As the monsoon rains begin to subside and the emerald green of the rice fields deepens, a profound spiritual energy, almost palpable, stirs across the regional provinces of Thailand. This is the time ...

Tokyo, March 3 (ENInews)--The Tokyo-based Niwano Peace Foundation has announced it will award its 2011 Peace Prize to Sulak Sivaraksa, a Thai Buddhist leader. The foundation said the presentation ...

The offering of food and material goods to monks is an essential part of the daily practice of Buddhism in Thailand. The belief is that through the act of giving, lay Buddhists – followers of the ...

BANGKOKBANGKOK — Thailand’s Supreme Patriarch, who headed the country’s order of Buddhist monks for more than two decades, died Thursday. He was 100. Doctors said that Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A new warrant has been issued for the arrest of an influential Thai Buddhist monk and Thailand's police chief said on Thursday they would do their best to bring him to justice ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) Political divisions and allegations of corruption are fueling an unholy battle for the leadership of Thai Buddhism. Religion is becoming a proxy war for the color-coded politics that ...

BANGKOK — Two Buddhist monks in Thailand have become social media stars with Facebook livestreams that combine traditional teachings with non-traditional jokes and giggles. Some of the country’s ...

PATHUM THANI, Thailand (Reuters) - A clothing and cosmetics model and a former monk are campaigning together for Thailand's election at a market outside Bangkok. The message: Buddhism is under threat.

Reporting from Mae Sai, Thailand — Sitting cross-legged on a table outside a labyrinthine cave, a monk meditated in the glow of a burning lamp and silently called on spirits to stop the rainfall. A ...