations around the common cause of helping immigrant seniors. The ...

The temple is known as ”Daishi's temple ... Property together with Yakushi Sanzonzo (triad image of Yakushi Buddha). The five-story pagoda, Japan's tallest wooden structure and the symbol of Kyoto The ...

Sister Tsujimoto is a Young Women presidency counselor and temple worker and former ward Relief Society president and ward Primary presidency counselor. She was born in Sapporo, Japan, to Shoji ...