Given the national consensus that top-down control is the primary cause of injustice and disparity, one would expect the closed Buddhist autocracy to consider opening up to keep up with change.

It’s not that uncommon to see someone behind the wheel of a car dressed in the traditional robes of Buddhist clergy. Which is why one monk’s refusal to pay a traffic ticket may have set off a ...

Earlier this week, a Buddhist monk in Fukui, Japan, received a traffic ticket for driving in his monastic robe. Though he told the Yomiuri Shimbun he’d been driving that way for 20 years without ...

The Buddhist monks have no substitute colour and yellow colour signified high position. Furthermore, yellow became the colour of renunciation. When the Franciscans visited Kandy during the days of ...

Wat Chak Daeng temple has recycled 40 tonnes of plastic into at least 800 sets of robes Thomson Reuters · Posted: Feb 06, 2020 11:24 AM PST | Last Updated: February 6, 2020 ...

Buddhist monks whose robes are made from plastic bottles Some 30 plastic PET litre-and-a-half bottles are needed to make each set of robes Last updated: July 05, 2019 | 19:27 IANS 2 MIN READ ...

They rely on donations of plastic, which can then be recycled into new robes. So far the monks have crushed 88,185 pounds of plastic in two years aiming to curb the litter in the surrounding Chao ...

The Dalai Lama turned 90 on Sunday surrounded by thousands of followers, who thronged the Himalayan town of Dharamshala, where the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism has ...

HUNDREDS of people gathered at the Buddhist temple in Knaphill on Sunday for a special ceremony that takes place only once a year. The ceremony of Kathina Robes at the temple had 300 people ...

A Buddhist temple has come up with an unorthodox, and very cute, way of attracting new believers - a miniature robot monk. Named Xian'er, it resembles a cartoon monk in yellow robes with a shaven ...