Khmer people in southern Vietnam are celebrating the Sen Dolta Festival, an occasion to worship and show gratitude to their ...

Buddhist altar maker Hasegawa is broadening its end-of-life services to include referrals to elderly care facilities. This ...

In factory towns like Sioux City, Iowa, home to a massive Tyson Foods plant, restaurants form a delicious support network for ...

Plans were submitted the previous year by religious leaders at the church to demolish it and turn the site into three homes ... will help install a Buddha altar, bathroom, damp proofing ...

Details from the Minneapolis Institute of Art's "Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room," featuring more than 200 new pieces of Buddhist art and religious objects, donated by New York-based collector Alice S.

His detailed account of monastic rules and practices is valuable for the study of Buddhism and Buddhist literature of the period as many of the sources he cited are now lost. [9] ...

A family altar is a miniature representation of the Buddhist Pure Land paradise ... of the bones and ashes—of their loved ones at home. Some are adopting more personal approaches to ...

Amami often finds herself speaking in soft tones to the portraits of her deceased sister and three children lined up on a Buddhist altar at her home in Aichi Prefecture. Every morning, she offers the ...

"Soot removal" is an annual event at Japanese temples, where monks and worshippers wipe dust from altars and clean buildings. "Usually we use bamboo brooms, but they are just too small for this Buddha ...