Samurai once lived in Buddhist temples here, Nagashima explained, working as security guards called boukan.
In the distance a tractor rumbled, and scratchy music wafted from speakers at a nearby Buddhist festival.
It looks like a cross between a Buddhist temple and a Minnesota funeral parlor.
Enter the Lotus Sutra, considered one of the most significant Buddhist scriptures in East Asia.
Buddhist leaders say the riots were not a spontaneous reaction to the alleged Koran insult.
And as a leading Buddhist nun, did you face any difficulties in adjusting to Lumbini?
The Soka Gakkai was then little more than a Buddhist-equivalent of the Salvation Army.
Sure, some are aware of that tiny Buddhist nation sandwiched between China and India.
But Mr Koizumi's junior coalition partner, the Buddhist-backed New Komeito, has balked at the idea.
The Bhutanese banned the Hindu settlers from moving to the northern Buddhist parts of the country.
For the Hollywood soulful, the deeply Buddhist, gentle, eco-aware country has become the new Nepal.
The Buddhist-backed New Komeito's 24 upper-house seats would give Mr Obuchi the majority he needs.
There was alarm across the Buddhist world and the United Nations expressed grave concern.
Wandering Buddhist monks, passing through the dense jungles, occasionally came upon the awesome ruins.
Mahinda, from Hambantota, represents the rural south, the Buddhist provincial bourgeoisie, rather than the urban elite.
The next week I had dinner with a Buddhist monk in a Buddhist monastery.
So sayeth the leader of the Dhammakaya sect, a Thai Buddhist version of the prosperity gospel hustle.
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Back in the USA, he announces he's a changed man, embraces nonviolence and joins a Buddhist commune.
In Hindu and Buddhist temples, mosques and churches, prayers are being offered for the dead and injured.
Mr Rajapaksa's military campaign is hugely popular among the Sinhalese Buddhist who make up the majority population.
Vietnam's population of 75m is mostly Buddhist, but more than one person in ten is a Catholic.
Buddhist and Muslim religious leaders also spoke out on Sunday, urging respect for the law and community harmony.
The Asahi torch is close by the Sensoji Temple, one of Tokyo's oldest and most traditional Buddhist sites.
Buddhist temples are a must visit when travelling through Asia, and Naritasan is one of the less touristy.
Burma is a conservative, mainly Buddhist country where many gay men and women feel they cannot come out.
Before coming to Athens, the team went to Buddhist temples to pray for confidence to win the gold.
"Most people in Thailand describe themselves as Buddhist", says Sulak Sivaraksa, a writer on Buddhism based in Bangkok.
One is Mahler's part-Nietzschean, part-Buddhist belief that we live and work through cycles of reincarnation, aiming towards purification.
He went hiking through the mountains with some friends, and arrived to stay the night at a Buddhist temple.
The question certainly worries the country's Buddhist leaders, whose 53, 000 monks provide guidance to the faithful from 6, 000 temples.
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