MANDALAY: Sculptor Aung Naing Lin has spent decades carving Buddha statues to help guide Myanmar's faithful -- but getting the marble he needs from rebel-held quarries in the midst of civil war is ...

To the best of his power, a Burmese seeks to model his life on that of the Buddha, in deed and aspiration. The very form of the pagoda helps him to keep ever in mind the ideals he desires to ...

As Burmese astrology had its origins in Hindu ... youth by saying that they wanted to live until the coming of the next Buddha so that they could listen to his preaching. The followers of the ...

high fetches between 100,000 – 200,000 Myanmar kyat ($50-$100 at the official exchange rate), he said. Outside one of the workshops on the busy street, workers packed a sitting Buddha statue ...

The fact that private galleries and institutions such as the Goethe-Institut offer space for artists such as Htein Lin or Tschum Mu Kai is one of the few good tidings from Myanmar: Buddha’s “right ...