Among world religions, only Buddhism and Christianity attach a central significance to the role of relics. These two traditions, however, are different in both conceptual and material terms. In ...

For Victor Thach, a 63-year-old San Jose resident who escaped the instability of post-war Vietnam and landed in the United States in 1986, a Buddhist temple on San Jose’s Sunset Court represents a ...

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Iowa’s Buddhist population grew in the last several decades with new places to practice -- Cedar Rapids, Clive, Decorah. Now Indianola. The latest is in Warren County’s county seat of Indianola, where ...