and Japanese devised a system for equating Buddhist deities with Shinto gods. The Heian aristocracy could never have enjoyed lives filled with romance, poetry, art, and religious devotion without ...

For the Japanese, summer is when the border between the real world and the spirit world becomes weak, and the legendary yōkai ...

Deities from Japan, China, and India evolved into the Seven Lucky Gods, who are popularly depicted aboard a treasure ship. A pilgrimage of seven temples and shrines, each dedicated to one of the ...

Jaee Vartak of Enso School of Languages often shares posts on Instagram, teaching her followers how to speak Japanese. In a recent post, titled 'Indian Gods in Japan', she shared how Indian Gods ...

But amulets change with the times. A card that slips into a wallet and a microSD containing a Buddhist image for uploading to a mobile device keep the deities' spirits close by. Discover the charm ...

Daisaku Ikeda, who headed Soka Gakkai, a Japanese Buddhist organization, that includes famed musician Herbie Hancock and other celebrities in its fold, has died at 95, the Japanese religious ...

The service was held June 20 at Aburayama Kannon Buddhist temple in the city’s Jonan Ward. Relatives of two officers of the Imperial Japanese Army ... of four guardian deities that he displayed ...