Buddhist monks chanted verses, praying for the deceased, who had been one of them. One monk, Ashin Javanar Linkhara, then held his dead colleague’s robe to his forehead and whispered the phrase ...

UNESCO's executive board on Thursday added Buddhist scriptures kept at Tokyo's Zojoji Temple to its Memory of the World register, making it the ninth Japanese inscription. The series of some ...

Buddhist monks chanted verses, praying for the deceased, who had been one of them. One monk, Ashin Javanar Linkhara, then held his late colleague’s robe to his forehead and whispered the phrase ...