Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Buddhist monk Taigen Yokoyama demonstrates his karate technique by breaking tiles at the Life Ending Industry Expo in Tokyo, on ...

Japanese monks competed based on their inner beauty at a funeral expo to compete in the second annual "Most Handsome Monk Contest" on Monday (August 22). Spectators voted for the monk who was the most ...

Japanese Buddhist monks strutted their stuff Wednesday in a contest highlighting sutra chanting skills, giving funeral sermons and, surprisingly, loud karate chops. The contest, held on the sidelines ...