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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On Sunday afternoon, Santa Maria was host to the Guadalupe Buddhist Church's annual Obon Festival. The festival is a widely-celebrated tradition honoring Japanese culture and heritage. Locals visited ...

Members of the community gathered, Sunday on the grounds of the Marjorie McNeely Conservatory in St. Paul, lighting lanterns, eating food and partaking in Japanese customs in celebration of Obon, a ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Centuries of culture and tradition were on display Saturday at San Jose's Obon Festival. Obon is a Japanese Buddhist tradition, dedicated to remembering and honoring the dead ...

Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia is hosting two lantern floating ceremonies in celebration of Obon. (Courtesy of Millie Chen) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — The Spokane Buddhist Temple is hosting an Obon Japanese Buddhist Festival on Sunday, August 18 from 2 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Grant Park. The festival is meant to honor the spirits of a ...

While college is a chance for students to fulfill their study abroad dreams, many may find a semester out of the country impractical for various financial or personal reasons. Luckily, the ...

Erina Romanowich can remember dancing at Obon in Japan when she was a little girl. Living in Chico now, she read about Marysville's annual festival to honor ancestors and wanted desperately to come ...

Centuries past came right up to the present Saturday night in the San Fernando Valley, where the area’s largest Obon festival cascaded with smiles, colors, tradition, drumming, dancing…. We could go ...

The heat could not stop this year’s Obon Festival at the Seabrook Buddhist Temple in Upper Deerfield Township Saturday evening. With temperatures in the high 90s, and the heat index over 100 degrees, ...