The Buddhist Church of Sacramento is holding festivities Saturday and Sunday in celebration of Obon, a Japanese Buddhist holiday commemorating the dead and honoring ancestors. In Japan, Obon, an ...
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The Japanese Summer Obon Festivals are beginning to take place around the Bay Area. These events provide a cultural experience where family and friends come together to commemorate one’s ancestors ...
Japanese flags were given to soldiers during World War II. Those in Mount Pleasant’s Patriots Point Maritime Museum ...
A celebration that highlights Japanese food and culture is on Sunday at the Buddhist Temple of Salinas. The Obon Festival, from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. includes two stages of live entertainment featuring ...
In the summer festival of Obon—sometimes called simply Bon, but often used with the honorific prefix—Japanese people welcome their ancestors’ spirits to their homes and provide them with offerings.
The 28th annual Las Vegas Obon Festival and Bazaar Aug. 6 at Clark High School celebrated a new home, a record crowd and visions of a bigger event in the future. Hosted by Las Vegas Buddhist Sangha, ...
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 ...
As the story goes, a few thousand years ago a disciple, worried that his mother was suffering after passing away, asked Buddha what he might do to ease her pain. Not much, the faithful man was advised ...
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 ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Grand Rapids Public Museum (GRPM) and the OBON Society are poised to return a rare Japanese “good luck” flag to the family of a soldier it was originally gifted to. The ...