As the story goes, in the seventh month of the Chinese lunar calendar, the gates of hell burst open. Voracious and sometimes vengeful ghosts cross over the threshold from the world of the dead and ...

From the Hungry Ghosts Scroll at the Kyoto National Museum. The scroll depicts the realm of the hungry ghosts, with this section showing Ananda, nephew and disciple of Shakyamuni Buddha, as a ...

This year, the free Festival is a raucous invitation to resist and combat the demons of our times. On the fifteenth night of the seventh lunar month, the gates of hell are thought to open and the most ...

Every year, the seventh lunar month casts a different mood over Chinese communities in mainland China and the diaspora across Malaysia, Singapore, all of Southeast Asia, and beyond. Streets fill with ...

In this 2017 photo, Jonathan Stevens, owner of Hungry Ghost Bread, loads uncooked loaves into an oven at the bakery's State Street location. After 22 years, Stevens and his wife and co-owner, Cheryl ...