Dr Ravia Gupta, Dr Smruti Smita Mohapatra “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it ...

Astonishingly the bell was cast entirely with Buddhist sutras and incantations in Han and Sanskrit languages. This is an unequalled Buddhist bell. Some historical records regard the bell as the ...

FUKUOKA--Buddhist sutras were chanted and incense smoldered during a memorial service here for 43 U.S. soldiers executed while being detained as prisoners of war by the Imperial Japanese Army or ...

A 17th-century monk etched 60,000 woodblocks with sutras to promulgate Buddhist teaching. The collotype printing technique faithfully reproduces Kyoto's famed works of art. One initiative uses the ...

According to a Buddhist sutra, after Sakyamuni's death two of his teeth were left in the world. One was taken to Sri Lanka, and the other was brought to China after passing through many hands.

In the village of Yamakogawa in Chiba Prefecture, Brazilian Joken Fernandes trains at a temple to be a Buddhist priest. Zen meditation, reading sutras and chores are part of his rigorous daily ...

A team led by Kyoto University and Tendai Sect Shorenin Monzeki temple has recently announced the development of the Buddhabot that had learned Buddhist sutras to console people who consult it.

We can do this at home or in the vihara, which is a place where Buddhist monks live. One way of doing this is to chant sutras together in the shrine room or prayer hall. In Buddhism, we have a lot ...