Japan Buddhist monk bar has heaven- and hell-inspired drinks, offers beating service

Offbeat drinking venue provides everything from calligraphy to a ‘coffin’ experience in bid to popularise Buddhist culture.

Japan Buddhist monk bar serves drinks inspired by heaven and hell offers beating service

Offbeat drinking venue provides everything from calligraphy to a ‘coffin’ experience in bid to popularise Buddhist culture.

Every three steps, one bow: More than 7,000 devotees perform Buddhist ceremony to mark Wesak Day

SINGAPORE: Hours before Wesak Day, more than 7,000 Buddhists walked around the Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery in ...

Buddhist pathway to gaining merit

Before dawn breaks tomorrow over the Buddhist Maha Vihara temple in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur, 67-year-old former teacher D.

US-born teen Buddhist lama studies near Himalayas to become a monk

U.S.-born Buddhist lama Jalue Dorje smiles as he blesses people by tapping bowed heads with a ritual vase and a peacock feather at the end of 12 days of empowerments, or initiation rituals and ...

Teen Buddhist lama from Minnesota is now a monk studying in the Himalayan foothills

At a monastery in the Himalayan foothills, a teenage Buddhist lama blesses thousands. Just six months earlier, thousands of ...
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Tawang: The Buddhist monastery town in India that looks like it belongs in Tibet

Tucked away in Arunachal Pradesh near the Indo China border, Tawang is not your usual Himalayan getaway. It is vast, remote, ...

Thousands gather at temple for Wesak Day meal distribution

MELAKA: Long queues formed at Seck Kia Eenh Buddhist Temple (SKE) in Gajah Berang here as thousands gathered for free vegetarian meals offered in conjunction with the upcoming Wesak Day celebration.