Explore the ancient walled city of Lo Manthang in Upper Mustang, where Tibetan Buddhist heritage, monasteries, and living traditions endure.

The Buddhist word tsewa is translated as “tenderness,” although it conveys multiple meanings of generosity and gratitude.

Saturday Vespers: presented by St. Nicholas Orthodox Church at 6 p.m. in person at 102 Ross Ave. in San Anselmo and on YouTube at stnicholasmarin.org. Thursday Great vespers: presented by St. Nicholas ...

On Friday, the monks set out toward Apex to make a stop and participate in a ceremony with the town before heading to ...

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

By Kathy Chouteau From offering prayers at Grateful Dead guitarist Bobby Weir’s upcoming “Homecoming” service, to giving away box lunches to the East Bay’s unhoused, the Venerable Thupten Donyo, ...

A group of Buddhist monks is walking for peace from Texas to the White House in Washington, DC. Nearly two dozen monks from the Huong Dao Vipassana Bhavana Center in Fort Worth, led by Bhikkhu ...

A group of Buddhist monks is walking from Texas to Washington, D.C., spreading a message of peace and gaining supporters as they stop in local communities along the way.

The trek from Texas to Washington, D.C. includes stops in the Rock Hill region as the monks walk from Columbia to Charlotte.

Dozens of worshipers took a deep breath and a brave plunge into icy waters at a Tokyo shrine Sunday, keeping afloat a New ...

Yes, Alabama does have monks. The state’s only male monastic community lives at St. Bernard Abbey in Cullman, home to 30 Benedictine monks. There are also cloistered Dominican nuns at the Dominican ...

Monks are individuals devoted to religious servitude, and they are not specific to any one religion. Here are the abbeys and temples of Louisiana.