Priests at ancient Enryakuji temple on Mount Hieizan overlooking Kyoto are playing the role of detective in trying to solve a mystery that turned up in their collection of Buddhist deities.

the king of the gods and guardian of Buddhism, was at the head of the pantheon. The cult of Thirty-Six Lords therefore became the cult of the Thirty-Seven Lords, and Anawrahta replaced some of the ...

it maintains that relic worship was less sectarian than previous scholarship has argued; rather, it often combined relics from various temples and iconography from across the Buddhist pantheon ...