Planting Seeds of Peace: Commemorative Tree Planting at Higashi Honganji
In a poignant ceremony held on the 2nd of September 2023, the Higashi Honganji temple in Kyoto celebrated the planting of two symbolic trees—"Cypress II," progeny of a tree that survived the atomic ...
Giant statue of ancient Buddhist monk in southwest Japan cleansed ahead of spring festival
One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi ...