Kukai (774-835) was a Japanese Buddhist monk who founded the Shingon sect. This great scholar's activities extended beyond the domain of the purely religious, including the building of roads, irrigation canals, and temples. In 794 the city of Heian...

(774–835), Japanese Buddhist monk. Kukai, also known as Kobo Daishi, was born in Shikoku; at age seventeen, he went to Kyoto to attend the university, where he studied Chinese classics. Renouncing the life of the scholar-noble, he became a...

The Founder of the Shingon (q.v.) School of Japanese Buddhism. A religious genius and social reformer, an engineer and artist. He was instrumental, with Dengyō Daishi (q.v.) in establishing the union of Shintō with Buddhism known as...

* Incredible! Lookout Post has MORE FREE TICKETS, this time for "Treasures of a Sacred Mountain: Kukai and Mount Koya," an exhibition being held at the Kyoto National Museum from April 15 to May 25. This year marks 1,200 years since Kukai, the...

The manager of a radio station critical of both the Somali government and the Islamic militants who have been trying to topple it was killed outside his home in the Somali capital, the eighth journalist slain in the country this year.Radio Shabelle's Bashir Nor Gedi,...

The Somali government has shut down three independent radio stations in two days, journalists said Tuesday, as troops backed by Ethiopian soldiers continued to battle Islamic insurgents in the shrapnel-strewn streets of the capital.Radio Simba and Radio Banadir went off the air Tuesday morning, a...