Buddhist monks have been staging peaceful protests near Domuhan, a government-owned land just outside the main temple zone, for over two months. Their main demands include repealing the Bodh Gaya ...

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In a monastery in central Myanmar, a Buddhist monk, Wathawa, rallies his militia with a cry: “What’s our spirit like?” “The spirit of iron!” shout a group of rifle-bearing men ...

Bare-handed monks slowly pick away the rubble that was once the wall of a historic Buddhist monastery in Mandalay, its exposed side a searing reminder of the deadly earthquake that rocked the city ...

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

The Greek Buddhist monk Nyanadassana has been a senior monk of the ancient Buddhist Theravada tradition for 37 years in Sri Lanka. Nanyadasana was born in 1959 as Ioannis Tselios in Serres, northern ...

Members of the community are invited to an afternoon of sound healing and meditation with renowned Buddhist monk Bhante Rahula at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Geneva. The program will be ...

Nearly 100 Buddhist monks have been protesting at Bodh Gaya’s Mahabodhi Temple since February, demanding the repeal of Bodh Gaya Temple Act (BTA), 1949 and that the management rights of the site, with ...

The protests stem from the yearslong demand by Buddhist monks for the sole control of the Bodh Gaya’s Mahabodhi Temple or Mahavihara, one of the most sacred shrines of Buddhism. Buddha is believed to ...