Many Japanese people are checking their incense stocks to make sure they are prepared for Obon. A Japanese Buddhist custom, 盆 Bon (or お盆 Obon) takes place for three days in the middle of August, at ...

A Buddhist statue inside Famen Temple gets a cleaning. Photo: Reuters Researchers also found two other incenses, agarwood and a mixture of agarwood and frankincense.

A fellow Buddhist inmate gave Robert Shreeve, who has to serve a minimum 20 years before being considered for parole, a gift of a bamboo incense holder.

Now the incense specialists are back again, this time with a new scent that promises to be even more popular than any of their past releases, as this one comes with the aroma of Japanese sake. And ...

A life prisoner who turned to Buddhism won a High Court battle quashing a decision he was guilty of a disciplinary offence by having a "sharpened" incense holder. A fellow Buddhist inmate gave ...

Archaeologists say they have unearthed the remains of a so-called incense pot at the Ness of Brodgar in Orkney. It is only the fifth one of its type discovered in the British Isles. Other examples ...

A self-styled Buddhist layman in Hong Kong, Rebecca Wong Howe shows how to develop a daily practice of incense seal making, a meditative, mindful practice that is a dying art.

Incense burned in Thai temples poses cancer risk Incense burned in Thai Buddhist temples can cause cancer, publish health officials have warned. By Ian MacKinnon in Bangkok 11 March 2011 • 4:02pm ...