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A Tokyo bar run by Buddhist monks has become an online sensation for its unusual blend of cocktails, chanting and death-themed rituals.<\/p>\n

At the Vowz Bar in the city\u2019s Shinjuku district, patrons can sip drinks inspired by heaven and hell, seek life advice from the monk staff and listen to sutras performed in a modern musical style.<\/p>\n

According to a Chinese visitor @kaolababyy, the menu features cocktails such as \u201cNirvana in the Pure Land\u201d, \u201cNever Ending Suffering in Hell\u201d and \u201cLove and Hate leading to Hell\u201d, each priced at 1,000 yen (US$6).<\/p>\n

The drinks combine fruits and spirits to create sweet, sour and spicy flavours, and are served with incense stick-shaped snacks.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe interior of the Buddhist-themed bar in Tokyo\u2019s Shinjuku district. Photo: averylives<\/p>\n

Guests can also try brush calligraphy while waiting for their orders, with handwritten characters by past visitors covering the ceiling and adding to the bar\u2019s offbeat atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Tokyo bar run by Buddhist monks has become an online sensation for its unusual blend of cocktails,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[65184,1368,7437,14513,102610,6795,5597,218537,218518,218527,107914,107915,3400,189436,218516,1020,24529,218534,5601,1503,3397,3190,218540,25105,59814,58574,14476,12326,7486,135139,146,60035,13123,7593,218525,83822,4505,143780,218529,19975,218528,108616,143407,18566,85,218526,46,1437,17762,24754,63491,1854,218536,218544,218538,7193,25476,218522,35013,218520,218514,4719,1550,13164,27531,5475,3414,218541,279,85020,54934,218519,15878,119936,218545,106291,67900,218530,3076,7319,218531,218517,218535,197045,30123,6379,119377,172134,26668,2460,218524,145,93861,218523,6936,207025,117551,86335,218521,218539,186248,1880,3418,218543,75336,29335,218542,2059,40634,218532,218515,36168,28616,5175,14074,218533],"class_list":["post-470013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-accessible","tag-advice","tag-alcohol","tag-alcoholic","tag-alert","tag-atmosphere","tag-bar","tag-bartender","tag-blen","tag-brush","tag-buddhism","tag-buddhist","tag-calligraphy","tag-calming","tag-chanting","tag-characters","tag-cocktails","tag-coffin","tag-concept","tag-culture","tag-customers","tag-death","tag-difficulties","tag-district","tag-domestic-violence","tag-drinkers","tag-drinking","tag-drinks","tag-eat","tag-effect","tag-entertainment","tag-experiences","tag-faith","tag-fish","tag-flavours","tag-flower","tag-fruit","tag-genuine","tag-guests","tag-guidance","tag-handwritten","tag-hate","tag-heaven","tag-hell","tag-il","tag-incense","tag-israel","tag-japan","tag-japanese","tag-kyoto","tag-limited","tag-love","tag-lying","tag-macho","tag-marry","tag-meat","tag-meditation","tag-menu","tag-mind","tag-moderm","tag-monks","tag-muscle","tag-musical","tag-nirvana","tag-offbeat","tag-online","tag-orders","tag-ornaments","tag-overseas","tag-owner","tag-part-time","tag-patrons","tag-photographs","tag-posing","tag-princess","tag-problems","tag-pure","tag-purified","tag-relationships","tag-religion","tag-reservations","tag-rituals","tag-robe","tag-sensation","tag-servers","tag-service","tag-session","tag-shirts","tag-snacks","tag-social-media","tag-sour","tag-space","tag-spicy","tag-spirits","tag-staff","tag-stick","tag-struggling","tag-sweet","tag-syle","tag-teachings","tag-themed","tag-tokyo","tag-tourist","tag-unconventional","tag-unusual","tag-venue","tag-victim-support","tag-video","tag-visitor","tag-whip","tag-whipping","tag-white","tag-wild","tag-woman","tag-wooden","tag-zen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}