The Hungry Ghost Festival is listed as part of China’s ... After praying to the Buddha and Guan Yin, the prayer masters chant as other chanters sprinkle blessed water around the altar to open ...

With Japan’s first full-colour film, Carmen Comes Home, screening around the UK, we dive into the luminous world of Japanese colour filmmaking in the 1950s and early 1960s.

A hungry ghost is different from a regular ghost in ... perpetually hungry even decomposed food will do. According to the Buddha Dharma, there are three main groups of hungry ghosts: those with ...

In his book This Very Body: The Buddha, he claimed that “You have ... with adrenaline during the Rajneeshpuram annual world festival, from which he nearly died. The attempt on Vivek came with ...

What’s better? The entrance is free. Come during the Buddha’s Birthday in May, the Ghost Festival in August, or any other festival. During these times, you get to celebrate and experience the fun of ...

Cross-legged with his eyes half-closed, in a pose evoking the Buddha, this porcelain version of America’s divisive leader-in-waiting is the work of designer and sculptor Hong Jinshi. The Zen ...

the Esala Perahera Festival and the Kartika Festival. Buddha pooja cooked with fresh rice, is offered to the Sacred Tooth Relic under the initiative of the Thera who leads theThewawa, with the ...

The PhotoVogue Festival, the first conscious fashion photography ... Earthrise Studio proudly presents The Ghost Rainforest, a powerful short film following Narubia Werreria and five Indigenous ...

Cross-legged with his eyes half-closed in a pose evoking the Buddha, this porcelain version of America’s divisive leader-in-waiting is the work of designer and sculptor Hong Jinshi. The Zen-like ...

Later in the year during the Hungry Ghost Festival and the Nine Emperor God Festival, I saw my Chinese neighbors display devotion to their gods and spirits by piercing their cheeks with long hooks ...

Shattered, a bare, tumultuous memoir of the first year of Kureishi’s new life, published in the United Kingdom in October ...

It was a different kind of island getaway. Scientists were intrigued after NASA satellites spotted a mysterious “ghost island” that formed and then disappeared just as quickly. The phantom ...