BEIJING (Reuters) - A Buddhist temple on the outskirts of Beijing has decided to ditch traditional ways and use technology to attract followers. Longquan temple says it has developed a robot monk that ...

Many people in the West interpret Buddhism as a path of meditation leading to enlightenment. What many may not know is that this interpretation differs vastly from its practice in East Asia. I have ...

The sound of chanting echoed through the makeshift temple, to the slow steady pulse of a drum. Forty-nine days had passed since Jonathan Van’s uncle had died in Vietnam, and he and his family gathered ...

[1] Zen, Goeika, and Shomyo chants in actual Buddhist temple services -- [2] Japanese temple music : Zen, Nembutsu, and Yamabushi chants Repository Loc. Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife ...

A group of Buddhist monks is walking for peace from Texas to the White House in Washington, DC. Nearly two dozen monks from ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai temple cat's bid for affection during five-hour-long New Year prayers was enough to test the patience of a Buddhist monk as he tried to maintain his chanting concentration.

Dennis Sage never planned on becoming a Buddhist. He used to consider himself not a particularly religious or philosophical person. When he was introduced to the Nichiren school of Buddhism in 1979, ...

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