The drumbeats filled the Linh Son Temple in northwest Houston. A Vietnamese Buddhist monk blessed the paper-mâché lion and watched it rise and shake and twist across the rugged grounds.

With the surrounding portrayals of gods, Bodhisattvas and disciples, all realistically and delicately sculpted in high and low relief, it is considered a masterpiece of Buddhist art in the Far East.

Formal review of an application by Dro Gah Sang Foundation Corp., to construct a Buddhist Temple on a 4-acre parcel ...

Japan’s annual ritual of “mame-maki,” or bean-throwing, at Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines and homes sees people marking “setsubun,” the last day of the winter in the Japanese lunar calendar. Like ...