On August 16, 1945, the day after Japan surrendered to the Allied Forces in World War II, a 21-member independence ...

The enjoyment of nature is a central element of Japanese spirituality, and with miles of pristine coastline and acres of ...

Filmmaker, author and Buddhist teacher in the Rimé (non-sectarian) lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, who has established several ...

Moreover, it was very common for Greek deities to be incorporated into foreign religions, such as Heracles. Members of the ...

Fortune-telling, deeply rooted in Korean culture, continues to thrive in modern Seoul, with wealthy neighborhoods like ...

In 1279, his empire overrun by the invading Mongols, China's last Sung emperor was cast into the sea. Kublai Khan became lord of an empire that stretched from Korea to Mesopotamia. In the ...

We will then consider the introduction of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism to Japan and examine how these traditions ... the imperial era and then consider the communist suppression of religion and ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s long-reigning coalition lost a majority in the parliamentary election, underscoring ...

These Christian ethnic minorities live in a unique context: In Myanmar, Buddhism is the state religion, and Buddhists make up ...

Like Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta, Stoicism rejects a separate divine sphere, arguing instead that God is infused in all ...

The fundamental point here, of course, is that Confucianism could not exist without Daoism and Buddhism, and East Asian religion and philosophy have been characterized by their syncretic nature ...

(RNS) — The synod’s job is over. Now it is up to the rest of the church to become synodal. (The Conversation) — Claims about Columbus being Sephardic have bubbled up for decades. Early in ...