Buddhist monks offered prayers as more bodies were found at the earthquake-struck building in Bangkok. Video shows the robed ...

LHASA -- Thirteen monks were on Tuesday awarded the prestigious Tibetan Buddhist academic degree Geshe Lharampa, equivalent ...

For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start their day with prayer at ...

An AP photographer captured a visual story about Father Spyridon, the monk depicted in the image, using the clouds to give ...

The people of Myanmar have often turned to the clergy for aid during natural disasters. But last month’s earthquake was also ...

A heart-racing hike in Nepal weaves its way through rivers, valleys and timeless Sherpa villages, and offers the ultimate ...

Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a seaside cliff that's little changed since its founding more than a millennium ago.

Those robes are only meant when within the monastery studying or out traveling to keep distance from lay folk. Though many might find it appalling to see little children working a construction site, ...

Three days after a Bangkok skyscraper collapsed in the wake of a devastating earthquake in neighbouring Myanmar, Naruemol Thonglek is still praying that her boyfriend will emerge from the immense ...

RICHMOND — The Gyuto Foundation, a Tibetan Buddhist monastery located in East Richmond ... Lama at the culmination of the three-day Monlam Prayer Festivals for world peace, an annual celebration ...

A group of monks who fled outside after the first tremor watched on as a tower block in Mandalay came down. Appeals court rules Trump can fire board members of independent labor agencies India ...

Here temple lions with the eyes of God guard the monastery entrance. A golden spire juts from a bedazzling white stupa. Dozens of prayer flags flutter in the breeze. Inside the lamasery, saffron-robed ...