My quest had begun a few weeks earlier over goat hot pot in Vietnam. I was on vacation, eating dinner with my parents, their Vietnamese tutor, Mai Lan, and her husband of a few months.

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.

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 ...

The top two floors were apartments. Fire officials said the fire was caused by burning incense, which lit combustible material in the temple. The damage was estimated at $400,000.

“I think anybody who’s over the age of 18,” he added, “should be able to make their own decisions with the incense they purchase.” The Associated Press contributed to this report.

SEATTLE (AP) -- Investigators determined that a three-alarm fire early Thursday at a Buddhist temple in Seattle was started accidentally by burning incense.