The main organization coordinating resistance to Myanmar's military government says its forces have arrested 10 members of a local resistance group suspected in the killing of a Catholic village ...

The Tibetan Book of the Dead, or the Bardo Thodol, is arguably the most popular Buddhist text in Europe and the United States. Carl Jung loved it. So did John Lennon. But why? What is this text all ...

When I heard that recently Thailand captivated the world in Lonely Planet’s 2025 Best In Travel, naming Chiang Mai A Top Global City, I made up my mind. It was time for a visit. This travel guide book ...

Buddhism, founded by Gautama Buddha in the 6th century BCE, is one of the major world religions that focuses on the path to ...

The White Lotus' Season 3 features a (mostly) new batch of vacationers in Thailand. Meet all of the characters, including ...

Colonel Henry Steel Olcott was famously denounced as an “unmitigated rascal” by the New York Times in 1871. In Sri Lanka, however, he is still remembered as the revered legend of Buddhist revival—and, ...

Nanda Pethiyagoda Ven Vajiraramaye Nanasiha Thera moves on from being an octogenarian to nonagenarian on February 18. His family, his Sangha kalyana mithra, and those who know him rejoice in the fact ...

Dr Upul Wijayawardhana How would the Buddha have looked like in real life?” This question was posed by Prof. Asanga Thilakaratna, the Chief Editor of the Encyclopaedia of Buddhism, during one of the ...

Fire broke out inside the building on Anthony Avenue in the Tremont section just after 6 a.m. Wednesday. From my seat at ...