The life and adventures of a Chinese monk who made a 17-year journey to bring Buddhist teachings from India to China. Xuanzang subsequently became a main character in the great Chinese epic Journey to ...

Drepung Monastery, located at the foot of Mount Gephel, is the largest Tibetan monastery, once home to over 7,000 monks. Situated 5 kilometers west of Lhasa, it was a major center of Buddhist ...

Neuroscientists found that the Tibetan Buddhist monk and best-selling author has ... Is it simply becoming the richest, most powerful, most famous, most beautiful, most everything?

BANGKOK--Seven Buddhist monks are among nine suspects ... when police took into custody the temple abbot and a famous monk, Kom Kongkaew, who were accused of stealing over 180 million baht ...

She's running the very first Thai Buddhist Temple for female monks, promotes equality between men and women, and believes ...

After he became a monk, Nishimura told him Buddhism teaches that being LGBTQ+ is not an issue and that it is all right to be true to oneself and be happy with the loved one.

A Vietnamese monk who became an internet hit last year is going international. Thich Minh Tue, 44, is on a 1,650-mile barefoot pilgrimage across Thailand and Myanmar to Buddhist sites in India—if ...

A hardline Sri Lankan monk who is a close ally of ousted former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has been sentenced to nine months in prison for insulting Islam and inciting religious hatred.