Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia — to reach the nation's capital. The trek has been far from easy. In recent weeks, the approximately two dozen traveling Buddhist monks have been confronted with brutal freezing temperatures.

Draped in burnt-orange robes, two dozen Buddhist monks arrived in Washington, D.C., on ⁠Tuesday ⁠on a 2,300-mile "Walk for Peace", a self-described spiritual journey across ⁠nine states that has been ...