Calling himself a "simple Buddhist monk" who usually didn't celebrate birthdays, the Dalai Lama marked his 90th on Sunday by ...

Tibetan resilience against China's historical revisionism and cultural suppression highlights the shared values with Japan.

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With Beijing eager to control the Tibetan centuries-old reincarnation process, a spiritual question has become fused to a ...

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 ...