Kamakura served as a spiritual hub of Zen Buddhism and a center of samurai devotion. Kenchō-ji, the city’s oldest and most ...

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While the experiences vary, a temple stay is a unique way to experience Japan, clear your mind and hopefully find some zen along the way. The writer stayed at Okuyama Houkouji as a guest of the ...

KYOTO--Buddhist temples across Japan traditionally welcome the New Year by ringing their bells 108 times to free people of the 108 worldly desires they are born with that cause them pain and ...

You’ll have better light and a better chance for an elusive moment of Zen. Good to know ... of Nagano prefecture. Japanese people visit shrines and temples, like Yohashira-jinja Shrine ...

This is how days begin at Dairyuji, an 800-year-old Zen temple—a place of ancient beams, lofty halls, and deep, deep time—in Akita prefecture, in Japan's Tohoku region. But Dairyuji is also ...

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