Many monasteries lost their properties during the 1950s, while several temples suffered damage in the 1960s and 1970s.

China has launched a crackdown on powerful Buddhist monks suspected of misusing temple funds for personal wealth.

Much of the global population suffers from chronic pain. Here’s what we can learn from Buddhism about how to manage it.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Hundreds of Buddhist monks in Cambodia on Friday held a religious ...

MEIKHTILA, Myanmar (AP) – A Myanmar court sentenced seven Muslims to prison Tuesday _ one of them to a life term _ in the killing of a Buddhist monk amid deadly sectarian violence that was ...

Buddhist monks defended themselves with a coat hanger – and their own “stay calm” philosophy – when armed goons stormed their Brooklyn temple in a pathetic heist that netted them a measly few hundred ...

NAKHON PATHOM, Thailand (Reuters) - Phra Buddha Issara is a monk with a mission. From his Buddhist temple near Bangkok he is calling for a radical overhaul of Thai Buddhism, fearing millions of ...

Police in Thailand have arrested a Buddhist monk in connection with alleged misuse of donations to a HIV/AIDS hospice he set ...

It’s a bad abbot. Four Buddhist monks in Thailand have been shipped off to rehab after they all tested positive for meth. The holy men — including the temple’s abbot, or head monk — failed the drug ...

While Trump did receive a Cambodian nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize, the nomination came from the country's prime minister, Hun Manet. Yon Seng Yeath, a leading figure among Cambodian buddhist ...

A Buddhist monk who set up a hospice in Thailand for people with HIV/Aids has been arrested for alleged embezzlement of donations to the care home. Luang Phor Alongkot, 65, was arrested Tuesday at his ...

A monk in Bang Lamung was arrested after officers found meth hidden in alms bowls and other items during a raid prompted by a public tip-off.