From the Hungry Ghosts Scroll at the Kyoto National Museum. The scroll depicts the realm of the hungry ghosts, with this section showing Ananda, nephew and disciple of Shakyamuni Buddha, as a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 14-foot Ghost King, an effigy made of paper and bamboo and imported from China, towers over the crowd at the Hungry Ghost ...

In Buddhist cosmology, one of the psychic domains that is described is the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts. The hungry ghost figures are depicted with scrawny little necks and huge bellies — riddled with ...

Mei Leng Yew’s smart play veers between humour and horror as a young woman ignores her mum’s warning about big life changes during a ghost festival ...

Honoring dead ancestors is a tradition found across cultures—think Mexico’s Día de los Muertos or Japan’s Obon festival. But few observances are as vivid as the Hungry Ghost Festival, which originated ...

A lush, complex novel of migration, sexuality, family and exile, The Hungry Ghosts brings to life the author’s native Sri Lanka and his adopted homeland Canada. From the author of Funny Boy and ...

In this collection of timely essays and incantations, award-winning author May-lee Chai explores the intersection of world history and her own—feeding herself and her ghosts in the process. Drawing ...