At a big-hearted retreat surrounded by nature, Zen rituals fused with mindfulness practices teach Kate Crockett to be more ...

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SANBAGAWA, Gunma Prefecture--Benmou Suzuki’s dilapidated 420-year-old temple, located deep in the forest near a tiny Japanese mountain village, hardly looks like prized real estate. Yet the monk ...

Wiki-licious Yuki Cheesecake/Happy Buns 10:30 a.m., Amezaiku candy craft sculpting by Shan Ichiyanagi 1 p.m., Shinobue with ...

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Around 32 lakh temples globally, primarily in India, will form a unified federation to efficiently manage tourism and spiritual circuits. The International Temples Convention and Expo (ITCX ...

Every day, hundreds of people visit Ryoanji Temple to see its Zen rock garden – which is probably the most famous of its kind in Japan. Located in Kyoto's northern outskirts, the temple was ...

We invited teenagers to write miniature memoirs about meaningful moments in their lives. Read the 20 winning stories. By The Learning Network This year’s Super Bowl was likely the biggest ...

The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in protest of conditions in highest-security prisons. By Alissa Wilkinson ...

Established by Emperor Shirakawa during the Heian Period, the temple's name derives from the ingo (posthumous Buddhist name) of Yoshiakira Ashikaga, the second shogun of the Muromachi bakufu (Japanese ...