Memorial services held online. Zen meditation apps. Buddhist temple-led match-making services. As the coronavirus pandemic forces institutions around the world to change the way they do things, those ...

Temple chief priest Bungen Oi holds a Sony pet robot AIBO after a robots' funeral at the Kofukuji temple in Isumi, Chiba on April 26, 2018. Credit: NICOLAS DATICHE/AFP/Getty Images Over 100 dogs just ...

Each year, monks from Shinguji, a temple in the town of Yao, Osaka Prefecture that was founded in the late 17th century, hold a massive funeral service. Last year’s ceremony was to celebrate and put ...

TOKYO, Aug 23 (Reuters) - A Japanese company has introduced a new role for SoftBank's humanoid robot "Pepper" - a Buddhist priest for hire at funerals. Chanting sutras in a computerized voice while ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - An orange-robed monk chanted as a teary-eyed, black-clad family prayed quietly in front of a crematorium. A normal Buddhist funeral service in Thailand except for one thing -- the ...

A Buddhist monk Kaichi Watanabe speaks Jan. 24 to the Uematsu family who lost a family member during a memorial ceremony at a funeral hall in Yachiyo, east of Tokyo. In Japan, where communal ties to ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Members of the Lao Buddhist Temple on East Chew Ave in Philadelphia's Olney neighborhood returned from a funeral service on October 7 to find almost every room ransacked and ...

You can hear a sermon about the Heart Sutra at almost any Buddhist temple. But at one house of worship in Japan, it's delivered by a robot. Mindar, a 6-foot-tall, gender-neutral android modeled after ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Nestled between a defunct bike shop and a vacuum store, the Ann Arbor Zen Buddhist Temple is easy ...

Memorial services held online. Zen meditation apps. Buddhist temple-led matchmaking services. As the coronavirus pandemic forces institutions around the world to change the way they do things, those ...