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 ...

YANGON, Myanmar -- About 20,000 protesters led by Buddhist monks and nuns on Sunday mounted the largest anti-government protest in Myanmar since a failed 1988 democratic uprising, shouting support for ...

As a mother superior working in Myanmar's Kayin State, Sister Deborah Ann's daily routine involves managing a nursery school, looking after girls from a boarding school, helping to arrange meals, ...

When Aung San Suu Kyi won the elections in Myanmar in 2015 – the first openly contested vote in the country after decades of oppression – I was on the street outside her party’s headquarters. I’ve ...

For much of late September, the road to the eastern gateway of Rangoon’s revered Shwedagon pagoda was a sea of maroon and saffron robes, as hundreds of Buddhist monks gathered to march in protest ...

This series, Theravada, completed in 2016, reveals the transforming lives of the Burmese people as the heavy hand of government slowly eases. In Myanmar, the prominent religion is Theravada Buddhism, ...

The U.S. bishops' conference expressed solidarity with the people of Burma on Tuesday, one month after a military coup seized control of the country. "On behalf of the Committee on International ...

The monk sat cross-legged in the Manhattan hotel room in augbergine robes on an aubergine prayer mat, a thermos of tea, his reading glasses and a book, Mindfulness in the Marketplace, arranged neatly ...

(The Conversation) — In recent years, many Buddhist nuns have taken on leadership roles that require either ordination status or academic degrees, all of which was quite unheard of in Buddhist ...

Oklahoma will be the host of Western Theravadan Buddhist nuns Feb. 14-16. The Theravadan tradition of Buddhism was the tradition that traveled south and then east from India centuries ago, through ...