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Round and red with scowling expressions, the dolls represent the Bodhidharma (or, “Daruma” in Japanese), the fifth-century monk who founded Zen Buddhism. Followers believe that the monk meditated for ...

At Katsuo-ji Temple, Daruma dolls watch from every corner. They peer between tree branches, cluster around altars, and dot winding pathways, flashes of bright red among the hillside forest.

Katsuo-ji Temple is known as the "Daruma temple" due to its large collection of the dolls. - Rebecca Cairns/CNN ...

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Buddhism has its roots in India and is described as a philosophical tradition based on the teachings of Buddha, a wandering religious teacher who lived in South Asia in the 5th or 6th century B.C.