Local Buddhists recently promoted the benefits of vegetarianism by taking a festive approach. The Veggie Festival on Saturday at Buddha Mind Monastery, 5800 S Anderson Road, offered up a variety of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Buddha Purnima 2025: Buddha's Birthday, also called Buddha Jayanti or Buddha Day, is a major Buddhist festival observed across much of South, Southeast, and East Asia. The sacred occasion of Buddha ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...