Wat Dhammararam Buddhist Temple is the kind of hidden gem that makes you wonder how you’ve lived in California this long ...

For a scenic and serene alternative to the beach, head to the Valley of the Temples Memorial Park, where you'll find the Byodo-In Temple, a Hawaii State Landmark that was established on June 7, 1968, ...

Photos show worshipers at Sarnath, an ancient Buddhist site in the northern Indian city of Varanasi where the Buddha ...

Chien Le first met the Venerable Bhikkhu Pannakara in 2005, a few years before Pannakara became a novice monk at the Texas ...

Most people assume a Zen garden is about rocks and raked gravel — a tidy, minimalist space that looks vaguely Japanese. And that's exactly why most Zen garden attempts fall flat. The real thing is ...

For more than 1,400 years, Zenkoji Temple has stood at the heart of Japanese Buddhism. Located in Nagano, the revered temple attracts millions of pilgrims and visitors each year and is said to house ...

If you walk through the streets, you will naturally encounter scenes where a temple is built right next to a shrine surrounded by trees. Hello, I am the novelist F. Here, I unravel the fascination ...

Nicknamed “Gabi,” the humanoid robot monk took part in ceremonies at a temple in Seoul this week. Lee Jin-man / AP At first glance, the ceremony held Wednesday morning at a Buddhist temple in downtown ...

I just returned from a pilgrimage to Japanese temples and gardens, and I’ve been fascinated by their psychological dimensions. This is a topic that is not often discussed. These Zen temple gardens are ...

Practices like seated meditation (zazen) and the use of paradoxical questions (koans) are designed to break habitual patterns of thinking and provoke insight. Zen also teaches that attachment—even to ...