The temple was originally built to house two jade statues brought in from Burma. But over time ... the temple is one of Shanghai's few active Buddhist monasteries, so many monks call this place ...

A deadly earthquake on March 28 collapsed buildings in central Myanmar but rumours that the country's most sacred Buddhist site has crumbled are inaccurate. An AFP reporter confirmed the Shwedagon ...

chief archaeologist of Pagan’s breathtaking 1,000-year-old Buddhist temples, points out an enormous pentagonal pyramid sparkling in the morning sunlight, dominating this arid central Burma plain ...

Myanmar's religious temples stood as symbols of faith and history. After the recent 7.7 magnitude earthquake, many are ...

The death toll from Friday’s magnitude 7.7 earthquake is more than 2,000 in Myanmar and Thailand. Myo Kyaw Soe/Xinhua via AP Share A west suburban Buddhist temple is leading a fundraising effort ...

the largest concentration of Buddhist monuments in the world. Bagan’s millennium-old brick structures are Burma’s equivalent of Angkor Wat, the famous ancient stone temple of Cambodia.

On the banks of the Irrawaddy River, more than 3,000 temples stretch across a 30-square-mile plain in Bagan, Myanmar (formerly Burma). Most were constructed between 1057 and 1287 during a building ...