This ambitious work offers a transnational account of the deity Shinra Myojin, the "god of Silla" worshipped in medieval Japanese Buddhism from the eleventh to sixteenth centuries. Sujung Kim ...

Contributed articles presented in the conference titled "Culture as Power: Buddhist Heritage and the Indo-Japanese Dialogue", held during August 16-17, 2018, at IIC, New Delhi. Madhu Bhalla is Former ...

Not so, because Japan has created an AI-powered Buddhist monk robot, which has been named Buddharoid, and it not only sits ...

A humanoid robot that can chant Buddhist scriptures and perform rituals has been unveiled by researchers in Japan, saying it could bridge the missing element in digital religious practice — physical ...

Buddhism is the only major religion whose global population shrank between 2010 and 2020. Learn why it declined in East Asia, ...

If you’ve visited Buddhist temples in Japan, chances are you passed through their entry gates and continued straight to their venerable main halls. Perhaps you admired the architecture, gazed upon ...

Named “Buddharoid”, the humanoid robot has been trained on vast Buddhist scriptures and can hold engaging conversations while ...

The global population of Buddhists shrank by roughly 5% between 2010 and 2020, the sole major religious group to decline.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hotei hands out gifts to children. Detail of print by Kuniyoshi Utagawa, 1798-1861, via Wikimedia Commons The new year brings a ...