Opinion: The West is mesmerized by the idea that Buddhism equals non-violence, and it blinds us to the atrocities unfolding in Myanmar Pakistani activists held banners and posters against the ...

Buddhism is concerned with finding the right way of living, with the goal of eventual complete enlightenment (known as nirvana). Buddhists do not believe in, nor do they worship, any god. Report ...

Myanmar's Buddhist clergy previously sought to topple successive military dictatorships that kept citizens impoverished and isolated. Monks were part of the 1988 uprising that brought Nobel laureate ...

I have never heard of a Buddhist crusade, fatwa, inquisition, holy war or holocaust. The non-violent behaviour of the monks in Myanmar is not a product of revealed religion.

A Myanmar junta air strike on a rebel-occupied ruby mining hub killed 13 people on Saturday, according to a resident and a ...

A figurehead leader, he had little real power but did endorse measures that allowed the country’s generals to extend their ...

Insulting Buddhism is a punishable offense in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, where religious nationalism has surged in recent years. About 90% of Myanmar people are Buddhist.

BANGKOK (AP) — The military-controlled government of strife-torn Myanmar on Friday showed off a new giant statue of a sitting Buddha that is scheduled to be consecrated on Aug. 1, a powerful ...

BANGKOK (AP) — A Swiss citizen was arrested in military-ruled Myanmar for creating a film that allegedly insulted Buddhism, state media reported Saturday. Didier Nusbaumer, 52, was arrested on ...