Recordings of monks chanting prayers and 124 objects fill the new enclosed Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room at the Brooklyn Museum. The immersive installation has paintings, sculptures, silk decorations, ...

ISE, Japan (AP) — Deep in the forests of the Japanese Alps, Shinto priests keep watch as woodsmen dressed in ceremonial white chop their axes into two ancient cypress trees, timing their swings so ...

Inata writes of the culminating rites marking a new shrine: “I was greatly moved by the ... dressed in starched robes bang drums and march to Ise’s inner shrines for prayers. “The world where we live ...

A photographer finds quiet refuges in Tokyo, a city known for its density and crowds. Wellness Around the World A photographer finds quiet refuges in Tokyo, a city known for its density and crowds.

Msgr. Roger Landry, national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies and a board member of Friends of Our Lady of Martyrs, said the shrine is a place where all Catholics are confirmed in the ...

Deep in the forests of the Japanese Alps, Shinto priests watch as woodsmen, clad in ceremonial white, fell two ancient cypress trees. Their axes strike from three precise directions, timed with ...