Jalue Dorje knew it would be the last big party before he joins a monastery in the Himalayan foothills — thousands of miles ...

It gets its name from the iron Buddha it once housed. Thanks to the game's popularity, the once-dilapidated temple was ...

Tragedy struck the family of 73-year-old Jeriline Brady-McGinnis after police say she was attacked and mauled by her own dog.

The public is being invited to view a sacred relic of the Buddha’s tooth from China, which will be enshrined in Bangkok from ...

The young Buddhist lama sat on a throne near an altar decorated with flowers, fruits and golden statues of the Buddha, watching the celebrations of his 18th birthday in silence, with a faint smile.

"She's very close to her animals, almost like children, I think. She took good care of them. She walked them every day," her ...

Last week, the government announced three new official holiday days for Thailand in an effort to boost tourism, including an ...

Sujata Senani was Lord Buddha’s first female lay disciple and the story goes that she used to go to a particular banyan tree to offer payasam (a rice milk sweet) to pray for a husband and son and her ...

In late October, two monks named Venerable Nyima Tsering and Venerable Tenzin Shakya began making a mandala at the Richard F.

Jeriline Brady McGinnis was mauled to death by her own pit bull in a tragic attack at her her home, with two police officers ...

Insights The world’s largest temples cover a variety of religions and beliefs.  Some of these temples have been around for ...

Life has a way of sending certain people to teach us lessons that we may not know that we need. They often arrive without ...