Thai police arrested a woman accused of bedding at least 11 monks in violation of their vows of celibacy, before blackmailing them with secretly taken photos.

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Legal action against senior monks in Thailand raises questions about the future of Thai Buddhism, with calls for reform and ...

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The Young Buddhist Initiative describes itself as bringing Buddhist traditions into the modern world in a way that it hopes ...

The oldest Ramayana manuscripts do not mention China. But the oldest Mahabharata manuscripts do. China became familiar with ...

The case of Wirapol Sukphol, the infamous “jet-set monk” who was sentenced to over 100 years in prison for fraud, money ...

China's insistence that it will identify the next Dalai Lama foreshadows the chance that followers will have to decide who ...

Women should be prosecuted for having sex with monks, Thai politicians have proposed, amid a nationwide scandal over an ...