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 Thai Cabinet has approved a proposal to nominate Wat Phra Mahathat Woramahawihan, a historic Buddhist temple in Nakhon Si ...

The temples began to rise beside the Irrawaddy ... Htin Aung’s discussion of “Folk-Elements in Burmese Buddhism”), the old nature deities of the animistic cults for whom Anawrahta provided ...

There is a small population of Hindus living in Rakhine as also in other parts of Myanmar. Their temples in many places often resemble Buddhist temples, though in places like Yangon some temples ...

Kuthodaw Pagoda is a Buddhist stupa in Myanmar. It houses over 700 slabs ... It opened in 1976 and was the first Thai Buddhist Temple to be built in the UK. It is home to both monks and nuns.

A group of 49 Rohingya migrants travelling by boat from Bangladesh to Malaysia was found on Tuesday near a beach on ...

Police in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state have opened fire on Buddhist protesters, killing at least seven. The violence occurred after more than 4,000 ethnic Rakhine Buddhists gathered in Mrauk U ...