The temples began to rise beside the Irrawaddy ... the Nats (see Dr. Htin Aung’s discussion of “Folk-Elements in Burmese Buddhism”), the old nature deities of the animistic cults for ...

In a monastery in central Myanmar, a Buddhist monk, Wathawa, rallies his militia with a cry: “What’s our spirit like?” “The spirit of iron!” shout a group of rifle-bearing men ...

The result is that many Buddhist temples in Myanmar now have their own nat-sin, spirit house, attached to the main pagoda. Though people still worship spirits outside the official pantheon ...

But in Mrauk U just a handful of foreigners have dozens of Buddhist temples to themselves. The site lies in Rakhine state, an isolated region at the western corner of Myanmar, with poor ...

A small Buddhist temple in Thailand has been left without ... The drugs flood into the country from Myanmar - the world's biggest producer of methamphetamine - via Laos. The pills are then sold ...

The Senso-ji Temple is dedicated to Asakusa Kannon, the Buddhist god of mercy and happiness. According to legend, two fishermen struck gold and found a statue of the god while fishing on the ...