It’s Friday and my alarm goes off at 4 a.m. I shower, brush my teeth and I’m out the door into the brisk air. I pick up two friends who are crazy enough to join me on this early morning adventure.

(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 ...

An ancient Buddhist prayer elaborated by Chinese calligrapher Jao Tsung-i will be displayed on giant wooden pillars in the hills behind the Po Lin Monastery on Lantau Island, the government has ...

Gangtok, June 3: Buddhists today celebrated Saga Dawa, considered the holiest of religious festivals in the state. Saga Dawa is celebrated in the fourth month of the Buddhist lunar calendar, the ...

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 ...

GAYA: The 2564th Buddha Jayanti, the rare triple coincidence of Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and salvation taking place on the same summer full moon day was celebrated in Mahabodhi Temple, the seat ...

MIDDLETOWN -- Their hands clasped around incense and prayer beads, men, women and children proceeded up 18 steps behind a statue of Buddha Shakyamuni to the Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Center. Some ...

As more than 1,000 Muslims gathered at the Abdul Razak Mosque in Eunos for prayer yesterday morning, volunteers from nearby Buddhist organisation Shinnyo-en Singapore helped to organise a partial road ...