Sole official Tibetan temple in Japan offers matchmaking luck, buzzworthy photos
Inside, just as in Jokhang ... Mongolians and others living in Japan visit the temple as a place of spiritual comfort, and ...
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As sales of Japan temples and shrines surge, a crackdown on bad-faith buyers
SANBAGAWA, Gunma Prefecture--Benmou Suzuki’s dilapidated 420-year-old temple, located deep in the forest near a tiny Japanese mountain village, hardly looks like prized real estate. Yet the monk ...
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Japanese mark the end of winter with bean-throwing ritual to ward off evil spirits
Japan’s annual ritual of “mame-maki ... Like rice, soybeans are considered a symbol of vitality and purity. Inside the Zojoji temple in Tokyo, a number of people including sumo wrestlers ...
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Visitors pray for healthy eyes at mountain temple in Japan
Tsubosakadera temple in Takatori, Nara Prefecture, is known as a place where people can come to pray for eye diseases to be cured. Its main object of worship is a statue of the 11-faced ...