The performance brought cheers from a crowd of thousands at an annual lantern-lighting festival over the weekend to celebrate the Buddha’s birthday. Religious belief in South Korea has been on ...

Korea’s heritage system classifies state-designated cultural ... The 14-meter-tall painting, enshrined at Muryang Temple in ...

Today, the statue in the New Jersey Buddhist Vihara and Meditation Center has become a hub for interfaith efforts and a ...

In the 1970s it became a popular trend to summon MacArthur, going so far as to don his trademark corncob pipe and sunglasses ...

Among Korea’s rarest and most beautiful religious artifacts, the Goryeo Period Buddhist paintings were largely lost due to ...

National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik (4th from L) and Ven. Jinwoo (5th from L), chief of the Jogye Order, South Korea's ...

Kweon Seong-dong (L), floor leader of the ruling People Power Party, receives a woodblock on which Buddhism's "Heart Sutra" is inscribed, as a gift from Ven. Sangjin, chief of the Taego Order, South ...

More than 100 Buddhist temples across Korea, including Bongeunsa in southern Seoul, will host Temple Stay programs this March, starting Saturday, the Cultural Corps of Korean Buddhism announced on ...