The main training center for Shingon Esoteric Buddhism with its iconic five-story pagoda, the key landmark of Kyoto's scenery. The temple is known as ”Daishi's temple.” Not far south of Kyoto Station ...

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The monthly anniversary of a parishioner's death. 03:03 Reciting sutras on these dates at the family home is a standard part of a priest's job.

The vice president of the University of Tokyo expressed a growing sense of alarm about the school’s disproportionate ratio of male to female students. Yujin Yaguchi, 58, who also serves as the ...