A Japanese Buddhist monk who adopted an abandoned dog was saved by the canine during a fierce bear attack. Tougen Yoshihara, the abbot of Youkoku Temple, a historic temple in Niigata in central ...

Beijing condemns the Nobel Peace Prize winner — who has led a lifelong campaign for greater autonomy for Tibet.

Tougen Yoshihara, a Japanese Buddhist monk who adopted an abandoned dog, deemed too loud by its previous owners, received the reprieve of a lifetime when the same dog protected him during a bear ...

These 17th century monks chose to slowly mummify themselves over a decade to achieve enlightenment...all so they could help ...

The house that property consultant and ghost investigator Kazutoshi Kodama regularly surveys has a grim history: seven years ...

The Art of Simple Living: 100 Daily Practices from a Japanese Zen Monk for a Lifetime of Calm and Joy Shunmyo Masuno, trans. from the Japanese by Allison Markin Powell. Penguin, $20 (224p) ISBN ...

Even the most devout monk who's found true enlightenment would agree that a rip behind the wheel of this thing would cure ...

The first instalment of this four-part series looks at some of the early figures who paved the way for marathon runners in ...

Tennis historian Joel Drucker says the single biggest change since the dawn of lawn tennis was the professionalization of the ...

Pure Land Foundation has released a Pride Month YouTube series on LGBTQ+ identity and self-love with Buddhist monk and LGBTQ+ ...