BANGKOK, Thailand — Among all the angry protesters trying to oust him from office -- the students, the workers, the farmers and the artists -- it is an army of 10,000 celibate vegetarian ...

Tranquility and tolerance are professed practices that attract people to Buddhism. Another is the self-effacing pacifism of Buddhist leaders, even under modern political pressures. All those virtue… ...

In this Feb. 22, 2016 photo, Thai Buddhist monks pray and gather at Wat Dhammakaya temple to participate in Makha Bucha Day ceremonies in Pathum Thani, Thailand, The Office of the Attorney-General ...

All-night chant held in Kyoto to honor founder of Buddhist sect By KENJI SHIMIZU/ Staff Writer April 19, 2025 at 17:31 JST ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — The government's governing body for Buddhist monks is hosting its first conference in 19 years, bringing together the religion's nine main local sects at a time when there ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s state-sponsored governing body for Buddhist monks hosted its first conference in 19 years on Monday, bringing together the religion’s nine main lo… ...

The Buddhist sect was effectively banned in 1981 when it refused to merge with the state-sponsored Buddhist Church of Vietnam. Quang became supreme patriarch of the outlawed church a year later.

The Cheontae Order, Korea's second-largest Buddhist sect, has come under fire for sexual discrimination. It bans women from entering its temples on two days of the year. The Buddhist sect's ...

The Rev. Chikai Yosemori, the 14th bishop of the Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii, who was instrumental in founding the first Buddhist high school in the U.S., died April 13. He was 84.

Though all Buddhist sects praise meditation, the intuitive Zen sects alone make it the sole way to salvation through enlightenment. Simple living and strict self-discipline are prerequisites for ...