A woman named Wilawan Emsawat, also known as Ms Golf, has been arrested. She is accused of having sexual relationships with many monks and then using private videos and photos to blackmail them for ...

The devotional art of Jainism, Buddhism and Hinduism share many similarities, even some gods. To understand why, you need to examine the ancient Indian origins of these religions and their ...

Monks from the Namgyal Monastery in Dharamshala built a sand mandala and carried out a dissolution ceremony in Laguna Beach.

The key to loosening envy and grudges isn’t willpower. It’s awareness. In Buddhist practice, you’re taught not to fight the ...

Until the end of June, the continuation of reincarnation, and therefore the future of Tibetan Buddhism, was in question.

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.

The Skokie Village Board rejected two of three elements to a plan for a Buddhist center near downtown after neighbors ...

Police in Thailand have arrested a woman who allegedly enticed a string of Buddhist monks into sexual relationships and then ...

China's insistence that it will identify the next Dalai Lama foreshadows the chance that followers will have to decide who ...

It is this tension between maintaining the unum amid our multiplying pluribus that is reflected in the religious skirmishes ...

But Mahayana Buddhism has become more popular by developing a social orientation. Adherents should strive to have the ...

San Jose’s colorful annual Obon Festival drew hundreds of people to Japantown this weekend. The festival is the largest of ...