Buddhist anarchists believe that complying with the unjust rules of society makes it almost impossible to follow the Buddha’s Dhamma. Just to survive in this world we have to exploit, to cheat, to ...

Myanmar’s military regime unveiled a large Maravijaya Buddha statue in a massive religious ceremony, which critics describe as an attempt to distract from the junta’s brutal leadership. The military ...

A Buddhist monk sits in front of a classroom of children in a small town in rural Myanmar. He chants lines which the students dutifully repeat, as they do every week at these Buddhist ‘Sunday school’ ...

Ma Ba Tha was established on 27 June 2013 and has spent the past four years promoting its version of Buddhist nationalism. It successfully lobbied for four race and religion restrictions which became ...

Buddhist nuns, photographed here in Mandalay, Myanmar, wear a pink robe, instead of the red or orange ones worn by the monks. (Credit: CC BY-SA 4.0 via Courthouse News) Buddhist nuns, photographed ...

The military’s seizure of power in Myanmar and the detention of head of government Aung San Suu Kyi is far from the first time generals in the country have interfered in national politics. Myanmar’s ...

BANGKOK — A local resistance group fighting against Myanmar’s military government has acknowledged responsibility for the killing last week of a Buddhist monk and his disciple in the country’s eastern ...