For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. The Japanese monk who loves make-up [Courtesy] As make-up artist Kodo Nishimura sashays ...

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He wants to share with the world "things only I can tell because I'm a homosexual monk." "In Japan, it is not common for people to be torn apart over coming out as an LGBTQ+ because it would go ...

An assistant chief priest at Ryugasan Unmon Temple in Annaka, Gunma Prefecture, is working to become an interfaith chaplain, challenging the traditional view that monks should not be involved at ...

After two years of rigorous training, Nishimura became a monk and now combines that role with his makeup career. In contrast to many major religions, Japanese Buddhism has no opposition to LGBTQ.

The Buddhist monk said he was standing near Kenji Nagai, a Japanese journalist, when he was shot dead while covering the Saffron Revolution in 2007. Ashin Htavara subsequently sought asylum in ...