If you're wandering through Sebastopol in the next few weeks and hear a whole lot of commotion at the Enmanji Buddhist Temple, count yourself lucky. It's summertime and this jewel of a temple, with ...

Obon, the festival of the lanterns in Sebastopol, draws hundreds, many of Japanese descent. Many have been coming to memorialize loved ones for decades. Lines of paper electric lanterns hung over the ...

A different type of park activity -- Buddhist education -- began quietly and peacefully Saturday afternoon. However, the noise in in Southeast Portland increased an hour into the festival as loud ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — The Spokane Buddhist Temple is hosting an Obon Japanese Buddhist Festival on Sunday, August 18 from 2 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Grant Park. The festival is meant to honor the spirits of a ...

LADAKH, India (AP) — One by one, 13 Buddhist monks wearing brightly colored silk costumes and wide-brimmed black hats, stepped onto the rectangular courtyard of the Hemis monastery. They began a ...

BANGKOK – Religion can be a tough sell nowadays, so instead of waiting for disciples to make their way to temple, some promoters brought 36 films with Buddhist themes to the heart of modern Thailand ...

The Buddhist Church of Sacramento is holding festivities Saturday and Sunday in celebration of Obon, a Japanese Buddhist holiday commemorating the dead and honoring ancestors. In Japan, Obon, an ...

YANGON, Myanmar — Amid the towering golden spires of Myanmar's grandest Buddhist shrine there was talk of politics and hope for the future as thousands came last week for the return of an annual ...

Obon — a Japanese Buddhist festival that honors the dead — is one of the city’s longest-running cultural events, dating back certainly to the post-World War II period and probably back to the 1930s.

The toll of a giant bell at the Palo Alto Buddhist Temple at 5 p.m. Saturday will mark the start of the city’s annual Obon Festival, a two-day celebration of Buddhist and Japanese-American culture.

More than 1,000 people are expected to gather July 14-15 for the Orange County Buddhist Church’s annual Obon festival, a traditional Japanese celebration that honors ancestors through music and dance.