Part of the group’s theology, though, was rooted in ancient Buddhist beliefs that had shaped mainstream Japanese society during the Kamakura period ... “There are records of monks and priests ...

NOBEOKA, Miyazaki -- One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi temple in this southwestern Japan city was purified ...

While other religions and cultures teach that homosexuality is sinful, Buddhist monk Kodo Nishimura ... I can tell because I'm a homosexual monk." "In Japan, it is not common for people to be ...

Wonu, chief monk at Buseok Temple ... a ceremony to send back a Buddhist statue of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva to Kannon Temple on Tsushima Island in the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Nagasak.

The Buddhist stature ... to a peak of native Japanese refinement in the late Heian period. Buddhist sculpture continued to evolve thereafter, notably in the hands of the Kamakura period master ...

Her cookbook features nine recipes that reflect the temple's culinary philosophy of shojin ryori - traditional Buddhist vegetarian cuisine developed by monks during Japan's Kamakura period (1185 ...