As world governments meet here to discuss global wildlife trade, revered Thai Buddhist leaders today held the first-ever Buddhist merit-making ceremony to pray for the tens of thousands of elephants ...

BANGKOK (RNS) — Street shrines are everywhere in Thailand’s capital, perched on pedestals outside homes, stores and even hotels, and they are more than decoration: Passersby frequently stop to light ...

Nestled in the woods near White Salmon is a small group of Theravada Buddhist monks following the Thai Forest tradition. The Pacific Hermitage has been in White Salmon for nearly a decade and depends ...

Back in the late 1960s, when Thanissaro Bhikkhu was a college student at Oberlin and was still called Geoffrey DeGraff, he signed up for an inter-term practicum taught by two visiting Buddhist ...

BANGKOK -- Thailand's Supreme Patriarch, who headed the country's order of Buddhist monks for more than two decades, died today. He was 100. Doctors said that Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara died at ...