He traveled along a pilgrimage route connecting Ise Jingu shrine in Mie Prefecture with about 150 Buddhist temples and Shinto ... (774-835), who founded the Shingon sect of Buddhism.

KYOTO--Resembling something out of cyberpunk fiction, a research team including a Buddhist temple has created an AI-based chatbot called “Buddhabot,” which stands in for priests and answers ...

Young people wearing traditional kimono have shot their first arrows of the year in a New Year's archery event at a Buddhist temple in Kyoto. The Sanjusangendo temple hosted the event on Sunday.

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.

Every day, hundreds of people visit Ryoanji Temple to see its Zen rock garden – which is probably the most famous of its kind in Japan. Located in Kyoto's northern outskirts, the temple was ...

The temple is one of 88 sacred sites that trace their roots to Kukai, a renowned monk and scholar who traveled to China in the ninth century and returned to found Shingon Buddhism, an influential ...

With its 88 temples and sacred sites ... the central figure of the Henro and the founder of the Shingon School of Japanese Buddhism. Priests began visiting Shikoku after his death, followed ...

Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi), the founder of the Shingon school of esoteric Buddhism, is said to have carved the image as a talisman against misfortune. Work on the temple precincts is believed to have ...

Locally known as "Sewaritei Sakura" ('Sewari-tei' means 'separation levee') Kinugasa, Hanazono, and Omuro in northwestern Kyoto are home to many aristocratic villas established during the imperial ...