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 ...

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 ...

SUKHOTHAI — The abbot of a monastery was arrested and expelled from the monkhood on Thursday for encroaching on 50 rai of national forest reserve in Thung Saliam district of Sukhothai province. A ...

What do an Ethiopian stewardess from California, a Monument mom of three teens, a Colorado Springs aerospace engineer, a Catholic from England, and a local Baptist minister have in common? Each has ...

MAE HONG SON -- A forest monastery in Muang district was found to have encroached on a forest reserve and a national park, destroying forest which is the source of streams and cutting down ...

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 ...