(RNS) — Every year, between the sixth and seventh months of the lunar calendar, nomad tribes gather in the tiny Tibetan village of Ser Geyrgo for a prayer festival that is meant to invoke heaven. (RNS ...

GRAFTON -- Jun Yasuda, a Buddhist nun from Japan, tapped a gong Tuesday and its low drone filled a rustic temple and red-hued shrine as she chanted and prayed for the victims of the catastrophic ...

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Cambridge, MA. I recently was asked to offer a closing prayer at a parish event where the speaker was Professor Paul F. Knitter, a distinguished Catholic theologian and the Tillich Professor of ...

A low, grounded Buddhist chant to unleash compassion and a long, melodious reading of verses from the Koran were very unlikely to have been heard at Trinity Episcopal Church on the Green when that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Each scroll was tightly wrapped around 50 times. Much to conservationists’ dismay, the shrine is no longer arranged as it was when ...