On Friday, October 18th, and Monday, October 21st, the Korean Cultural Center in Italy, in collaboration with the Committee for the Preservation of the Lotus Lantern Festival, held a workshop on the ...

the Lotus Lantern Festival is a contemporary interpretation of a Buddhist tradition rooted in the 918-1392 Goryeo Kingdom. The event, now organized by the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism ...

South Korean Buddhists dedicated this annual lotus lantern festival, the highlight of its celebrations for Buddha's birthday, to those killed in the accident and pray for the safe return of possible ...

Despite the rain, organizers expected a turnout of around 50,000 people for Saturday’s Yeon Deung Hoe, or Lotus Lantern Festival ... a national holiday in South Korea. On that day, many temples ...

The highlight of the celebration in South Korea is the lotus lantern festival called Yeondeunghoe, a parade of thousands of colorful, lighted paper lanterns often shaped like lotus flowers that ...