TOKUSHIMA—David Moreton has for years served as a messenger of the cultural appeal of a Buddhist ... a white robe worn by Alfred Bohner (1894-1958), one of the first non-Japanese who embarked ...

Credit: Zde/ Wikimedia commonsCC BY-SA 4.0 The greatest Buddhist king of India, Ashoka, chose a Greek monk, also known as Dhammarakita ... It had “shone with yellow robes,” it was said. Merlin Peris ...

Ordination ceremony for 500 novice monks, also known as Shramneras, is underway in the Maya Devi Temple complex of Lumbini, ...

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 ...

Sri Lanka's gross official foreign reserves recovered by 30 million dollars to 6,095 million dollars after a three month fall ...

A medical officer in Eastern Sri Lanka who has come to the notice of authorities over alleged links to an 'extremist' Islamic ...

Thousands of monks will gather at the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa to worship Sakyamuni, perform religious rituals, chant prayers, and debate Buddhist scriptures. The Tibetan word Monlam literally ...