The holy relics of the Buddha are considered sacred and serve as tangible connections to his inheritance. When these relics are taken abroad from India to a Buddhist country, it is indeed a ...

The Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh, dir- of the School of Social Studies at the Buddhist University of Saigon, will speak at Dunster House at 7:45 p.m. today on Determination in Vietnam." Nhat Hanh is ...

Journal of Vietnamese Studies, Vol. 13, No. 3, Buddhist Literacy in Early Modern Vietnamese Print Culture (SUMMER 2018), pp. 51-87 (37 pages) This essay is a study of the woodblock print culture at ...

Ho Chi Minh City [Vietnam], May 6 (ANI): At the inauguration ceremony of the United Nations' Vesak Day celebrations in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnamese spiritual practitioner and artist Vu Khac Diep, ...

Ho Chi Minh City [Vietnam], May 8 (ANI): The International Buddhist Confederation (IBC) and the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to deepen their ...

Images of veneration such as representations of Shakyamuni Buddha, bodhisattvas, and Sambhogakaya forms in the polytheistic Buddhist world are among the key highlights of the Vietnam - India Buddhist ...

Thich Quang Do, a Buddhist monk who became the public face of religious dissent in Vietnam while the Communist government kept him in prison or under house arrest for more than 20 years, died at age ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Thich Quang Do, a ...

Prominent Buddhist monk, writer and Vietnamese peace activist Thích Nhất Hạnh passed away at the age of ninety-five. Plum Village, the first monastic community Hạnh founded, announced the peaceful ...

TOKYO, March 29 (Reuters) - Rows of wooden mortuary tablets inscribed with names line an altar at a Buddhist temple in Tokyo, silent testimony to Vietnamese people who died after coming to Japan to ...