The event began in the morning of Friday with a celebration march by a group of Japanese monks who entered the monastery from a distance with conchs and drums playing alongside chanting in Japanese, ...

Jon Woodhouse, who writes regular arts and entertainment articles for The Maui News, is currently traveling in Japan and writing about his journey along the way. Dining at Kakurinbo near Mt. Fuji, you ...

Nepali monks offered prayers in the Theravada style, followed by peace chants from Vietnamese, Chinese, Thai, Korean, and ...

Once upon a time, there was a Japanese monk by the name of Saicho. As the story goes, he was studying at Tiantai Mountain, in China’s Zhejiang province, in the early ninth century, when he ...

Born in the town of Ibigawa in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, Yokoyama went to Manchuria in 1943, a region in present-day northeast China, when he was 18 years old. He worked as a Buddhist monk in ...

Kite-flying events were held across Japan this weekend to pray for a ceasefire and peace in the Gaza Strip. At a park in Tokyo's Odaiba district on Saturday, about 50 people, including parents and ...

“But I now pray for my grandson’s health.” Japan’s unique relationship to ... as well as talk sessions and concerts. A Komyoji monk, Yuken Kihara, serves his homemade desserts, tea and ...

Funk said while the eight monks try to shut the city out for the sake of their prayer, they also hope to offer some peace to Chicagoans. “We live with our neighbors, all the pluses and minuses ...