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Japanese Buddhist monks strutted their stuff Wednesday in a contest highlighting sutra chanting skills, giving funeral sermons and, surprisingly, loud karate chops. The contest, held on the sidelines ...

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 ...

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 ...

LONGMONT — The Longmont Buddhist Temple’s ornate shrine now displays images of two of the faith’s most instrumental teachers. Two hand-painted scrolls, which hang on either side of the shrine, depict ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - He raps. He chants. And this month, Japan's famed hip-hop loving monk, better known as MC Happiness, will tap dance on stage, in the name of Buddhism. Kansho Tagai heads the 400-year ...

GRAFTON -- Jun Yasuda, a Buddhist nun from Japan, tapped a gong Tuesday and its low drone filled a rustic temple and red-hued shrine as she chanted and prayed for the victims of the catastrophic ...

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 ...

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 ...