Recently, the chief prelate or custodian of eight sacred sites in Sri Lanka was arrested on charges of sexually assaulting and raping a child. He is out on bail. Sri Lankan President Anura Kumar ...

Buddhist monks, like the rest of us, have places to go and people to see. There are part-time jobs to get to and funerals to conduct. It’s not that uncommon to see someone behind the wheel of a car ...

Some 30 plastic PET litre-and-a-half bottles are needed to make each set of robes Some 30 plastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET) litre-and-a-half bottles are needed to make each set of robes, made ...

A group of Thai monks has caught international attention for their innovative approach to reducing plastic waste: turning used bottles and bags into brand-new monastic robes and masks. The Buddhist ...

BANGKOK - At a Buddhist temple south of Bangkok, a monk watches as a machine presses down on thousands of water bottles, before a giant bale of crushed plastic rolls out with a thud. The plastic is ...

Chemical and Process Engineering Department of the Moratuwa University; Project Director, Coordinating Secretariat for Science Technology and Innovation (COSTI); Science, Technology and Research ...

KOLKATA: Maa Durga will come down to earth this time - not just as a destroyer of evil, but as a messenger of peace, dressed in safforn coloured Tibetan clothes, determined not to spill blood. KOLKATA ...

A video showing young monks no more than 10 years of age pulling knuckle punches at each other is going abuzz on social media in Thailand. Older men can be heard urging them on as the ‘Fight ...