If you’ve visited Buddhist temples in Japan, chances are you passed through their entry gates and continued straight to their venerable main halls. Perhaps you admired the architecture, gazed upon ...

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Bells tolled in some 80 Buddhist temples in Japan, China and Korea on Monday to mark the birthday of a ninth-century itinerant Japanese monk and spread his message of peace.

Across cultures and centuries, bells have called people to church, children to school, store clerks to counters, and spirits to quiet attention. At 9 a.m. Wednesday, hundreds of bells from Hawaii and ...