Authored by - Rajiv Bhatia, Distinguished Fellow, Gateway House, former ambassador to Myanmar and author, India-Myanmar ...

Armed police secure the compound of Ekayana Buddhist Centre in Jakarta in the early morning of Aug. 5, 2013, hours after a bombing attack hit the temple in the evening of Aug. 4ROMEO GACAD / AFP / ...

Buddhism is widely perceived as a fundamentally peaceful religion. Thus, it has been a shock for many to see Buddhist monks in Myanmar (also known as Burma) take a prominent role in violence against ...

A Swiss national and 13 Myanmar citizens were arrested by the military junta on August 8 for working on a film authorities say harms Buddhist culture and tradition, state-funded media has reported.

BANGKOK (AP) — An airstrike on a Buddhist monastery in Myanmar 's central Sagaing region killed at least 23 people who were taking shelter in the compound, separate sources said Friday. The overnight ...

MEIKHTILA, Myanmar (AP) – A Myanmar court sentenced seven Muslims to prison Tuesday _ one of them to a life term _ in the killing of a Buddhist monk amid deadly sectarian violence that was ...

Amid the ongoing civil war and turmoil in Burma, also known as Myanmar, the military-controlled government proudly unveiled a new massive sitting Buddha statue on Friday. The statue, scheduled to be ...

An American Buddhist Anarchist wrote an article about how Buddhism can be appropriated by anarchist views. The tagline of the website "No Selves No Masters" says "If Buddhism is to possess social ...

Taung Paw Camp in Rakhine State, in 2012. Credit: FCO/Flickr. (CC BY-ND 2.0). Some rights reserved. In the hastily-built displacement camps of Rakhine state, in the ...

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