Roaring flames spread from trees and utility lines to a patio area of a Buddhist temple in City Heights early Wednesday, causing an estimated $50,000 in damage. Investigators have not determined the ...

The Bodhgaya Temple Management Committee, the body responsible for management and maintenance of the shrine where the Buddha is believed to have attained enlightenment about 2,500 years back, is in a ...

A Buddhist monk from north-east Thailand is so worried about the environment that he has been ordaining trees for 25 years. Since 1990 Phrakru Pitak Nanthakthun has been leading ceremonies to dress ...

Beneath a temple thought to mark the location of the Buddha’s birth, archaeologists may have discovered the literal roots of the religion: an ancient tree shrine that predates all known Buddhist ...

A branch of the holy "Bodhi tree" was cut off by some unknown people at the world famous Mahabodhi temple in Bihar's Bodh Gaya town - where the Buddha attained enlightenment 2,550 years ago. Hundreds ...

What would the world look like if people believed nature to be as sacred as a spiritual leader? Phrakru Pitak Nanthakthun, a Buddhist monk in north-east Thailand, has an answer to that question. For ...

There are some unique works of art on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Take, for instance, theSaddanta-jataka(of the elephant ‘Six Tusks’) drum panel, dating back to the 1st century ...

Soto Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki marched toward Northampton City Hall, propped up in her palms were papers wrapped in a purple linen cloth. Behind her, New England Peace Pagoda Venerable Brothers ...

Concerns are mounting in India for the well-being of a sacred tree under which Lord Buddha first attained enlightenment more than 2,500 years ago. A Buddhist monk walks beneath the sacred Bodhi tree ...

Beneath a temple thought to mark the location of the Buddha’s birth, archaeologists may have discovered the literal roots of the religion: an ancient tree shrine that predates all known Buddhist ...