The three monks of the Jogye order — South Korea's largest Buddhist sect, with around 12 million followers — looked on with placid smiles. So began the third edition of “Naneun Jeollo ...

SEOUL--A South Korean deejay dressed as a Buddhist monk bounced up and down on stage while playing electronic music and shouting: “This too shall pass!” The performance brought cheers from a ...

[PARK SANG-MOON] Yangyang, GANGWON — Monks have become matchmakers and a Buddhist temple has turned into a religiously blessed date place in Korea. In the country with the world's lowest ...

The decline is part of a broader trend of secularization in South Korea. A Gallup Korea survey shows that the proportion of ...

The Korean Cultural Center in Thailand provided Korean temple food cooking by Jeongkwan to 111 Thai monks at Wat Arun, most famous temple in Thailand on 3rd October at 10 AM. Jung Kwan, a Korean ...

A Buddhist monk has been mauled to death by his own pet pit bull, which launched a brutal attack on the man's face. Phra Bandit Bootsen was feeding the one-year-old pup named Jord, when it latched ...

Japanese temple to retake 14th century relic in May after prolonged legal fight A 14th-century Buddhist statue that Korea’s ...

SWAT: Junsei Terasawa, a prominent Buddhist monk from Japan ... said that Buddhism reached Japan in the 6th century CE via Korea and China, carrying with it the artistic and spiritual traditions ...

Buddhist monks belonging to Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Nepal, South Korea and Sri Lanka, who are in Islamabad to participate in the International Gandhara Symposium visited Taxila Museum and ...