Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Nimal Senadheera, met with Commonwealth Secretary-General, Shirley ...

One by one, 13 Buddhist monks wearing brightly colored silk costumes and wide-brimmed black hats, stepped onto the ...

The National Office of Buddhism (NOB) is considering criminal complaints against former senior monks embroiled in a major sex scandal if an investigation finds they embezzled money from temples.The ...

The former abbot of Wat Phra Phutthachai in Saraburi has admitted to a years-long romantic relationship with a woman known as "Sika Golf", saying he had even planned to leave the monkhood to marry her ...

Scandals, lavish lifestyles, and lack of transparency are eroding public trust in Thailand’s monkhood. Reform and community ...

Namdol Phuntshok remembers carrying around rose beads and wearing only “red or yellow” so that her parents would understand her “calling” to become a nun. The y ...

China has also sought to elevate other spiritual figures, particularly Tibetan Buddhism’s No. 2 figure, the Panchen Lama. A boy recognized by the Dalai Lama as the new Panchen disappeared soon after, ...