Obon Odori festivals are happening all throughout the Bay Area. This community outdoor dance honors those who have passed, and return to earth once a year to enjoy the earthly pleasures. Traditionally ...

The traditional Obon Odori festival celebrates Japanese folk dance, held on the grounds of the Enmanji Buddhist Temple. Obon, the Japanese Buddhist summer festival honoring the ancestors, continues on ...

In an Aloha shirt and khakis, Ken Yamada doesn't exactly look like a Buddhist minister. But put the boyish 47-year-old reverend of Berkeley's Higashi Honganji in a roomful of folk-dancing parishioners ...

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Hundreds of community members participate in the traditional Odori dancing on the first day of the San Jose Buddhist Church Betsuin’s Obon festival in San Jose on Saturday. The Obon festival is an ...

If you're wandering through Sebastopol in the next few weeks and hear a whole lot of commotion at the Enmanji Buddhist Temple, count yourself lucky. It's summertime and this jewel of a temple, with ...

Memorial Folk Dance Festival on Saturday, July 14. Admission and parking at the temple, located on Northville Road off of Highway 77 in Seabrook, are free to all who wish to enjoy the program. Each ...

A new month means a new list of summer events happening in San Joaquin County. August kicks off with the AAA & CCC 15th Annual Soul Food Festival and the Stockton Buddhist Temple annual Obon Odori & ...

Obon service and odori celebration: is at 2 p.m. with guest speaker the Rev. Mark Unno at the Buddhist Temple of Marin, 390 Miller Ave., Mill Valley. Go to buddhisttempleofmarin.org. Shabbat services: ...

Obon — a Japanese Buddhist festival that honors the dead — is one of the city’s longest-running cultural events, dating back certainly to the post-World War II period and probably back to the 1930s.