KYOTO - On a late September day, after the summer heat had subsided, as evening approached and the cicadas stopped buzzing, ...

South Korea has yet to return an ancient Buddhist statue one year after the country's Supreme Court ruled that it belongs to a Japanese temple. The Japanese government is said to have made ...

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Daisaku Ikeda, the former head of one of the world’s largest Japanese Buddhist ... on philosophy, art, poetry, and music. Ikeda has also published a number of books on Buddhism, as well as ...