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Faith As Inoculation At Tokyo's Health Temples

Gail Nakada | Posted 04.27.2013 | Travel
Read More: Traditional Medicine, Traditional Healing, Travel, Healing, Travel to Japan, Japan, Temples, Fun Things to Do in Tokyo, Health, Alternative Medicine, Buddhist, Shrines, Tokyo, Alternative Therapy, Medicine, Shinto, Sugamo, Zojoji, Koganji, Travel News
Gail Nakada

Koganji has been drawing hopeful health seekers to Sugamo since 1656. Believers come to pray to the powerful Togenuki Jizo statue.

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Mount Kōya: One Of Japan's Enduring Sacred Mountains

Ethan Lindsay | Posted 10.27.2012 | Religion
Read More: Shingon Buddhists, Koya, Shingon Buddhism, Shinto, Mount Koya, Buddhism in Japan, Slideexpand, Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism, Japan Sacred Mountain, Religion News
Ethan Lindsay

These narratives imbue Mount Kōya with a profound sanctity, a serenity that one finds at a sacred site believed to be inhabited by miracle-working saints and resident deities.

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Seeking Enlightenment From Spirits And Forests In Japan

Katherine Marshall | Posted 09.13.2011 | Religion
Read More: International Year of the Forest, Unesco, Hotoke, Buddhist, Japan, Shinto, Kami, Kumano, Shinto Tradition, Green Faith, Religious Environmentalism, International Shinto Foundation, Religion in Japan, Kumano Shrine, Religion News
Katherine Marshall

The hope is that, listening to such wisdom can point toward ways to confront the threats that face our forests and our environment and give us the wisdom and determination to act upon them.

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Japanese Look To Ancient Traditions For Strength

Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Read More: Mourning in Japan, Japan Earthquake, Japanese Religion, Japan Disaster, Japan Tsunami, Shinto, Japanese Mourning, Buddhism, Religion in Japan, Japan, Japanese Buddhism, Religion News

By Cathy Lynn Grossman USA Today (RNS) When uncounted thousands have died in a disaster such as last week's earthquake and tsunami, where will the Ja...

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How Japan's Religions Confront Tragedy

CNN Belief Blog | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Read More: Religion, Tragedy, Japan Earthquake, Japanese Religion, Japan Earthquake 2011, Japan Tsunami, Shinto, Japan Tsunami 2011, Japan, Buddhism, Religion News

Proud of their secular society, most Japanese aren't religious in the way Americans are: They tend not to identify with a single tradition nor study r...

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Babies and Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo, Earth, Japanese Culture, Emotion, Bugs, Mono No Aware, An Inconvenient Truth, Babies, Indie, Environment, Documentary, Harmony, Off Beat, Ecology, Shinto, Animism, Nature, Collecting, Art, Insects, Japan, Love, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Sorta weird how this became the globe-trotter episode. I'd seen Babies a few weeks ago and was going to go with it as the sole focus of the show, then...

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Sanjusangendo

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: History of Japan, Lupin the Third, Sobacha Tea, The Tale of Genji, Flower Arrangement, Robert Greene, Kyoto, Tea Ceremony, Akira Kirosawa, Numerology, Japanese Mythology, The Monk Enchin, Lady Murasaki, Takashi Murakami, Kyu Sakamoto, Pizzicato Five, Bodhisattva, Hinduism, Buddhism, Shinto, Tsutenkaku, Kiyomizudera, Bushido, World News
Daniel Bruno Sanz

Heaven, may I be a Yurikamome amid Chrysanthemum flowers at Gion Matsori? High over Yasaka, show me a bird's eye view of Kannon, the god of mercy Bo...

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One Nation Under Democracy

Michael DeJong | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Jerry Falwell, Scientology, First Amendment, Rovian, Hell, Pat Robertson, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Obama, Rastafarianism, Fundamentalists, Republican Party, Agnosticism, Christians, In God We Trust, Separation of Church and State, Islam, Atheism, World, Beltway Insider, Bahá'í, Presidential Prayer Breakfast, Country, Religion, Confucianism, Jimmy Swaggart, Strange Bedfellows, Jainism, Environment, Hinduism, Buddhism, Neopaganism, Sikhism, Sufism, Wiccanism, Shinto, Politics News
Michael DeJong

One might have thought that Obama would slant more towards the Constitutional First Amendment of Separation of Church and State, and forgo the tradition of "Prayer Breakfasts."

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