We turn now to Japan, a country that has over 77,000 Buddhist temples. For years, they have been a fixture in cultural life there. Yet many are expected to close - 40 percent of them in the next 25 ...

LONGMONT — The Longmont Buddhist Temple’s ornate shrine now displays images of two of the faith’s most instrumental teachers. Two hand-painted scrolls, which hang on either side of the shrine, depict ...

If you’ve visited Buddhist temples in Japan, chances are you passed through their entry gates and continued straight to their venerable main halls. Perhaps you admired the architecture, gazed upon ...

The two objects in this exhibition exemplify the birth of Buddhism in Japan. In 552, the Korean kingdom of Baekje sent the Japanese court sacred texts (sutras) and a gilt bronze sculpture, thought to ...