OSAKA--A Buddhist monk from Myanmar who was a leader of the Saffron Revolution urged the Japanese government to sever ties ...

BANGKOK (AP) — An airstrike on a Buddhist monastery in Myanmar 's central Sagaing region killed at least 23 people who were taking shelter in the compound, separate sources said Friday. The overnight ...

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INN DIN, Myanmar (Reuters) - Bound together, the 10 Rohingya captives watched their Buddhist neighbors dig a grave. Soon afterwards, on the morning of Sept. 2, all 10 lay dead. At least two were ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Brightly dressed boys and girls mounted on horses and carts, accompanied by their guardians, make their way to a Buddhist monastery in southern Myanmar, as they prepare to enter ...

Born of Buddhist parents and raised in a Buddhist environment, I grew up as a typical Myanmar Buddhist girl. Under the care of my grandmother, it was hammered into my brain that we should worship and ...

Amid the ongoing civil war and turmoil in Burma, also known as Myanmar, the military-controlled government proudly unveiled a new massive sitting Buddha statue on Friday. The statue, scheduled to be ...

An American Buddhist Anarchist wrote an article about how Buddhism can be appropriated by anarchist views. The tagline of the website "No Selves No Masters" says "If Buddhism is to possess social ...

In the case of Myanmar, a Buddhist-majority country, the attacks are fueled by a radical form of Buddhist nationalism. While most of the world’s Buddhists would never condone such extremism, violence ...

(Editor’s Note: There is no accepted uniform system of rendering the sounds of Burmese words phonetically in English. Therefore the preferences of individual writers have been followed in this ...