Large torches were ignited March 12 during the annual "Shuni-e" two-week training of Buddhist priests at Todaiji temple's ...

Happily, the retreat is unlike a typical (and typically austere) Japanese temple stay ... and along Dairyuji's wood hallways, and at night as I lie on my futon in a tatami room decorated with ...

Tsubosakadera temple in Takatori, Nara Prefecture, is known as a place where people can come to pray for eye diseases to be ...