The Art of Simple Living: 100 Daily Practices from a Japanese Zen Monk for a Lifetime of Calm and Joy Shunmyo Masuno, trans. from the Japanese by Allison Markin Powell. Penguin, $20 (224p) ISBN ...

The first instalment of this four-part series looks at some of the early figures who paved the way for marathon runners in ...

Holding the bottom position of the split squat in a yielding contraction isometric is a good strengthening exercise for the ...

These 17th century monks chose to slowly mummify themselves over a decade to achieve enlightenment...all so they could help ...

A Japanese Buddhist monk who adopted an abandoned dog was saved by the canine during a fierce bear attack. Tougen Yoshihara, the abbot of Youkoku Temple, a historic temple in Niigata in central ...

Tokyo - A Japanese Buddhist monk on Wednesday finished a gruelling nine-day ritual without eating, drinking, or sleeping as he chanted sutras 100 000 times, reports said. The 41-year-old Kogen ...

A Japanese monk performs rituals at Abbasahib Cheena Buddhist Complex, Swat. — Dawn SWAT: Junsei Terasawa, a prominent Buddhist monk from Japan, on Sunday emphasised the profound historical and ...

Kōbō Daishi (also known as Kūkai) studied esoteric Buddhism in China, and brought those ideas back to Japan. According to legend, Kūkai is the first sokushinbutsu and is still alive—in deep ...

Dedicated Japanese monks spent years going through the horrifying process of turning themselves into mummies whilst they were still alive, mimicking a ninth-century monk named Kūkai ...

Founded in 816 CE by an influential monk known as Kobo Daishi, Koyasan — also sometimes known as Mount Koya in English — is among Japan’s most important religious centres.