Traditional Buddhist prayer altars are a breathtaking sight. The shrines range in size and ornamentation, but some of the most elaborate ones are spectacles of gold, painted wood, and statuettes that ...

Salinas' Buddhist temple has renewed its altar as it looks back at its past, and towards the future. In Buddhist tradition, the temple sent its altar off to Japanese artisans to be restored for its ...

I make altars to connect the creative with the spiritual. I usually have at least three in my home and one at my office. Depending on the season, I arrange a revolving altar on the mantel in the ...

Members sold the building in 1942 as 1,017 Japanese Americans from the Yakima Valley were forced to leave that June for imprisonment at Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming. Only about 10 ...

Image of the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room at the Rubin Museum of Art (photo by David de Armas, courtesy the Rubin Museum of Art) One of the oldest Tibetan art collections in the United States arrived ...

In Japan, butsudan (仏壇) are small shrines found in Buddhist temples and homes. They certainly don’t usually look like the one above! Butsudan manufacturer Takumi Kougei, which is based in Hyogo ...