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’ ...

Myanmar's hard-line Buddhist group Ma Ba Tha has rebranded itself after the country's top body, banned it for fueling anti-Muslim violence. Known for its anti-Islamic rhetoric, the nationalist monk ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

YANGON, June 17 (Reuters) - Myanmar's most prominent group of nationalist Buddhist monks on Monday condemned sedition charges against one of its leading members, Wirathu, ahead of a hearing in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The two-day conference brings together Buddhist leaders, policymakers, and scholars under the theme, ‘Collective Wisdom, ...

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's most prominent group of nationalist Buddhist monks on Monday condemned sedition charges against one of its leading members, Wirathu, ahead of a hearing in the fugitive ...