Samurai once lived in Buddhist temples here, Nagashima explained, working as security guards called boukan.
In my case, my visit was primarily driven by an innate love for Buddhist temples.
In the distance a tractor rumbled, and scratchy music wafted from speakers at a nearby Buddhist festival.
In a similar attack in 2001, the Taliban destroyed ancient Buddhist relics in Afghanistan.
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?
Occasional isolated violence involving Myanmar's majority Buddhist and minority Muslim communities has occurred for decades.
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.
Tension remains high between the Buddhist Rakhine and minority Muslim Rohingya communities in the state.
But Mr Koizumi's junior coalition partner, the Buddhist-backed New Komeito, has balked at the idea.
The men were convicted of raping and killing a Buddhist woman in Rakhine state last month.
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.
Like them, they control the Buddhist religion by claiming a right to select lamas.
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.
Tawang is a centre of Tibet's Buddhist culture, with one of the biggest Tibetan monasteries outside Lhasa.
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.
These Buddhist warriors struggle to maintain their religious convictions of compassion and nonviolence while challenging powerful autocratic regimes.
They have been displaced since violent clashes between Rakhine's Muslim and Buddhist communities in June and October 2012.
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