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 ...

A low, grounded Buddhist chant to unleash compassion and a long, melodious reading of verses from the Koran were very unlikely to have been heard at Trinity Episcopal Church on the Green when that ...

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 ...

GRAFTON -- Jun Yasuda, a Buddhist nun from Japan, tapped a gong Tuesday and its low drone filled a rustic temple and red-hued shrine as she chanted and prayed for the victims of the catastrophic ...

Dennis Sage never planned on becoming a Buddhist. He used to consider himself not a particularly religious or philosophical person. When he was introduced to the Nichiren school of Buddhism in 1979, ...

Before sunrise in Ruther Glen, a quiet prayer led by Buddhist monks on the Walk for Peace draws supporters searching for hope ...