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 ...

The life and adventures of a Chinese monk who made a 17-year journey to bring Buddhist teachings from India to China. Xuanzang subsequently became a main character in the great Chinese epic Journey to ...

BANGKOK--Seven Buddhist monks are among nine suspects who are being held in pretrial detention after being arrested for allegedly embezzling assets worth about 300 million baht ($8.9 million ...

Two Buddhist monks have been fatally shot and two others wounded inside a temple in southern Thailand. Witnesses described seeing gunmen dressed in black arrive on motorbikes before storming the ...

A team of divers rescued the monk after four days inside Thai rescue workers have freed a Buddhist monk from a flooded cave, four days after he went inside to meditate. The monk, who was on a ...

Buddhist monk Bhante Uttama spoke to the Yale community in William Harkness Hall on Sunday about his journey from founder and CEO of a successful telecommunications business to Buddhism. The talk ...