An annual event fusing ancient Japanese belief in ancestral spirits and a Buddhist custom honoring ancestors returns to the ...

Obon is a summertime ritual when Japanese people welcome ancestors' spirits home from the Buddhist Pure Land. The people of Nagasaki have a distinctive way to commemorate this. They light ...

August kicks off with the AAA & CCC 15th Annual Soul Food Festival and the Stockton Buddhist Temple annual Obon Odori & ...

Dancing begins both nights at 7:45 p.m. Buddhist temples hold the festivals ... Makawao Hongwanji Mission is holding the second day of its Obon festival Saturday, with the food concession opening ...

When Nishiyama changed flights, an airline employee was grateful because many people, eager to travel in the midsummer obon holidays ... Ward and eagerly studied Buddhism and other religions.

Lahaina Jodo Mission will celebrate its first public Obon Festival since the pandemic on July 1. The Obon service will begin at 6:30 p.m., followed by a floating lanterns procession and ceremony ...