A popular Japanese performing arts group is blending Buddhist chants with cyber aesthetics and electronic music.

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A Japanese monk who “makes music for anxiety and less suffering” is being rewarded with millions of listeners. Yogetsu Akasaka, a 37-year-old Zen Buddhist monk, uses a loop station to combine and ...

Monks and worshippers spent the night of April 18 chanting sutras to honor the founder of Chion-in temple in Kyoto’s Higashiyama Ward. Chion-in is the head temple of the Jodoshu (Pure Land) sect of ...

TOKYO – A Japanese company has introduced a new role for SoftBank’s humanoid robot “Pepper” – a Buddhist priest for hire at funerals. Chanting sutras in a computerized voice while tapping a drum, the ...

Buddhist monk Taigen Yokoyama demonstrates his karate technique by breaking tiles at the Life Ending Industry Expo in Tokyo, on December 9, 2015 Buddhist monk Taigen Yokoyama demonstrates his karate ...

AMONG the scores of new religions that have sprung up in Japan since the end of the Second World War, by far the most potent is that represented by what is, on the whole, a quite worldly organization ...