Buddhists across the country have joined protests after monks at the Mahabodhi Temple were forcibly removed by police.

Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt ...

Myanmar’s military junta is continuing to bomb resistance strongholds amid a desperate rescue effort and massive humanitarian ...

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan -- For centuries they have gazed benevolently ... Frescoes on the walls surrounding the statues, as well as grottoes dug in the fifth and sixth centuries by Buddhist monks, have ...

Around the world, an estimated 300 million people will wish one another a happy new year—Norouz mobarak in Persian—not just in Iran but also in Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, and among Kurdish ...

NOBEOKA, Miyazaki -- One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi temple in this southwestern Japan city was purified ...

A scholar of Buddhism explains authentic ways to engage deeply with the tradition, ranging from short meditation retreats to full ordination as a monastic.

UNPO strongly condemns the recent arbitrary arrests of Khmer-Krom Buddhist monk Venerable Kim Som Rinh and human rights ...

Emergency rescue teams on Sunday began trickling into the area of Myanmar hardest hit by a massive earthquake that killed more than 1,600 people.

A Buddhist monk was found dead inside a temple that had been gutted by fast-moving wildfires in Yeongyang, North Gyeongsang Province, local reports said Thursday. The deceased, Ven. Seonjeong ...