Thousands of Buddhists from across the globe honored the Holy Birthday of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III (Photo Credit: Michael Gao Shan) On June 14th and 15th, at the Glendale Civic Auditorium in ...

A Lotus Sutra scroll praising the manifold mercies of the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara. Universal Gateway chapter of the Lotus Sutra/Calligrapher: Sugawara Mitsushige/The Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

Kim Kyeong-Ho is an expert in sagyeong, the reproduction by hand of Buddhist sutras. Master Kim sits at a drafting table — bright lights shining down on him — and dozens of people watching him. He’s ...

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What: 59th annual Northwest Buddhism Convention, hosted by the Spokane Buddhist Temple. Theme: "Where the Flower and the Rock Meet: Buddhism in America." Where and when: Davenport Hotel, Friday ...

Remember CDs? For a time, they were the best and essentially only way to get your music fix, before digital distribution basically steamrolled CD sales worldwide. Now everybody uses those CD ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Buddhist sutras are probably the last thing one expects to hear in a dim, smoky jazz club, but climb the narrow stairs up to Sound Music Bar Chippy in Tokyo's Edogawa Ward on the ...

A woman releases a bowl of loaches into the Huangpu River. Photo: Ni Dandan/GT On a sunny Sunday morning this month, on a quiet section of the riverside facing the Bund across the Huangpu River, ...

At Truzing Palace of Norbulingka, a world heritage site in Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, thousands of ancient books featuring various themes are stored on shelves. All the old books are ...

The gig began with a nun chanting on stage but suddenly erupted into a wall of noise unleashed by distorted guitars and screamed sutras -- the unique sound of Taiwan's first Buddhist death metal band.