HOUSTON (CN) - A Texas death-row inmate who believes chanting prayers with his Buddhist priest as he is executed will help him be reborn in the “Pure Land” has asked the Fifth Circuit for a stay ...

NAGANO, Japan (AP) — When he's not chanting and living the austere life of a Buddhist priest, Kazuki Yazawa contemplates Olympic gold. The 27-year-old Yazawa will represent Japan in canoe slalom at ...

As if a Mediterranean breeze wafted through Wallace Pack Unit's steel-reinforced walls and columns, the aromas of hummus, falafel and fattoush permeated the prison's classroom. “I've forgotten food ...

The Rev. Cristina Moon bows before a ceramic lotus flower at the May We Gather event at the Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple in Los Angeles. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) One by one, the Buddhist ...

Amid the chanting of sutras, the sounding of gongs and the curling smoke of burning incense. Chief Abbot Oda Sesso was ordaining a head priest for the Zen Buddhist temple of Daitokuji Ryosen-An in ...

SHELBURNE — Tucked away down a rural Vermont road flanked by forest and farmland lies the two homes of Nōwa Randall: the Randolin Music Store and Vermont Zen Center. At Randolin, Randall makes, ...