The saint studied Buddhism during the first eight years of his time in Japan, when, in his words, he “strove with all diligence to study Japanese history, religion, and the spirit of the Japanese ...

Find out what percentage of adults have joined or left Buddhism, or remained Buddhist since childhood, in six countries. Pew ...

Today’s Japanese Buddhism is vastly different from what the religion once was. A series exploring the history of Buddhism from its beginnings to its present state in Japan.

More than 20 of adults have departed from the religious groups in which they were raised, according to a Pew Research Center ...

In many places surveyed, 20% or more of all adults have left their childhood religious group. Christianity and Buddhism have ...

during a ceremony to send back a Buddhist statue of the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva to the Japanese temple. In 2023, South Korea's Supreme Court ordered Buseok Temple in Seosan, 98 kilometers ...

Mugen Train’ blends Buddhist impermanence, Shinto philosophy and samurai ethics into a lesson on courage and suffering.

In many countries around the world, a fifth or more of adults have left the religious group in which they were raised.

In many of the world's countries, 20 percent or more of all adults have left the religious group in which they were raised, a ...