Salinas' Buddhist temple has renewed its altar as it looks back at its past, and towards the future. In Buddhist tradition, the temple sent its altar off to Japanese artisans to be restored for its ...
Members sold the building in 1942 as 1,017 Japanese Americans from the Yakima Valley were forced to leave that June for imprisonment at Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming. Only about 10 ...
A prayer altar in the main gathering hall at the temple Wat Ratchapradit in Bangkok, Thailand. Pictures from History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Theravada, which means “the way of the ...
Traditional Buddhist prayer altars are a breathtaking sight. The shrines range in size and ornamentation, but some of the most elaborate ones are spectacles of gold, painted wood, and statuettes that ...
Image of the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room at the Rubin Museum of Art (photo by David de Armas, courtesy the Rubin Museum of Art) One of the oldest Tibetan art collections in the United States arrived ...
A late-night fire engulfed a Garden Grove house that had been converted into a Buddhist temple, resulting in about $450,000 in damage to the property, fire officials said Wednesday. Firefighters think ...