A U.S.-born Buddhist lama, who grew up a typical American teen in a Minneapolis suburb, celebrated his 18th birthday and ...

A lesson from Buddhism seems particularly apt in this moment of enemyship: Treat the people you disagree with as mistaken rather than evil. There is a profound optimism at the heart of most Buddhist ...

Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl witnessed centuries-old Bhutanese traditions, including a Cham dance ceremony and ...

“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...

Representatives from Buddhist communities, experts, scholars, and guests from over 70 countries are attending the October 15-17 Sixth World Buddhist Forum in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, eastern China.

CNN's 'Artisans' meets the dedicatedcraftspeople who hope to preserve the traditional art of woodworking, where Japanese heritage and innovation coexist in harmony, for generations to come. Osaka's ...

The need for stronger international action against the country’s military junta has never been greater.

More than 150 researchers and scholars from countries including Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Myanmar, the ...

The claim by a Hindu leader that churches are involved in drug trade in India’s northeast region has sparked widespread anger ...

The U.N. Development Programs is warning that Myanmar’s Rakhine state, home to the Rohingya minority and engulfed in conflict ...

Sculptor Aung Naing Lin has spent decades carving Buddha statues to help guide Myanmar's faithful -- but getting the marble ...

In my last column, I wrote about the Rohingya, an ethnic group in Myanmar who have undergone intense persecution from both the military and local Buddhist nationalist groups, concluding my article ...