Monks at a Chinese temple reportedly called the cops on a man who got trapped inside their temple’s wishing pool while trying to take coins donated by visitors. The incident occurred at the Phoenix ...

A Chinese monk widely praised for helping hundreds of unwed pregnant women and abandoned children is now under criminal investigation for fraud, raising public concerns over transparency and oversight ...

(Updates with raid details in paragraphs 2-3) BEIJING, April 17 (Reuters) - Armed police raided a monastery in northwest China and detained dozens of Tibetan Buddhist monks on Thursday, following anti ...

Venerable Huayan, a senior monk at Mingjiao Temple in Hefei, has drawn attention for his passion for Counter-Strike, which he links to spiritual discipline. He argues gaming and Buddhism both require ...

DHARAMSHALA, India—For Jamyang Monlam, a 24-year-old Buddhist monk in Tibet, time was running out. He longed to meet the Dalai Lama, the 89-year-old religious leader revered by Tibetans but viewed by ...

Hundreds of Tibetan monks have taken to the streets of Lhasa in the biggest protest against communist rule in almost two decades, it emerged on Tuesday. The show of defiance — which took place on the ...