Mugen Train’ blends Buddhist impermanence, Shinto philosophy and samurai ethics into a lesson on courage and suffering.

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Eating glass. Fire walking. Sword swallowing. These acts that shock and delight have roots in the real and mythical practices ...

Jeremy Shelton is not your typical church planter. In fact, he describes himself as an “unexpected international minister on ...

“With every Tibetan Buddhism relic that goes to the hands of Communist China ... sits at the top of a violent system as the mouthpiece of a silent, abusive God.

While the human drama film 『Byeong-ju』 (directed by Kim Hyung-ju, produced by Moonlight) is proving to be an expected film ...

What caught Kadam’s eye, however, were idols of Hindu gods and goddesses in corners of the temple compound. “There was very little of the essence of Buddhism,” Kadam said. “There were so ...

NPR readers of different belief systems share the poignant rituals that make them feel close to their spirituality. For some, ...

The Senso-ji Temple is dedicated to Asakusa Kannon, the Buddhist god of mercy and happiness. According to legend, two fishermen struck gold and found a statue of the god while fishing on the ...

Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state ...

Religious types insist that contradictions in sacred scriptures are not cardinal flaws. They blame it on artistic classification, circumstances, different writers, or simply translation. Differences ...

A skunk with distemper, who may have been living under our back deck for years until we did renovations, keeps returning to our house and falling blindly into the window well, where it gets trapped.