Reiko Ohnuma, a scholar of South Asian Buddhism, argues that Maya is remembered in Buddhist tradition as an idealized, if ...

The Japanese archipelago finds itself situated ... There a guide popped open a jib door of coppery paper to reveal an alcove for a Buddhist deity, then slid open another to show me the Shinto ...

The historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, taught that family ties were obstacles to enlightenment. However, his relationship ...

If there is to be a broad-based, democratic resistance, Kurosawa’s film suggests, the “hungry Samurai” who lead it must ...

I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent ...

Conversion is framed as a betrayal of the nation, and Dalits who convert are labelled as traitors, tools of foreign influence, or anti-Hindu.

This image of a protective deity at Taimadera in Nara evokes the ... the prince who was an early patron of Buddhism in Japan. Later, his grandson Taima no Kunimi, who played a key role in ...

A new road will bring trade, and tourists, to the remote village of Ghami – a place that currently has the feel of a lost ...

Jujutsu Kaisen is one of the most popular anime of modern times, and here's how the story began, from jujutsu sorcery's start ...

Thanks to her good karma, Maya had been reborn in the heavens as a god, but in Buddhism gods are not as spiritually ... An order of nuns still survives in China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam, where ...