A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed. It happened in Bahía El Águila last Saturday near the San Isidro Lighthouse in the Strait of ...

New York City fire officials say the fire started in the pre-dawn hours Wednesday morning. Workers at the temple tell local news outlets that the fire started at a space heater that was near clothing.

On Sunday, Cardinal Robert McElroy, Bishop Susan Brown Snook and other San Diego religious leaders, in coordination with the ...

Increasing access to treatment may be one area of compromise between Democratic lawmakers and President Donald Trump.

In search of Buddhist conscience (Baudha Hurdasakshiya Soya) (Part II of this article appeared in The Island on Monday – 03) Tissa Ranasinghe’s and Gananath’s Kannagi Gananath’s Pattini book has a ...

Hundreds of people gathered Sunday at a Buddhist temple in downtown Tokyo, eagerly stretching their hands to catch the dried soybeans thrown at them in the hope ...

A new Buddhist Community Center is slated to replace a former 24-Hour fitness facility on Lawrence Avenue in Sunnyvale. Buddhist Americans make up 1% of the nation's population as of 2020, according ...

Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia: Performers entertain tourists on the first day of the Lunar New Year of the Snake at Borobudur Temple, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the largest Buddhist ...

Wisps and clouds of smoke rose into the air at Buddhist and Daoist temples around Asia on Wednesday as people lit incense to pray for good luck in the Year ...

Soha Ali Khan shared photos on Instagram from her family trip to the Kiyomizu-dera temple in Japan with her husband, Kunal Kemmu, and their daughter, Inaaya. Celebrating a decade of marriage ...

Last year, the Thai government sent a letter to the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco requesting the return of four ancient bronze statues depicting Buddhist ... the ruins of a temple in a remote ...

A huge family meal starring yu sheng (a traditional raw fish salad served on New Year’s Day) isn’t the only way to celebrate the advent of the Year of the Snake. Chinese and Thai cultures have ...