Do you mechanically ring the bell when you visit a temple? If so, you may not know the spiritual significance behind it.

A Call to Center Yourself The first reason we ring the bell is deeply personal, though often overlooked: it serves as a ...

KYOTO--Priests at Chion-in temple here tolled a 70-ton bell, said to be one of Japan’s three largest temple bells, in a dry run to ring out a year overshadowed by wars overseas. The Dec. 27 ...

He was recently working on a bell for a temple in Ibaraki Prefecture to be delivered next spring. “It was not like this in the past,” Motoi said, looking around the workplace. “There used to ...