Reimer says she has no intention of paying a ransom if asked to do so and is choosing to use her money to support the living.

At the ceremony, monks, nuns, and Buddhist followers chanted sutras and lit lotus-shaped candles, offering prayers for peace and expressing deep sympathy for the losses suffered by people back home.

Other "magical" moments include the Monkey King shrinking the giant pole in the Dragon King's underwater palace into a tiny needle, which becomes his magical staff. Huang Ruo said he used choral ...

NEW DELHI, (ANI) – Bodhidharma, a revered Buddhist monk who lived during 5th or 6th century is credited for transmitting Chan Buddhism (the Chinese school of Mahayana Buddhism) in China. The word Chan ...

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Some day trips from Japan’s third largest city are all about the destination. Others ask travelers to enjoy the journey, as well. A visit to Tomogashima — a group of four uninhabited islands in ...

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Don’t miss Okunoin, Japan’s largest and most sacred cemetery, where stone lanterns and mausoleums hunker beneath giant cedar ...

All over the world, religious institutions are experimenting with AI in surprising ways, such as a robot that provides historical information to people entering a sacred space, and a chatbot that ...

The official script of Joseon was Classical Chinese. The Annals of the Joseon Dynasty, as well as all types of official documents and letters, were ...

A sheltered aristocratic woman in feudal Japan, bored and unfamiliar with the world outside her estate, passes the time copying a special Buddhist sutra sent by her father who has been absent on ...