Wei Ming-jen adjusts a flagpole during a ceremony at a former Buddhist temple that he turned into a communist shrine, in Ershui, Taiwan on April 27, 2018. After taking over the temple and evicting ...

PHOTOS: A Taiwan-based Buddhist charity attempts to take the founding nun's message of compassion global They ran relief operations after Sept. 11, 2001, and during Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy.

A major Taiwanese Buddhist group said on Wednesday it had signed a deal to buy 5 million doses of BioNTech SE's COVID-19 vaccine via the German firm's Chinese sales agent, bumping the island's ...

HUALIEN, Taiwan — The Buddhist teacher who founded what is now a global charity and religion with a $283 million operating budget grew up at a time when women could not be ordained as Buddhist nuns.

ERSHUI, Taiwan — It was bad enough, villagers thought, when the kindly Buddhist nuns were forced out of their historic temple and longtime home. But what began as a bitter property dispute took ...

Tzu Chi volunteers say goodbye to a Buddhist master before setting out on a volunteer mission at the Jing Si Abode in Hualien, Taiwan, Thursday, July 6, 2023. Credit: AP/Chiang Ying-ying ...

ERSHUI, Taiwan — It was bad enough, villagers thought, when the kindly Buddhist nuns were forced out of their historic temple and longtime home. But what began as a bitter property dispute took ...

HUALIEN, Taiwan (AP) — When a 7.4-magnitude earthquake ripped through Taiwan in April, it took about 30 minutes for the region’s most ubiquitous charity to set up an emergency response center.