One by one, 13 Buddhist monks wearing brightly colored silk costumes and wide-brimmed black hats, stepped onto the ...

BANGKOK: In recent years, Thailand has witnessed a growing crisis of faith in the Buddhist monkhood. Once seen as moral ...

Namdol Phuntshok remembers carrying around rose beads and wearing only “red or yellow” so that her parents would understand her “calling” to become a nun. The y ...

The range of Sam Dalrymple’s book Shattered Lands is expansive. An ambitious debut, it talks about the five partitions of the ...

Incantations, music, and chanting have been used in rites and rituals since the beginning of time, with roots in ancient ...

China has also sought to elevate other spiritual figures, particularly Tibetan Buddhism’s No. 2 figure, the Panchen Lama. A boy recognized by the Dalai Lama as the new Panchen disappeared soon after, ...

Emperor Naruhito also visited Gandantegchinlen Monastery, a key temple in Mongolia that has been influenced by Tibetan ...

The National Office of Buddhism (NOB) is considering criminal complaints against former senior monks embroiled in a major sex scandal if an investigation finds they embezzled money from temples.The ...

The former abbot of Wat Phra Phutthachai in Saraburi has admitted to a years-long romantic relationship with a woman known as "Sika Golf", saying he had even planned to leave the monkhood to marry her ...

Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Nimal Senadheera, met with Commonwealth Secretary-General, Shirley ...