Time was when we had to observe the five precepts chanting in front of the omnipresent Buddha statue in every Buddhist ...

For weeks, Tashi, a Tibetan Buddhist monk and self-taught conservation biologist, has scoured these mountains in China’s Qinghai province for nests of the Tibetan bunting. Now that he’s found ...

50 years after fall of Cambodia’s capital to the Khmer Rouge and the ensuing annihilation of Buddhism, Monks are working in ...

Buddhist monks from the Sanghapadipa Buddhist Temple in Swansea have blessed the 44-seat 'Nok Nok' restaurant ahead of its formal launch on Easter weekend. Nok Nok, owned and managed by Nok Ryland and ...

Members of the hit drama The White Lotus turned to a Hindu priest for help at their incredible filming location on an island ...

The Buddhist celebration is unique to the Shan people of northeastern Myanmar, hundreds of thousands of whom have moved to ...

From prehistoric paths dating back to the Neolithic period to walking routes used by Buddhist monks and tea merchants, these ...

Buddhist monks chanted verses, praying for the deceased, who had been one of them. One monk, Ashin Javanar Linkhara, then held his late colleague’s robe to his forehead and whispered the phrase ...

Annabel Venning’s family lived in Myanmar for many years before it was ruled by a repressive military regime. Denied democracy and devastated by natural disaster, its suffering people are in their gre ...

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