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There is a breathtaking golden temple in one of the world's best visitor destinations and it will blow you away.

The ninth-generation zen master of Shorinzan Daruman-ji temple popularized the papier ... Today, 80 percent of daruma dolls in Japan are made in Takasaki. The next time you see a Takasaki daruma ...

“According to Zen Buddhism, the answers are already ... Katsuo-ji isn’t the only “Daruma temple” in Japan. In nearby Kyoto, Hōrin-ji “Darumadera” Temple boasts a collection of around ...

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 ...

an important Sōtō Zen temple nearby — became something of a local attraction. Fast forward to the 1970s, when the Osaka World Expo triggered a surge in Japanese domestic travel. Families were ...

KYOTO--Buddhist temples across Japan traditionally welcome the New ... they are born with that cause them pain and suffering. A Zen temple here is taking a different approach.

For me, I travelled to the Kansai area in Japan because of a short story I read some years ago. In the story, the author said that the statues in the Sanjusangen-do Temple were so real and ...

This course examines how the religious and philosophical traditions of Zen, originally a Buddhist practice of meditation, have become intertwined with Japanese aesthetic principles. It will focus on ...