Buddhists carry star-shaped lanterns in a parade during the Lotus Lantern Festival to celebrate the upcoming birthday of Buddha on May 20, 2023, in Seoul, South Korea. Buddha was born approximately… ...

Souls trembling before judgment, a boiling cauldron and a chance at redemption through a blooming lotus — these striking ...

Brightly lit lotus lanters hang at Jogye Temple. This year Buddha's Birthday falls on May 21, and the Buddhist circle is making various activities along with the annual Lotus Lantern Festival.

In the past few years, variations on the lotus-brandishing Buddha have been turning up everywhere -- fashioned in stone or wood or brass, in Asian antique shops, yoga lifestyle shops and ...

A barn that contained storage, carpentry tools and an ornate Buddhist temple burned to the ground in Scio Township Monday, April 15.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Holding umbrellas and pink paper lotus flowers, thousands of South Koreans joyously filled the wet streets of Seoul in an annual festival anticipating Buddha’s ...

Seven giant lotus lanterns were lit up on Xuan Huong lake on May 3 to mark Buddha’s 2561th birthday as part of activities of the 2017 Buddhist Culture Week.

Watercolours of monks in repose, and enormous canvases of Buddha faces made of lotus flowers make up a new exhibition Fading Faces, opening at Hotel 1961 tomorrow night. Displaying the works of two ...

THE QUANTUM AND THE LOTUS: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet Trinh Xuan Thuan, Matthieu Ricard, . . Crown, $25 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-609-60854-8 ...

Korean folk performers, Lotus Lantern Festival performance groups and International Buddhist communities will put on an eye-catching shows to further escalate the festivity.