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Lin Ming-teh notes that besides carrying on traditions, craftsmanship in Lukang has been raised to the level of art | ...

Championed by Indonesian president Sukarno, Sanur was a high-flying destination for Rockefellers, Rothschilds - and even hosted Mick Jagger's wedding The 1960s was a pivotal decade for Bali, with two ...

The temple is also famous for the unique Buddhist lectures given by the monks to students ... at the center of the Yakushi-ji Temple complex and enshrines the temple's main icons, the Yakushi Sanzonzo ...

Nothing reminds you of your mortality like throwing your back out at an 800-year-old Japanese Buddhist temple. But nothing helps you forget said mortality than eating chips sprinkled with seaweed ...

Thousands of pilgrims camped overnight outside Sri Lanka's holiest Buddhist temple in anticipation of Friday's display of a ...

People across Thailand have doused water on Buddhist statues at temples to celebrate the traditional start of the country's New Year. The time-honored Songkran festival began on Sunday.

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 ...

The street co-naming honors the life of the Zen master who once lived and studied on the same block of West 109th Street.

In 1956 he converted to Buddhism, along with nearly half a million ... where the prime minister pledged allegiance to the icon’s principles. Meanwhile, the Congress party is loth to share ...

And lining its lengthy walls is a rare full set of 1,000 wooden statues of Kannon, the Buddhist goddess of mercy. The human-sized statues were carved from Japanese cypress in the 12th and 13th ...