As the monsoon rains begin to subside and the emerald green of the rice fields deepens, a profound spiritual energy, almost palpable, stirs across the regional provinces of Thailand. This is the time ...

At the first-ever traditional Buddhist merit-making ceremony to pray for the tens of thousands of elephants poached annually, revered Thai Buddhist leaders will call upon their congregations and other ...

Tokyo, March 3 (ENInews)--The Tokyo-based Niwano Peace Foundation has announced it will award its 2011 Peace Prize to Sulak Sivaraksa, a Thai Buddhist leader. The foundation said the presentation ...

The year has started on a historic note for Indo-Thai relations with India sending out four precious relics of Buddha from the National Museum, together with the relics of two of his chief disciples ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A new warrant has been issued for the arrest of an influential Thai Buddhist monk and Thailand's police chief said on Thursday they would do their best to bring him to justice ...

WEST FARGO — A business formerly located in Moorhead is getting ready for its West Fargo debut. Staff at Thai Orchid hosted family and friends Wednesday, Sept. 13, to show off the new space located in ...

NAKHON PATHOM, Thailand — Think Buddhist monk, and bodyguards and bomb threats probably don't spring to mind. But that's exactly what Phra Buddha Issara is dealing with as he mounts a campaign to ...

Smai Harnsontthi, abbot of the Thai Buddhist temple in Auburn and overseer of 43 temples in the United States, is dead at 66. Harnsontthi collapsed after complaining of chest pains during the monks’ ...

The giant Buddha statue of Wat Paknam Phasi Charoen temple is seen at the end of an avenue in Bangkok, Thailand, June 9, 2021. Reuters BANGKOK, June 21 – A Thai temple building a 230-foot Buddha ...