Jizo statues and graves at Okunoin of Mount Koya, a sacred Buddhist site and cemetery. Opened in 835, it houses the mausoleum of Kūkai, founder of the Shingon school of esoteric Buddhism, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, East Asia

Jizo statues and graves at Okunoin of Mount Koya, a sacred Buddhist site and cemetery. Opened in 835, it houses the mausoleum of Kūkai, founder of the Shingon school of esoteric Buddhism, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, East Asia

Jizo statues and graves at Okunoin of Mount Koya, a sacred Buddhist site and cemetery. Opened in 835, it houses the mausoleum of Kūkai, founder of the Shingon school of esoteric Buddhism, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, East Asia

Aleta Thamae, a traditional sangoma posing in her consultation room in her house in the township of Refilwe near Cullinan in South Africa.

Aleta Thamae, a traditional sangoma, throwing various objects she will use to give a reading in her consultation room in her home in the township of Refilwe near Cullinan in South Africa.

Voodo ceremony at Akodessewa fetish Market.

Fengshui manufacture and craft of Feng Shui compasses, geomancy, the Loupan in Chinese, China, Asia

Woman spreads her arms and enjoys the sun, Kiel Bay, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

A Bhuddist monk walks through a snow flurry in Koyasan, a centre for Shingon Esoteric Buddhism, Koyasan, Osaka, Japan