Monks from the Namgyal Monastery in Dharamshala built a sand mandala and carried out a dissolution ceremony in Laguna Beach.

Buddhist monk accused of ‘worshipping money’ after throwing bag of rice out of temple hall, telling pair not to return for ...

At dusk on July 10, monks at Wat Pasukato temple in northeastern Thailand gathered for a quiet procession to mark Asalha ...

The sun rises over tall mountains in Ladakh as old temple bells ring through valleys that have heard prayers for hundreds of years. All across India, Buddhist temples stand like peaceful islands in ...

San Jose's Obon Festival is the largest of its kind in the U.S. The festival's big attraction is the traditional Bon Odori, in which hundreds of people perform a community dance.

Police in Thailand have arrested a woman who allegedly enticed a string of Buddhist monks into sexual relationships and then ...

A planned Buddhist temple headed for construction on a wooded lot in Roanoke County will offer services, meditation and an outdoor plaza for a few minutes of peaceful repose, according to the monk ...

Kyrgyzstan, nestled in the heart of Central Asia, boasts a rich Buddhist legacy. The city of Osh, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is home to Sulaiman-Too Mountain, where Buddhist monks once meditated.

In the study of Buddhism it is commonly accepted that a monk or nun who commits a pārājika offence is permanently and irrevocably expelled from the Buddhist monastic order. This view is based ...

Alternative scholarly works of the life of Jesus Christ open up several possibilities and interpretations absent in the four gospels writes PRANAV KHULLARThe missing years between the ages of 13 and 3 ...