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 ...

(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 ...

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, ...

Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], Dec 26 (ANI): Tibetan Buddhists in Shimla on Wednesday organised prayers for world peace, to dispel the evils of the previous year, and bring good luck for the ...

A photo taken by Tran Tuan Viet of a Buddhist ritual has been selected among 70 best shots of the year by National Geographic. ‘Buddhist Prayers’ captures the scene of hundreds of Buddhist followers ...

Cambridge, MA. I recently was asked to offer a closing prayer at a parish event where the speaker was Professor Paul F. Knitter, a distinguished Catholic theologian and the Tillich Professor of ...

Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], July 6 (ANI): On the occasion of the 89th birthday of Buddhist spiritual leader the 14th Dalai Lama, the Tibet Monastery in Shimla echoed with special prayers and ...

BANGKOK — A day after they charmed and moved the world at an emotive press briefing, the boys and soccer coach rescued from a flooded cave in Chiang Rai, Thailand, are preparing to become Buddhist ...

Prayers are being held at a Buddhist temple in Dumfries and Galloway to celebrate the life of co-founder Akong Rinpoche, who was killed last year. Last year, Buddhist monk Dr Choje Akong Rinpoche was ...

At a monastery in the Himalayan foothills, a teenage Buddhist lama blesses thousands. Just six months earlier, thousands of ...

Queen Chao Khun Phra Sineenat Bilaskalayani, the Royal Noble Consort of King Maha Vajiralongkorn of Thailand, visited Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh to offer prayers at prominent Buddhist religious sites ...