The executions underscore the severe toll Myanmar’s conscription is having on civilians, with many forced to fight at the ...

A preliminary count from Myanmar’s military government said that ... women wailed as the spire atop a century-old golden dome called a stupa toppled over, one of several that were damaged ...

Around the stupa, the remains of golden spires and red bricks littered ... It was not just pagodas and other Buddhist sites that suffered heavy damage. Photos shared by the Burma Human Rights Network ...

Peter Popham speaks to a monk about the devastation the 7.7 magnitude tremor has wrought on the town of Mingun – a few miles from the epicentre. And how it has only added to the woes of a region caugh ...

The only organised rescue work has been undertaken by fighters of the People’s Defence Force (PDF), one of the many militias that have sprung up since ... an 18th century stupa (domed edifice ...

Elsewhere in Myanmar the heavy-duty machines of international ... “unfinished pagoda”, the huge stump of an 18th century stupa (domed edifice) intended to be the biggest in the world.

In Myanmar, as bleeding victims were rushed to ... women wailed as the spire atop a century-old golden dome called a stupa toppled over, one of several that were damaged there.

Sanghamitra established an order of nuns in Sri Lanka and her name remains synonymous with the female Buddhist monastic order of Theravada Buddhism, not only in Sri Lanka but also in Burma ...

Ambedkar, the chief architect of the Constitution and social reformer, embraced Buddhism at Deekshabhoomi in 1956, making it ...

Myanmar seeks Unesco designation for the site ... a complex of square-based temples and a giant stupa in a clearing just below us, scatterings of tin-roofed wooden houses interspersed among ...

The Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar is thought to contain between ... with many visitors walking clockwise around the stupa as part of religious practice. The main structure sits on a brick ...