This spring marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon—an event many refugees call “the day we lost the country.” A turbulent ...

The French president, currently on a week-long diplomatic tour of Southeast Asia, arrived in Indonesia with First Lady ...

The Vatican began its eighth Buddhist-Christian Colloquium on Tuesday in Cambodia, bringing together representatives of both ...

I immediately ordered twenty monks and nuns ... He was a Vietnamese Buddhist who, faced with the threat to his faith and a nation in turmoil, made a profoundly sorrowful yet heroic decision: to ...

We respectfully ask for the understanding of monks, nuns, and the public regarding this matter,” the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha ... witnessed by thousands of citizens and Buddhist followers, was a ...

Exiled Tibetans, mostly from Tibetan Youth Congress, joined the protest rally in front of the Chinese ... who stated on April 3 that the monk had died in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City due to poor health.

So, in February, when several Buddhist monks began an indefinite hunger strike ... from Dalit Buddhist communities, have also held protests. Similar rallies are being organised across Rajasthan ...

when South Vietnamese soldiers fired on a group of Buddhists flying a Buddhist flag in Hue. Nine people were killed. Protests culminated with the ritual suicide a month later of the Buddhist monk ...

In June 1963, Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc shocked the world by setting himself on fire in protest against the Catholic South Vietnamese government. Show more In June 1963, a ...

On the day of a Monk protest, around 400 Buddhist monks and nuns marched to ... Sources: Buddhism & Zen in Vietnam: In Relation to the Development of Buddhism in Asia By Thich Thien-an The Making ...