China has launched a stringent crackdown on influential Buddhist monks accused of misappropriating temple funds to amass personal wealth. This move forms part of broader efforts to regulate religious ...

(Adds Sarkozy, invitation to U.S. diplomat, background) By John Ruwitch BEIJING, March 27 (Reuters) - Tibetan monks stormed a news briefing at a temple in Lhasa on Thursday, accusing officials of ...

One of the most famous Buddhist monks in the world has been stripped of his clerical license and removed from leadership at his historic temple over alleged abuse of power. The Buddhist Association of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The abbot of Shaolin Temple, Shi Yongxin, speaks at the famous Buddhist monastery in central China's Henan province on November 8, ...

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 ...

Thousands of mourners, many in tears, gathered in Kathmandu to pay tribute to a senior Tibetan Buddhist monk whose cremation was initially blocked by Nepal, sparking claims it had caved to pressure ...

Qiu Feng, dubbed as China's "most handsome Shaolin monk," died at the age of 21 on Aug. 8. Qiu was en route to a charity performance in Zhejiang province when his private hire car collided with a ...

Thubten Wangchen, the Tibetan monk who caused friction between China and Spain by pushing a human rights complaint through Spanish courts, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Madrid February 11 ...

Police in the Chinese capital Beijing arrested a Buddhist monk a day after he briefly commemorated the anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre in Beijing on June 4, says a report. The monk known as Shi ...

Tibetans have accused the pro-Beijing authorities in the region of housing hundreds of young Tibetan Buddhist monks in prison-like conditions at government-run boarding schools, says a report. The ...