(RNS) — Every year, between the sixth and seventh months of the lunar calendar, nomad tribes gather in the tiny Tibetan village of Ser Geyrgo for a prayer festival that is meant to invoke heaven. (RNS ...

Gaya: More than 10,000 Buddhist monks, nuns and devotees participated in the world peace prayer on the opening day of the ...

Nichols Dennis Banks of the Shinnecock Nation visited with the Buddhist monks making a peace walk from Texas during their ...

Japanese monks and more than 100 friends and relatives of victims of the attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 gathered at and near Ground Zero Tuesday night for a Buddhist prayer service ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Novice Buddhist monks offer prayers for peace at the Tergar Monastery, the site of an explosion, in Bodh Gaya, ...

Beating a rock statue of Buddha to wish for a good new year and an abundant harvest, villagers in China’s eastern Fujian province have a unique way of worshipping the deity. Beating a rock statue of ...

LAGUNA BEACH Prayers for compassion filled the Neighborhood Congregational Church this week, taking the form of an intricate sand painting and a butter sculpture. Buddhist monks from the Gaden Jangtse ...

As many as 300,000 Buddhist monks and devotees gathered at 32,000 temples across Thailand to pray for world peace in the wake of the attacks on the U.S. and strikes on Afghanistan, officials said. In ...

A drone picture shows a mask placed on a 57-metre-high statue of Buddhist goddess Kannon to pray for the end of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic at Houkokuji Aizu Betsuin temple in ...