Home to two Tibetan monks (one, a teacher-scholar of Buddhist philosophy; the other, a specialist in tantric ritual arts), the temple includes the renovated Medicine Buddha Hall, a 1,600-square ...

It took three years to cast the giant bronze statue of Buddha. The enormous hall that houses it held the record for the largest wooden structure in the world for centuries. Todaiji was an ...

After purifying themselves in the bathhouse, participants gathered at the Great Buddha Hall dressed in white and held a ceremony to temporarily remove the "soul" of the Great Buddha. Then ...