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TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese company has introduced a new role for SoftBank's humanoid robot "Pepper" - a Buddhist priest for hire at funerals. Chanting sutras in a computerized voice while tapping a ...

Some of our listeners collect sounds when they travel. One of them is Scott Van Dutton from Oceanside, Calif. He shares a soundclip of the sounds of Buddhist chanting in Nara, just outside Kyoto, ...

AMONG the scores of new religions that have sprung up in Japan since the end of the Second World War, by far the most potent is that represented by what is, on the whole, a quite worldly organization ...

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While driving past Yorba Linda’s planned communities, golf courses and horse corrals, many might be surprised to learn that a largely Japanese community following the teachings of an Indian named ...

A Japanese monk who “makes music for anxiety and less suffering” is being rewarded with millions of listeners. Yogetsu Akasaka, a 37-year-old Zen Buddhist monk, uses a loop station to combine and ...