After more than three years of searching, a group of Theravada Buddhists on the Suncoast has found a new home. The Sarasota County Commission gave its unanimous approval to allow a special exception ...

The Abbot of Sunnataram Forest Monastery, Phra Mana, 56, looks at the ruins of a burnt female dormitory in Bundanoon, Australia BUNDANOON, Australia (Reuters) - Buddhist monk Phra Mana helped build ...

GFP graduate student Greg Harris of Cambridge, Massachusetts, was recently published in the Earth Island Journal. In his article, "The Forest Monks," he reflects on his summer Earth Expeditions to ...

"The monks don't live to make caskets, they make caskets to pursue their vocation," explains Mulgrew, who describes their operations as a true cottage industry. As such, the monks are involvedin all ...

Back in the late 1960s, when Thanissaro Bhikkhu was a college student at Oberlin and was still called Geoffrey DeGraff, he signed up for an inter-term practicum taught by two visiting Buddhist ...

Benedictine monks in a central Vietnam province have criticized authorities for ignoring forest fires that they claim were started deliberately. Brother Stanislas Tran Minh Vong said two fires were ...

Cambodian monks have been mobilizing in the streets since July 2015 to demand stronger government action against the rapid deforestation of Prey Lang, the largest lowland dry evergreen forest in ...

At first it was kind of funny. Then it went strange. Now it’s downright bizarre. The offscreen misadventures of Siamese martial arts wunderkind Tony Jaa grew to new levels of nuttiness last week. Jaa, ...

BUNDANOON, Australia (Reuters) - Buddhist monk Phra Mana helped build his bush monastery with his bare hands three decades ago, but when Australia's worst wildfires in generations threatened to ...