Thousands of religious buildings were destroyed in the severe earthquake that struck Buddhist-majority Myanmar on Friday. More than 2,000 monasteries and pagodas in the Sagaing region alone are said ...
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Brightly dressed boys and girls mounted on horses and carts, accompanied by their guardians, make their way to a Buddhist monastery in southern Myanmar, as they prepare to enter ...
“Do I look like a terrorist?” the orange-robed monk asked me, confident that I would see the question as absurd. The monk, Ashin Wirathu, had been portrayed on the cover of Time magazine’s ...
Testimony cited in The Hague shows how influential monks abandoned compassion to serve power and impunity, offering religious cover for the military’s violence.
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SIN THET MAW, Myanmar (AP) — Stranded beside their decrepit flotilla of wooden boats, on a muddy beach far from home, the Muslim refugees tell story after terrifying story of their exodus from a ...
BANGKOK — An airstrike on a Buddhist monastery in Myanmar 's central Sagaing region killed at least 23 people who were taking shelter in the compound, separate sources said Friday. The overnight ...
INLE LAKE, Myanmar (AP) — Hundreds of waterborne spectators gathered Friday to watch boat races on Myanmar’s Inle Lake, the highlight of the annual Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda Festival. The festival, held on ...
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Buddhist mobs on motorbikes drove through Myanmar’s historic city of Mandalay in a second night of attacks on minority Muslims that left two people dead, 14 injured and raised ...
Born of Buddhist parents and raised in a Buddhist environment, I grew up as a typical Myanmar Buddhist girl. Under the care of my grandmother, it was hammered into my brain that we should worship and ...
An American Buddhist Anarchist wrote an article about how Buddhism can be appropriated by anarchist views. The tagline of the website "No Selves No Masters" says "If Buddhism is to possess social ...
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