Happily, the retreat is unlike a typical (and typically austere) Japanese temple stay ... to our own mandalas is to wonder at how such a simple activity could be so engrossing and so freeing ...

In 1941, when the Japanese government was salvaging metal from wherever it could for the looming Pacific War, the nation’s largest Buddhist group readily handed over its temple bells for the ...

SEOUL—A South Korean temple has reiterated its agreement to return a stolen Buddhist statue to its rightful owner, a Japanese temple, under the condition that a ritual be held in South Korea ...