Last Saturday at Battery Park, a group of Burlington’s Nepali residents celebrated Sansari Puja, or Mother Nature worship. The annual event organized by the Kirat Rai and Limbu communities is intended ...

This is part of a regular series featuring religious and other holidays celebrated by various faiths in our community. Over the year, we'll take a look at various faith-based holidays and explain who, ...

(Agenzia Fides) The Buddhist monks of a temple in Colombo spontaneously gathered for a special “Puja” ritual to pray for the health of Pope Francis and his speedy recovery. During the Puja ritual, the ...

Kolkata: Bengal govt employees will enjoy a few more holidays in 2026 than this year. While 2025 has 49 holidays, next year's ...

Medicine Buddha is the healing Buddha. It is said that just to see an image of him or to hear his name can bring about unimaginable benefits. Viewing illness as a result of the three poisons — ...

The Indiana Forest Alliance is offering a free two-day total solar eclipse experience at Yellowwood State Forest. The IFA and Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center in Bloomington have paired up ...

Buddhists observed Probarona Purnima at monasteries across the country, including the Chittagong Hill Tracts and coastal region, yesterday with due religious fervour. As part of the rituals, devotees ...

It is said that human sacrifice was replaced by animal, which too gave way to sacrifice of a human effigy made of rice grains The Goddess at Moth Bari Patuli practically has two hands as the rest ...

Considering the Buddha’s advice that we should endeavour to see things as they really are, one may argue that rituals should have no place, at all, in Buddhism. Afterall, rituals are dependent on ...