Tag: Buddhism
Myanmar devotees climb ‘500 Duck Mountain’ for full-moon festival
The full-moon that marks the end of the rainy season is celebrated across Myanmar in explosions of color, with fireworks, and lanterns
Families ruptured by Myanmar’s junta observe Harvest Moon Festival with heavy...
The Thadingyut Festival is a time when people usually visit with parents and elderly relatives to pay their respects
Cambodia halts ‘Festival of the Dead’ after COVID outbreak
Cambodia largely avoided the spread of the pandemic last year but surging infections since have seen more than 105,000 cases
Laotians oppose plan to build Chinese-style Buddha statue in SEZ
A Chinese company plans to build the Buddha in the Special Economic Zone in Vientiane to attract domestic and foreign tourists
Watch: Bhutan — the happy kingdom
The small Buddhist country has one foot in the distant past and the other in the digital age
Cambodians consider life after death for comrade Duch
Notorious former director of Khmer Rouge prison converted to Christianity and sought forgiveness for his crimes against humanity
Cultural Revolution redux? Buddhist pagoda, temple destroyed in China’s north
Authorities claimed the structures had been 'built without approval'
Bottles for blessings: Thai Buddhist temple recycles plastics into robes
Temple tries to tackle country's massive plastic waste problem
US envoy attacks Chinese bid to choose new Dalai Lama
The role of picking a successor belongs to the Tibetan Buddhist system, the Dalai Lama, and other Tibetan leaders, Sam Brownback says
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