By SUZUKA TOMINAGA/ Staff Writer
April 8, 2023 at 07:00 JST
Monk Tensho Goto puts his palms together in prayer with Mindar, the robotic version of the Kannon bodhisattva, on Feb. 6 at Kodaiji temple in Kyoto’s Higashiyama Ward. (Suzuka Tominaga)
KYOTO--Inspired by a priest’s belief that Buddhist practices should evolve, the bodhisattva of compassion and mercy has manifested himself as a robot at a temple here. [Read More]
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