Buddhism does not center on a creator god, but that doesn’t make it atheist in the modern sense. The Buddha avoided ...

(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 ...

Japanese monks and more than 100 friends and relatives of victims of the attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 gathered at and near Ground Zero Tuesday night for a Buddhist prayer service ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Novice Buddhist monks offer prayers for peace at the Tergar Monastery, the site of an explosion, in Bodh Gaya, ...

In a spectacular display of unity, Bodh Gaya launched the 10-day 37th Nyingma Monlam Chenmo, drawing more than 10,000 Buddhist monks, nuns, and devotees for a powerful prayer for world peace.

As many as 300,000 Buddhist monks and devotees gathered at 32,000 temples across Thailand to pray for world peace in the wake of the attacks on the U.S. and strikes on Afghanistan, officials said. In ...

The unusual performance took place during a prayer competition organised by the Jogye Order, the largest Buddhist order in the Asian country. We "wanted more young people to take an interest in ...