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 ...

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 ...

Hundreds of community members – some wearing traditional clothes such as happi coats or summer kimono called yukata – gathered this weekend at the Palo Alto Buddhist Temple to celebrate the Obon ...

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.

In Tripura, festivals are not confined to temples or tribal courtyards, they spill into streets, marketplaces, and homes, becoming collective expressions of joy, faith, and identity.

3:45 p.m. “Discovering Elegance,” film starring Naropa co-founder Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, followed by an ikebana performance by Alexandra Shenpen 4:10 p.m. “The Next Guardian,” documentary about a ...

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 ...

Community members play taiko, or Japanese drums, at a Bon Odori dance practice in preparation for Obon on Thursday, July 11, 2024. Esther Sun The Sacramento Bee The Buddhist Church of Sacramento is ...