Monks at Musikfest will set the tone for a peaceful yet energetic festival this year. The Tibetan monks of the Drepung Loseling Monastery will perform for several days, starting with a mandala sand ...

A pulsating cosmopolis of 10 million, Bangkok at times seems like the most unlikely Buddhist city on earth, despite the glittering spires of its famed shrines and temples. It’s tempting to view the ...

Salina? The journey toward nirvana begins early for the Buddhist monks at their temple compound northwest of Salina. A Buddhist monk carries American and Kansas flags at daybreak Friday, Oct. 28, 2011 ...

GARY | Eight Tibetan monks sat cross-legged on a floor around a cobalt blue square mat where cups of rainbow-colored sand sat on trays. The monks wrapped themselves in gold-colored fabric and closed ...

A bell tolls at first light. The old timber "nightingale" floors chirp under stockinged feet, there's a whisper of saffron and black robes, a rumour of conversation and the monks enter the temple.

Hong Dirienzo clasped her hands together and knelt with her face to the wooden floor of the Sawdust Art & Craft Festival’s Healy House as the guttural chanting of seven Tibetan monks rose around her, ...

The Buddhist monk is a frenetic college student. A devotee calls him the “Sri Lankan Spitfire,” a nickname befitting the short man dressed in jeans and gym shoes hurrying between classes at McHenry ...

THREE RIVERS -- I arrived for my monastery stay just in time for pot pie and steamed cauliflower, eaten in silence to a lesson on ... Monopoly. While we eat -- me alone at a large banquet table and ...

A Shugendo ceremony on the outskirts of Tokyo shows Daniel Stables a wilder, more visceral side to the Japanese temple ...

SALINA — The journey toward nirvana begins early for the Buddhist monks at their temple compound northwest of Salina. The four orange-robed “Buddha men” stir before 6 a.m. One by one they descend the ...