Tsubosakadera temple in Takatori, Nara Prefecture, is known as a place where people can come to pray for eye diseases to be ...

Its main object of worship is a statue of the 11-faced, thousand-armed Kannon Bodhisattva - also called the Kannon of the Eyes - as praying to the statue is believed to be effective in curing eye ...

Oyamatsu named his statue the “St. Mary Kannon of Hara Castle.” The name contains reference to Maria Kannon, or images of Virgin Mary in the guise of the Kannon deity of Buddhism, which hidden ...

“It is high time for Buddhist statues to speak and look into people’s eyes.” Thus, Ishiguro’s lab created an android. As Kannon is thought to transform into all kinds of objects, the ...

Photos of a massive red shrine gate that appears to be floating in the sea is one of the most iconic images of Japan. The gate is the great torii of Itsukushima Shrine on the small island in the Seto ...

The Senso-ji Temple is dedicated to Asakusa Kannon, the Buddhist god of mercy and happiness. According to legend, two fishermen struck gold and found a statue of the god while fishing on the ...

And lining its lengthy walls is a rare full set of 1,000 wooden statues of Kannon, the Buddhist goddess of mercy. The human-sized statues were carved from Japanese cypress in the 12th and 13th ...