A festival centered on filial piety and gratitude to all beings. Buddhist monks traditionally perform a ritual called “releasing the flaming mouth” to rescue ghosts, including ancestors, from their ...

Item 1 of 5 A medium man with his mouth pierced is portrayed while in trance during the Kathu Shrine procession amidst celebrations of the annual vegetarian festival, observed by Taoist devotees ...

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A world-renowned Taoist vegetarian festival in Thailand has seen devotees pierce their faces with skewers, knives and swords 'to rid them of bad seeds'.. The ceremony at the October 2-11 ...

Taoist devotees had body parts pierced with objects ranging from skewers and swords to a model ship as Thailand’s Vegetarian Festival returned from a two-year pandemic hiatus. The annual nine ...

This traditional nine-day Taoist festival worships the "nine emperors". Devotees offer their bodies to deities they believe will banish bad luck, while white-robed participants hope for blessings ...

Taiwan-based production banner D-Day Pictures and Singapore’s Mokster Films have teamed on “Phantom,” an Eastern Taoist-infused take on the “Invisible Man” concept, unveiled at this year ...

PHUKET, Thailand Oct 4 (Reuters) - Worshippers on Thailand's Phuket island have celebrated a nine-day Taoist festival, with many piercing their faces with metal spikes and walking on hot coals to ...