Most of them are young and modishly dressed. They kneel Oriental-style on a living-room floor in West Hollywood, some 20 strong, facing a homemade altar and rolling Buddhist prayer beads between their ...

Jan Bright is the guardian of about 30 abandoned and/or feral cats and kittens in Berkeley. She tames the felines by chanting Tibetan Buddhist prayers so that they can be fixed and adopted out to ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X A low, grounded Buddhist chant to unleash compassion and a long, melodious reading of verses from ...

On Tuesday night, Jan. 31, the Monterey Park memorial was filled with the smell of incense, the ringing of bells and the rhythm of chants as the community came together to honor those killed at Star ...

The local Buddhist community rang in the New Year with prayer and the setting of intentions. Nearly three dozen members of Shreveport-Bossier’s chapter of Soka Gakkai International gathered on Jan. 1 ...

Reporting from Shand Khiid, Mongolia — In the crimson-painted interior of a monastery in central Mongolia, boys as young as 6 face one another cross-legged on benches and chant Tibetan Buddhist ...

ORLANDO — The bell tolled. It tolled and tolled and tolled. The only other sounds in the sanctuary of First United Methodist Church of Orlando on Tuesday night were muffled tears as photos of the ...