Buddha’s Birthday is a national holiday in South Korea. The highlight of the celebration in Seoul is the Lotus Lantern Festival, a parade of thousands of colourful, lighted paper lanterns often ...

When Buddhist temples fed pilgrims or tourists the porridge, they usually cooked rice with peanuts, dates, chestnuts, longan, lotus seeds, walnuts, red beans, ginkgo, and soy beans. Because it ...

That makes the Blue Lotus a bit unique, she said. Lewke, who also helps lead Refuge Recovery, a 12-step program based on ...

A Vietnamese Buddhist monk who escaped persecution in his homeland realizes his goal of creating a new center in which to ...

Buddhism comes in many forms, but in Japan it stands apart from all the rest in one most striking way--the monks get married. In Neither Monk nor Layman, the most comprehensive study of this topic in ...

In Korea the birthday of Buddha is celebrated according to the lunar calendar. This day is called “Seokga tansinil”, meaning "Buddha's birthday" or “Bucheonim osin nal” meaning "the day when the ...

Statues of the Buddha, Bodhi trees, and lotus flowers. They’re all important symbols of Buddhism - the religion followed by Buddhists. Buddhism is one of the largest religions in the world.

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A model of the Seven Pagoda Temple in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, at the Sixth World Buddhist Forum. [Photo by Lin Qi/China Daily] Among these who made a name for themselves in Chinese art history ...

Mahayana close Mahayana BuddhismOne of the major schools of Buddhism, it includes Tibetan and Zen Buddhism. Buddhists celebrate the birth, enlightenment and death of the Buddha on three different ...

Three themed exhibitions are opened on Tuesday at Mount Xuedou, in Ningbo, East China's Zhejiang province, to trace the spread of Buddhism in the country and the manifestation of its ideas and ...