Ven. Jinwoo, chief of the Jogye Order, South Korea's largest Buddhist sect, puts his hands together ahead of a New Year's ...

Perhaps the sect best known to people in this country is Zen, a form known earlier in China as Chan, featuring instant illumination (satori) through meditation and an exquisitely refined concept of ...

TOKYO - One of Japan's biggest Buddhist sects said it has launched a probe after a nun accused a monk of sexually assaulting her for 14 years and an eminent priest of turning a blind eye.

In the late Ming dynasty, Tibetan Buddhism proliferated into a number of sects, among which Sagya, Gagya and Gadang were most popular. However, many monks failed to follow Buddhist tenets ...

The notion of rebirth, therefore, doesn’t attract me. Buddhism has many sects and each of these emphasis different aspects. In like manner, my emphasis is on the pragmatism of Buddhism I find the ...

A ceremony to mark the 94 th birthday of the Hoa Hao Buddhist sect’sfounder, prophet Huynh Phu So, was held in the sect’s holy land in PhuMy town, Phu Tan district, the southern An Giang ...