TACOMA -- It would have taken a forklift to move the 3,000-pound copper bell stolen recently from a Vietnamese Buddhist temple here. But the bell and its hand-carved wooden frame disappeared ...

Unprecedented wildfires ripping through South Korea’s southern regions have destroyed large parts of an ancient Buddhist temple complex that had been designated national treasures.

It all started with one kind act after a Japanese Buddhist temple bell found its way to Duluth in the wake of World War II. Duluth Mayor George Johnson decided in the 1950s that the bell, which ...

Temple visitors take photos around the temple gardens during the grand opening of Tam Tu Metta Buddhist Temple in Morgan Hill, Calif., on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024.