Buddhists in Southeast Asia are marking one of the holiest days in their calendar; the day on which the Lord Buddha was born. It is also the day he gained enlightenment and died. In Myanmar ...

Buddhist clergy are extremely influential in Myanmar, an overwhelmingly Buddhist nation in which the religion is deeply entwined with tradition and culture. The killing of Bhaddanta ...

These Christian ethnic minorities live in a unique context: In Myanmar, Buddhism is the state religion, and Buddhists make up 90 percent of the population. Most of the country’s elite ...

Myanmar – Scattered across the lush, rolling hills of southern Myanmar’s Tanintharyi region, rebel fighters stationed at checkpoints inspect cars and trucks traveling towards a nearby town ...

CURRENT GOVERNMENT FAILING TO UPHOLD BUDDHISM'S CONSTITUTIONAL VALUE - VEN. KOTAPITIYE RAHULA THERA. Most visited website in ...

A day after Buddhists marked Vesak Poya, a fundraiser was held in Colombo, attended by 80 Myanmar monks . Muslims, Hindus, ...

So far the Religious Affairs Ministry has permitted only one of nearly 140 mosques wrecked by the earthquake in Mandalay, ...