Gong Xi Fa Cai (may you have a prosperous year) Jakarta (ANTARA) – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan visited the Bio Hok Tek Tjeng Sin temple on Tuesday in Kebayoran Lama, South Jakarta, and conveyed Chinese New Year greetings to visitors praying at the temple. “We visit Bio Hok Tek Tjeng Sin to welcome visitors and […]
Sunday may have witnessed a Covid-induced lockdown in Tamil Nadu, but that didn’t deter more than 90 couples from getting married at a revered Vaishnavite shrine near here on January 23 with the roads outside exterior of the Tiruvanthipuram Sri Devanathaswamy temple welcoming individuals who have tied the knot during the ongoing ‘Thai’ Tamil auspicious […]
Tamil Nadu: Holding weddings at this Cuddalore shrine is considered auspicious. (Representative) Chenai: Weddings were performed by priests on roads outside a popular temple in Cuddalore district as places of worship were closed due to COVID restrictions and a shutdown was observed in Tamil Nadu on Sunday to combat the spread of the virus . […]
Janice Noga plays a Romanian Holocaust survivor in “Janka”. The film is based on the real experience of his own mother-in-law. The film adaptation of the play premieres at Hanford’s Temple Theater January 14-16. Contributed Janice Noga has performed the solo piece “Janka” almost 200 times, but soon the piece will be seen in a […]
Deoghar and Dumka administrations step up measures to manage crowds amid Covid concerns Our correspondent | Ranchi | Posted on 12/24/21, 8:35 PM Entrance of unvaccinated people to the famous Baba Baidyanath dham and Basukinath temple will not allow unvaccinated people to visit Lord Shiva’s mansions in Deoghar and next to Dumka on New Year’s […]
By Aimee Lewis Souche The Japanese word “shinnyo-en” is defined as a garden open to all, where everyone can discover and bring out their true nature. This description matches precisely a 26-acre location in Redwood City that is occupied by the US headquarters of an international Buddhist community of the same name. The main temple […]
TIRUCHI The “Samaya Noolagam” (library containing Hindu religious books) operating in the Srirangam Sri Ranganathaswamy temple has been given a makeover and other books have been added to its existing collections, thanks to the contribution of some donors. The library with a collection of books in Tamil, Sanskrit and English will be open to the […]
NADIYAH TIMMONS // NEWS FROM THE TEMPLE Although Haviva Landis failed to make latkes and light the menorah with her family, she was grateful that she could still celebrate with other Jewish students on the Chabad House campus. For the first, sixth and eighth nights of Chanukah, Landis traveled to Chabad, where Rabbi Baruch Kantor […]
Korean tripitaka wood engravings in Haein-sa. On whc.unesco.org the Korean tripitaka, a collection of Buddhist scriptures carved from more than 80,000 wooden printing blocks and reputed to be the oldest and largest extant collection of its kind, will be open to the public from the end of the month, announced the Korean temple housing sacred […]
WESTMINSTER, Colorado (CBS4) – Construction of a new Lao Buddhist temple continues almost 10 years after a fire destroyed the place of worship that a community relied on to gather for cultural traditions and celebrations. (file photo credit: CBS) READ MORE: Annie Potts and Montana Jordan set to “get even more trouble” on brand new […]
From koreaherald.com Officials from the Tongdo Temple in South Korea enshrined a bronze statue of the Buddha donated by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations in a ceremony Sunday in the city of Yangsan, some 420 kilometers southeast of Seoul. The occasion was attended by temple monks and Indian Ambassador to South Korea Sripriya Ranganathan. […]
Voinea Gratiani Miclescu (© Benton County Sheriff’s Office) A Vietnamese Buddhist temple in Rogers, Benton County, Arkansas, United States was recently robbed by six Romanian nationalists. The suspects were Marta Chicui, 36, from California, United States, Floarea Miclescu, 39, from California, Voinea Gratiani Miclescu, 40, from California, Francisca Velcu, 43, from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United […]
The White River Buddhist Temple issued the following statement announcing the cancellation of its annual Bon Odori in person due to the COVID-19 pandemic: For the first time in fifty years, the White River Buddhist Temple will not be hosting its annual Bon Odori festival in person this year. While the temple traditionally holds its […]
Image from gofundme.com A man was arrested for destroying three Buddha statues on Sunday April 5 at Wat Lao Santitham, a Buddhist temple in the town of Fort Smith, Arkansas. Shawn Michael Israel, 21, was caught by police cameras at the temple with a hammer in his hand. Israel is heard saying that the statues […]