The Great Ashoka changed the model for future monarchs. The righteous King's reign would show how power should be wielded to ...

The Great Ashoka changed the model for future monarchs. The righteous King's reign would show how power should be wielded to create a Buddhist society and future kings would even invite monks to ...

His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn Phra Vajiraklaochaoyuhua replaces the winter attire of the Emerald Buddha with summer robes at Wat Phra Si Rattana Satsadaram, commonly known as the Temple of ...

While cutting down a 10m-tall mango tree, whose trunk measured 80cm in diameter, the tree cutter stumbled upon a small emerald Buddha statue within the tree’s trunk.

BANGKOK: The King on Monday (March 25) performed an elaborate annual ritual to change the outfit of the Emerald Buddha in Wat Phra Kaew to the summer outfit.

The Emerald Buddha presides over the Wat Phra Kaew Temple in Bangkok - the most sacred Buddhist site in Thailand. Legend has it that the small (26-inch) jade statue was made in India in 43 BC ...

King Maha Vajiralongkorn is to pay his respects on Friday to one of Thai Buddhism's most sacred relics, the Emerald Buddha, and later light an auspicious candle as he conducts the final rituals ...

A Buddha statue was unexpectedly found inside a mango tree when it was being cut down during landscaping works at a temple in Thailand’s eastern Chonburi province.

Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn will visit the Temple of the Emerald Buddha to pay respects to the Buddha image on May 3, 2019, before moving to the Grand Palace. PHOTO: AFP Updated May 03 ...