BANGKOK – Misbehaving monks face censure after Thai religious authorities said they had launched a 24-hour hotline for the public to report unruly acts by...
CHIANG RAI – Ani Konchog Lhamo, a Buddhist nun in the Tibetan tradition, taught a practice on tonglen (giving/receiving) to eight attendees at the meeting...
PATTANI – Four people, including a Buddhist monk and a young boy, were killed and six others were injured in an attack in Thailand’s violence-plagued...
CHIANG RAI – Eight persons attended the first meeting of the Chiang Rai Buddhist group in Klang Wian temple on Sunday, March 26 from 12 pm...
RAKHINE – A Buddhist mob rampaged through a town in an isolated corner of Myanmar, hacking Muslim women and children with knives, a villager and...
CHIANG RAI – A group of English-speaking Buddhists and those interested in Buddhism will meet Sunday, January 26, at Klang Wian Temple. One of the organizers,...
CHIANG RAI – Ani Konchog Lhamo, a Buddhist nun in the Tibetan tradition, gave a practice on lovingkindness to 14 attendees at the meeting for...
BANGKOK – Supreme Patriarch Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara died on Thursday due to a blood infection following recent surgery for an intestinal infection, according to...
CHIANG RAI – Thai and Myanmar Buddhists in this northern province this morning participated in the Tak Bat Devo Festival commemorating the end of Buddhist...
Tony MacGregor – Describes his historic pilgrimage across Korean Peninsula to honor Buddhist Saint Wonhyo CHIANG RAI – On Saturday November 2 Chiang Rai resident...
CHIANG RAI – Thai Buddhists nationwide are making merit and performing other religious practices on Asalha Puja Day, which falls on today, the full moon...
BANGKOK – Saffron-robed Buddhist monks’ involvement in sex, drugs, murder and corruption is being increasingly exposed in Thailand, thanks to YouTube, resulting in shock, dismay,...
BANGKOK – About a week after a video of Buddhist monks riding a private jet went viral on YouTube, pictures of monks checking out iPhones...
YANGON – Myanmar’s President Thein Sein has lashed out against Time magazine’s cover story on “Buddhist terror” for undermining Government efforts to ease sectarian tensions in...
LASHIO, Myanmar – When a huge mob of Buddhist thugs crawled on the roof of Ma Sandar Soe’s shop, doused it with gasoline and set...
MYANMAR – In the Western stereotype, Buddhists are meditating pacifists who strive to keep their distance from worldly passions. But last month, more than 40...
YANGON – Buddhist monks armed with swords and machetes stalked the streets of a city in central Myanmar on Friday where sectarian violence has left...
Chiangrai Times– Wat Phra Dhammakaya in Pathum Thani province on Monday stirred an internet controversy when it released an article on its website referring to...
Chiangrai Times – Each year as monsoon rains sweep their way over Thailand, tens of thousands of teenage boys shave their heads and are ordained...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Buddhist vigilantes in Western Myanmar have attacked a bus and killed nine Muslims in of the deadliest communal violence in the country....