Brightly dressed boys and girls mounted on horses and carts, accompanied by their guardians, make their way to a Buddhist ...

As Burmese astrology had its origins in Hindu ... youth by saying that they wanted to live until the coming of the next Buddha so that they could listen to his preaching. The followers of the ...

In a sense, they were. A carefully orchestrated farewell ceremony at the Bagan Museum in central Myanmar was held just before an 11th century stone seated Buddha was packed in a large, meticulously ...

Hundreds of people in a village in Hlegu township of Yangon region, Myanmar, on Saturday took part in a grand procession to celebrate Shinbyu, a revered Theravada Buddhist tradition.

A local resistance group fighting against the military government in Myanmar has acknowledged responsibility for the killing last week of a Buddhist monk and his disciple in the country’s eastern ...

Everything is strangely silent. No one is around; to the Burmese people, the Golden Island is an unspeakably holy place on the Irrawaddy, where the Buddha himself is said to have pointed ...

Big Buddha is a giant statue of Buddha encased in Burmese alabaster that towers over Phuket from the peak of Mount Nagakerd. Construction on Big Buddha began in 2007, and Phuketians are proud of ...

NAY PYI TAW (Xinhua): After more than three years of construction, Myanmar is preparing to unveil a giant sitting marble statue of Lord Buddha in its capital Nay Pyi Taw on Aug. 1, the Information ...