Head of Buddhist sect's relief group Ven. Doryun, chief of the Korean Buddhist Foundation for Social Welfare at the Jogye ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Buddhist monks stand in front of Thai policemen outside Wat Dhammakaya temple in Pathum Thani province, Thailand, Thursday, Feb.

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BANGKOK, Thailand — Among all the angry protesters trying to oust him from office -- the students, the workers, the farmers and the artists -- it is an army of 10,000 celibate vegetarian Buddhists ...

Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) -- one of the first Buddhists ever elected to Congress -- seems to have slipped in through a side door while all eyes were focused on the first Muslim ever elected. Johnson, ...

Thich Huyen Quang, the patriarch of an outlawed Buddhist church in Vietnam who spent more than two decades in and out of house arrest, died Saturday after months of failing health. He was 87. The ...

KYOTO >> Two young monks from different Buddhist sects have united to form a break-dancing duo, Kaiten Bozu (spinning monks). The men believe their unique fusion of Buddhism and dance is sure to ...

BANGKOK – State prosecutors in Thailand say they intend to indict the head of a powerful Buddhist sect on charges of money laundering and related crimes. The Office of the Attorney-General announced ...

PATHUM THANI, Thailand (AP) — Thai police raided the head temple of a controversial Buddhist sect but failed to find and arrest the abbot, who faces criminal charges over accepting $40 million in ...

BANGKOK (AP) — The head of a powerful Buddhist sect in Thailand will be indicted next week on charges of money laundering and related crimes involving millions of embezzled funds that allegedly ...