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Thousands of religious buildings were destroyed in the severe earthquake that struck Buddhist-majority Myanmar on Friday. More than 2,000 monasteries and pagodas in the Sagaing region alone are said ...

MEIKHTILA, Myanmar (AP) – A Myanmar court sentenced seven Muslims to prison Tuesday _ one of them to a life term _ in the killing of a Buddhist monk amid deadly sectarian violence that was ...

BANGKOK (AP) — An airstrike on a Buddhist monastery in Myanmar 's central Sagaing region killed at least 23 people who were taking shelter in the compound, separate sources said Friday. The overnight ...

INLE LAKE, Myanmar (AP) — Hundreds of waterborne spectators gathered Friday to watch boat races on Myanmar’s Inle Lake, the highlight of the annual Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda Festival. The festival, held on ...

An American Buddhist Anarchist wrote an article about how Buddhism can be appropriated by anarchist views. The tagline of the website "No Selves No Masters" says "If Buddhism is to possess social ...

In The Robe and the Sword, Sonia Faleiro shows how Buddhist revivalism and majoritarianism have been historically intertwined ...

Born of Buddhist parents and raised in a Buddhist environment, I grew up as a typical Myanmar Buddhist girl. Under the care of my grandmother, it was hammered into my brain that we should worship and ...

In the case of Myanmar, a Buddhist-majority country, the attacks are fueled by a radical form of Buddhist nationalism. While most of the world’s Buddhists would never condone such extremism, violence ...