(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As world governments meet here to discuss global wildlife trade, revered Thai Buddhist leaders today held the first-ever Buddhist merit-making ceremony to pray for the tens of thousands of elephants ...

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 ...

Korean monks recite a joint prayer. In Seoul, 10,000 people prayed in the city’s most important temple. Top monk appeals to South Koreans to become one in bringing peace. President Moon asks Buddhists ...

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 ...

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, ...

A look at life in Kagyu Samye Ling Buddhist monastery in Dumfries and Galloway. Prayer and meditation are important parts of each day. When Buddhists pray they pray to the Buddha or other enlightened ...