The origins of Kaua‘i’s Soto Zen Buddhist Temple date back to McBryde Sugar Co.’s Wahiawa Camp in 1903, the year the Rev. Ryoun Kan arrived there to begin preaching Soto Zen Buddhism in Tsuneo Takai’s ...
After a fire in December ravaged the Lao Buddhist Temple in Westminster, Colorado, the Laoist population of Westminster now seeks to rebuild their temple that is at the heart of their community. The ...
On Sundays, dozens of Buddhist temple members join together to sing songs, or gathas, in a small room at Densho in Seattle’s Central District neighborhood. But the local nonprofit building isn’t the ...
Refugees escape genocide in Cambodia and build America's largest Buddhist temple. Thousands of Cambodians fled genocide in their home country, many arriving in Minnesota in the 1980s. Minnesota's ...
A Buddhist hall on Japan’s Miyajima Island that housed an “eternal flame” believed to have burned for more than 1,000 years ...