If you're wandering through Sebastopol in the next few weeks and hear a whole lot of commotion at the Enmanji Buddhist Temple, count yourself lucky. It's summertime and this jewel of a temple, with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Drummers perform traditional songs at the Obon Festival at the Buddhist Church in Ogden at a previous year's festival. This photo from July 19, 2014, shows Bon dancing at the annual Obon Festival at ...

(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 ...

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.

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.

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.