This sacred place has plenty of landscaping and beautiful gardens, which means maintenance trucks are needed. This is a ...

Bhutan, the Himalayan kingdom that brought the world the concept of gross national happiness, is set to build a "mindfulness ...

A Buddhist priest who was drafted by the Japanese military and endured horrendous conditions, including witnessing the deaths of many compatriots, while detained in a Soviet internment camp near the ...

Ace Japanese film director Kore-eda Hirokazu is in advanced post-production on 'Asura,' a family drama series for Netflix.

Japan’s fourth largest and most scenic island. Winding through varied landscapes, many of which seem out of a Hiroshige woodblock print, travellers follow in the footsteps of influential ...

Bhutan, the Himalayan kingdom that brought the world the concept of gross national happiness, is set to build a "mindfulness ...

UNESCO’s executive board on May 24 approved the archives of the Buddhist monk Enchin (814-891 ... of the history of cultural exchanges between Japan and China. They are also important for ...

Mindfulness, or shamatha, is a subdiscipline of meditation. It is, in part, an exercise in nonattachment. Plot twist: ...

HONG KONG, Nov. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CNN's 'Artisans' meets the dedicated craftspeople who hope to preserve the ...

Hong Kong’s Greater Bay Airlines has launched flights to Zhoushan, a mainland Chinese city known for its Buddhist pilgrimage ...

Telling the story of a small, subsistence farming mountain community whose few remaining members keep drifting away to nearby cities, Tsuta Tetsuichiro’s second feature, 2013’s The Tale of Iya, drew ...

This thrilling, wide-ranging exhibition maps the complex connections among European and Asian civilizations from A.D. 500 to ...