Dancers perform the Bon Odori no Uta dance during the 74th Annual Obon Festival at the Seabrook Buddhist Temple, Saturday, July 20, 2019.Get Photo Hoh Daiko group member Michael Orange drums for ...

Lahaina Jodo Mission will celebrate its first public Obon Festival since the pandemic on July 1. The Obon service will begin at 6:30 p.m., followed by a floating lanterns procession and ceremony ...

With outdoor gatherings limited to 100 people and social distancing rules still in place, Buddhist temples that hold the obon festivals — traditionally a time to remember ancestors who have ...

Obon is the Japanese Buddhist festival to honor the spirits of ancestors and is August 13-15, 2024. This three day celebration is a time for families to gather, eat, dance, and honor their relatives.

The Obon Festival will take place on Friday, August 16 at 6 p.m. People will be able to release lanterns to commemorate their ...

For more than 700 years, the residents of Nishimonai in Akita Prefecture have welcomed their ancestral spirits home for the annual Obon festival through a Bon Odori.These dances are held across ...

Obon is a summertime ritual when Japanese people welcome ancestors' spirits home from the Buddhist Pure Land. The people of Nagasaki have a distinctive way to commemorate this. They light ...