The Senso-ji Temple is dedicated to Asakusa Kannon, the Buddhist god of mercy and happiness. According to legend, two fishermen struck gold and found a statue of the god while fishing on the ...

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 ...

A Buddhist statue of the Avalokitesvara ... during a ceremony to send it back to Kannon Temple on Tsushima Island in the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Nagasaki. In 2023, South Korea's ...

Visually-impaired content maker Lucy Edwards travels to Japan to experience the country ... a world without sight during her visit to a Buddhist temple in Hiroshima known as shukubo or "to sleep ...