YACHIYO, Japan (AP) — In Japan, where communal ties to local Buddhist temples are fading, families have in recent years been able to go online to find a Buddhist monk to perform funerals and other ...

Death is a shared commonality of the human condition, yet the rituals that attend it vary significantly across cultures and religions. The one commonality is that while the nature of death itself does ...

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The boy and girl mourning their slain father marched in a circle around a funeral altar as Buddhist monks in yellow robes chanted. The children's ritual was in keeping with a Chinese tradition to help ...