Kona Hongwanji Buddhist Temple celebrated 125 years Saturday and Sunday with a bon dance, craft fair, Chigo parade, service and Affirmation Rites. The first members of the Kona Hongwanji Buddhist ...

Whenever Ai Hironaka, the resident minister of Lahaina Hongwanji Mission, looks at the widely published photo showing the temple burning, he thanks the photographer. After driving his family out of ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — “It is pain for me to see and hear that people around the world suffer from COVID because I have been praying for the ending of the pandemic soon.” Despite his prayers, Rev.

WEST HAWAII — Reverend Sonam Wangdi Bhutia, a Tibetan monk and founder of Nepal’s first Hongwanji Buddhist temple, helped create a thriving new Buddhist community in Kathmandu. This Saturday and ...

Bishop Chikai Yosemori poses with students at the Pacific Buddhist Academy at the Honpa Hongwanji Bestuin Temple in Nuuanu. It was the first Buddhist high school in the U.S., and Yosemori, who died ...

Every summer, Buddhist temples across Hawaiʻi host Obon celebrations, which are open to all and feature traditional dances, ...

OAHU, Hawaii — Most of us know people who say they never attend a traditional church, that their church is in nature. And most of us also know places where such people don’t have to choose. There’s a ...