(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 ...

Cambridge, MA. I recently was asked to offer a closing prayer at a parish event where the speaker was Professor Paul F. Knitter, a distinguished Catholic theologian and the Tillich Professor of ...

A devotee knelt and gently touched his head on the dome of the Boudhanath Stupa, an iconic Buddhist monument in Kathmandu, as a mark of reverence on Thursday, which marks the birth of Buddha. The ...

"Liberation from Sorrow" prayers are a wonderfully powerful and meaningful way to set a strong intention of compassion for all living beings for the new year. Tara is a female Buddha, a manifestation ...

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.

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 ...

The sacred relics of Lord Buddha, a “goodwill gift” from India to Bhutan during the 16-day Global Peace Prayer Festival (GPPF), reached Thimphu on Saturday (November 8, 2025), ahead of Prime Minister ...