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.

(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 ...

An ancient Buddhist prayer elaborated by Chinese calligrapher Jao Tsung-i will be displayed on giant wooden pillars in the hills behind the Po Lin Monastery on Lantau Island, the government has ...

KYOTO -- Monks and worshippers here began an all-night Buddhist prayer chant at Chion-in, the head temple of Buddhism's Jodo sect, on the evening of April 18. The "Midnight Nembutsu in Gyoki" event is ...

MIDDLETOWN -- Their hands clasped around incense and prayer beads, men, women and children proceeded up 18 steps behind a statue of Buddha Shakyamuni to the Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Center. Some ...