In spite of everything, the Buddha continues serenely to beckon suffering beings toward the bliss of his Pure Land paradise. According to tradition, the temple Kōzōji, located in Kakuda in ...

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The trio in their 30s ― Naka Ai, Imura Kasumi, and Morisaki Reiko, ― make up Sanjoudou, a wooden Buddha restoration workshop. They set it up seven years ago to help protect Japan's cultural ...

The world’s largest bronze statue of Buddha is so huge that the famed Kamakura ... It is part of the series "Lisa’s Wanderings Around Japan," which depicts various places across the country ...

And in Japan, people already held the festival on April 8. This holiday is meant to celebrate Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and death. But since Buddhism spread from the Indian subcontinent ...