Some items were buried underground. The first arrests in the case occurred last Friday, when police took into custody the temple abbot and a famous monk, Kom Kongkaew, who were accused of stealing ...

“Star Monk” also came out at the same time. Venerable Beomjeong is popular among the MZ generation as “Kkot seunim (flower monk)”. In September last year, a temple night tour program the ...

KYOTO--Monks at Chion-in temple in Higashiyama Ward here did a test run of its famed hanging bell on Dec. 27 to prepare for the traditional bell-ringing ceremony on New Year’s Eve. In the test ...

Monks have been seeking spiritual enlightenment at these sites on steep cliffs, inside caves and atop an extinct volcano for ...

As the famous setting of countless Kung Fu movies, the original Shaolin Temple of China was brought back from ...

A Buddhist monk in Nonthaburi province, Thailand, had died after being attacked by a one-year-old pit bull at a temple. Forensic examiners believe he had been ...

Best known for kung fu, the monks are the custodians of Zen Buddhism in China. The meeting with the pontiff comes a few days ...

According to the villagers, the chief monk instructed the bereaved family to pay Rs. 35,000 to the temple’s Dayaka Sabha and provide a receipt before he could officiate at the traditional “Panshukula” ...

In a scandal that’s rattled the pious halls of a renowned Thai temple, a disgraced monk shakes foundations of Buddhist faith of Thailand.

A female temple member has been fined for stalking and threatening a head monk after he ended their romantic relationship.