Rosemead, Los Angeles County-- Although he'd been a practicing Buddhist for 20 years, until 10 months ago Dharma Master YongHua hadn't even seen so much as one of the sacred relics known as shariras ...

A pure jade Buddha statue sat eminently on its alabaster altar in the garden of a Vietnamese Buddhist temple in north Aurora — the latest stop on the sacred statue’s ongoing, five-year world tour. At ...

Wearing a serene granite smile, the Buddha looks down on his Gainesville followers from atop a 7-foot-tall globe adorned with dragons and flowers. A message is written in English along the globe’s ...

For about a week, the nuns and community members who pray at Van Hanh Temple had been preparing for Sunday’s Buddha birthday celebration. They weeded the garden, put up a big tent and cooked large ...

In this video, we visit one of Chiang Rai’s most iconic spiritual sites — Wat Huay Pla Klang, home to the towering Giant White Buddha. Set atop a peaceful hill, this majestic statue overlooks the city ...

For centuries, the reign of King Jayavarman VII of Cambodia was mostly lost to history. That was before archaeologists began discovering the evidence of his monarchy in the architecture around them.