A 400-year-old temple in Japan is attempting to hot-wire interest in Buddhism with a robotic priest it believes will change the face of religion -- despite being accused of creating a "Frankenstein's ...

The thirteen-century-old Heart Sutra is only some 260 characters long, but is said to be a crystallization of all Buddhist wisdom. Instantly recognizable to many in Japan, as well as to Buddhists ...

Kerr (Lost Japan) delivers a meticulous and personal examination of the Heart Sutra, the influential Buddhist scripture from the seventh century CE. Kerr interprets the sutra line by line, tying its ...

In this curious yet insightful volume, translator Schodt (Dreamland Japan) explores the historical, religious, and cultural aspects of one of the shortest texts in the Buddhist canon. The Heart Sutra ...

'Tis the season to be nothing. The Heart Sutra, Buddhism's shortest, most paradoxical text is all about nothingness: We are nothing, nothing is worth doing. Hardly a promising subject, but as the ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “To tell the truth, religious faith is just a matter of believing stories,” one character observes in Yan ...

The Buddha had his 2,571st birthday at Green Gulch Zen Center at Muir Beach on Sunday morning. More than 400 people – at least half of them families with little kids – turned out for the 20-year-old ...

To mark the return of the Art Basel fair in Hong Kong, the giant external wall of M+ museum, in the West Kowloon Cultural District, will come to life from May 20 with a new video by filmmaker Ellen ...