More than 90 percent of Thailand's nearly 70 million people are practitioners of Theravada Buddhism ... Phra Maha Bancha, a 51-year-old monk who came to the temple more than three decades ...

Ven Ajahn Siripanyo—the only son of Malaysian billionaire Ananda Krishnan—is renowned for renouncing a life of luxury to ...

Ven Ajahn Siripanyo, the son of Malaysian billionaire Ananda Krishnan, chose a path of spiritual simplicity over his family’s ...

Ven Ajahn Siripanyo, the only son of Malaysian billionaire Ananda Krishnan, chose to forgo an inheritance from his father’s ...

Now the three resident Theravada Buddhist monks are urging people to visit the temple to see the transformation. Members of the Thai community that settled in Scotland first established The ...

Sikruadong Phra Phalek, a monk from Thailand ... Sikruadong returned to Thailand due to the COVID-19 pandemic and he later came back to Vietnam in 2022 for a master’s program in Vietnamese studies.

After a succession of scandals, people are openly talking about a crisis of Buddhism in Thailand. Numbers of ordained monks have been falling steeply in recent years, and many smaller village ...

BANGKOK--Seven Buddhist monks are among nine suspects who are ... from donations received by a temple in Thailand’s northeast, authorities said Thursday. The Criminal Court for Corruption ...

Thailand’s top Buddhist authority – who will become the next Supreme Patriarch, Thailand’s most senior monk? Meanwhile, allegations of ‘cheque-book Buddhism’, cronyism and corruption ...

One of the largest statues of the Buddha in the United States springs up unexpectedly in the middle of a backyard just off a ...

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 ...