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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Buddhist Church of Sacramento is holding festivities Saturday and Sunday in celebration of Obon, a Japanese Buddhist holiday ...

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 ...

WATSONVILLE — The Obon Festival at the Watsonville Buddhist Temple is an annual celebration of spiritual ancestry and heritage. Festivalgoers spent the day honoring the memory of their descendents on ...

It’s common knowledge that the good people of Boulder love a quality film festival. From the prolific Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema to the award-winning Boulder International Film Festival, to ...

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.

George Jeffus, with the Nichiren Buddhist Temple of Portland, rings a bell 108 times to symbolize the 108 earthly desires at the start of a Portland Buddhist Festival at Colonel Summers Park.

Sri Lankan Buddhist monks have urged the government to ban commercial entertainment programs, which violate Buddhist principles, during an annual festival commemorating the arrival of Buddhism on the ...

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 ...