Did you know Angkor Wat covers 402 acres? It’s the biggest religious building in the world. Located in Cambodia’s Siem Reap province, it was built in the early 12th century by King Suryavarman II.

KYOTO--Inspired by a priest’s belief that Buddhist practices should evolve, the bodhisattva of compassion and mercy has manifested himself as a robot at a temple here. The android edition of ...

As you do in a Buddhist temple or with a stupa, you circumambulate it, ending where you began. And it’s the image set at the center of the mandala structure that gives the design power.

26 in the city’s Chuo Ward. Founded in the Nara Period (710-784), the temple is a member of the Omuro school of the Shingon sect of Buddhism headquartered at Ninnaji temple in Kyoto. Mitsutera ...