Among Korea’s rarest and most beautiful religious artifacts, the Goryeo Period Buddhist paintings were largely lost due to ...

Kumarajiva is revered in China. China’s state media emphasize how his translated sutras contributed to the Pure Land and Tiantai sects of Buddhism and ultimately traveled on from China to Korea ...

Religion has historically functioned as both an ideological force and a mechanism for social regulation, evolving through ...

Credit: Zde/ Wikimedia commonsCC BY-SA 4.0 The greatest Buddhist king of India, Ashoka, chose a Greek monk, also known as Dhammarakita, to spread Buddhism in northwestern India around the areas of ...

Paradise Burger (9,800 won), Reincarnation Hot Dog (8,800 won), Rebirth in the Pure Land Burger Set (23,600 won)—these are not the typical menus ... While some have criticized these ventures as overly ...

of “the Buddha’s pure land” — Nalanda Mahavihara, one of the ancient world’s most hallowed centres of learning. Mirroring the exacting expeditions that scholars from across the globe ...

Her research focuses on Chinese Buddhist history, particularly the Chan school and Buddhist-Confucian interactions. Her monograph, The Power of Patriarchs: Qisong and Lineage in Chinese Buddhism, ...

Temples of the True Pure Land sect’s Hongwanji school are still ... not answer a call of nature there out of his deference to Buddhism. “I thought Japan would lose in the war, because bells ...