In a monastery in central Myanmar, a Buddhist monk, Wathawa, rallies his militia with a cry: “What’s our spirit like?” “The spirit of iron!” shout a group of rifle-bearing men ...

But fortunately the Burma Archaeological Department is ... such as the Paharpur, a tenth-century Buddhist shrine and monastery. But no mere architectural description can do justice to the artistic ...

Monks have been seeking spiritual enlightenment at these sites on steep cliffs, inside caves and atop an extinct volcano for ...

When the great King Anawrahta of Pagan united the whole of Burma into a ... and placed in a Vishnu temple, which was renamed "The Prison of the Gods." All the pre-Buddhist cults were suppressed.

Kuthodaw Pagoda is a Buddhist stupa in Myanmar. It houses over 700 slabs ... It opened in 1976 and was the first Thai Buddhist Temple to be built in the UK. It is home to both monks and nuns.

Odisha has a rich Buddhist heritage. Ratnagiri, part of the ‘Diamond Triangle’ of Ratnagiri, Udaygiri, and Lalitgiri, had a ...