Introduction : Dragons, Metal, and the Deep Blue Sea -- Chapter One : The Impact of Form, Sound, and Movement on Early Temple Bells -- Chapter Two : Dragons, Water, and Sunken Bells -- Chapter Three : ...

If you’ve visited Buddhist temples in Japan, chances are you passed through their entry gates and continued straight to their venerable main halls. Perhaps you admired the architecture, gazed upon ...

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Bells tolled in some 80 Buddhist temples in Japan, China and Korea on Monday to mark the birthday of a ninth-century itinerant Japanese monk and spread his message of peace.

In 1941, when the Japanese government was salvaging metal from wherever it could for the looming Pacific War, the nation’s largest Buddhist group readily handed over its temple bells for the slaughter ...

The tone and timbre of Buddhist bells depends on their shape, thickness and metal composition. When the ancient capital was established in the late 8th century, temple bells were positioned in ...

For more than two centuries the Oigo Seisakusho company has been producing bells for Buddhist temples. Today it accounts for around 70% of all bells made in Japan. It is a sound that can be heard ...

Ringing in the New Year is taken literally by Hawaii’s many Buddhists, who invite visitors to join them in traditional bell-ringing ceremonies on Dec. 31. Throughout the islands, followers of Buddha ...