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 ...

YANGON, Myanmar — Amid the towering golden spires of Myanmar's grandest Buddhist shrine there was talk of politics and hope for the future as thousands came last week for the return of an annual ...

A different type of park activity -- Buddhist education -- began quietly and peacefully Saturday afternoon. However, the noise in in Southeast Portland increased an hour into the festival as loud ...

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 ...

More than 1,000 people are expected to gather July 14-15 for the Orange County Buddhist Church’s annual Obon festival, a traditional Japanese celebration that honors ancestors through music and dance.

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 toll of a giant bell at the Palo Alto Buddhist Temple at 5 p.m. Saturday will mark the start of the city’s annual Obon Festival, a two-day celebration of Buddhist and Japanese-American culture.

BUDDHIST monks in ceremonial costumes perform a ritual dance during the first day of the two-day festival at the Hemis monastery, on the outskirts of Leh, India, on July 5. LADAKH, India—One by one, ...

George Jeffus, with the Nichiren Buddhist Temple of Portland, rings a bell 108 times to symbolize the 108 earthly desires at the start of a Portland Buddhist Festival at Colonel Summers Park.