The life and adventures of a Chinese monk who made a 17-year journey to bring Buddhist teachings from India to China. Xuanzang subsequently became a main character in the great Chinese epic Journey to ...

BANGKOK--Seven Buddhist monks are among nine suspects who are being held in pretrial detention after being arrested for allegedly embezzling assets worth about 300 million baht ($8.9 million ...

After 17 painstaking years, he identified Christopher Newman, an 89-year-old Buddhist monk currently being cared for in a retreat outside Bundaberg, as the man responsible. There are a number of ...

A team of divers rescued the monk after four days inside Thai rescue workers have freed a Buddhist monk from a flooded cave, four days after he went inside to meditate. The monk, who was on a ...

After he became a monk, Nishimura told him Buddhism teaches that being LGBTQ+ is not an issue and that it is all right to be true to oneself and be happy with the loved one.

I did not. That was all. That morning a Buddhist monk went out and sat down in a main intersection in downtown Saigon. Two of his fellow monks poured gasoline over him, and he set himself on fire ...

Wirapol Sukphol was seen flying in a private aircraft in a YouTube video released in 2013 It was a jarring image; a group of Buddhist monks, with shaven heads and orange robes, sitting back in the ...