Armed police secure the compound of Ekayana Buddhist Centre in Jakarta in the early morning of Aug. 5, 2013, hours after a bombing attack hit the temple in the evening of Aug. 4ROMEO GACAD / AFP / ...

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YANGON, July 6 (Reuters) - UNESCO inscribed Myanmar’s ancient capital of Bagan as a World Heritage Site on Saturday, nearly a quarter of a century after the complex of Buddhist temples was first ...

Behind the temple ruins of this ancient Myanmar city, lie tales of drama and inspiration Over 2,200 Buddhist ruins vie for attention in the fields of Myanmar’s ancient city of Bagan. Each seems to ...

MANDALAY, Myanmar As the sun began to set behind the hills on the far side of Mandalay, the valley below turned a dusty red. The small trash fires burning constantly along the roadsides contributed to ...

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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police have pledged to bar Islamist groups from staging a rally on Friday at the Borobudur Buddhist temple in central Java to protest against the persecution of ...

YANGON (Reuters) - Around 100 Buddhist monks and nationalists in Myanmar staged a protest against Thailand on Friday, denouncing the government of the neighboring country for its actions against a ...

INSIDE a Buddhist monastery in Mandalay five teenagers are looking at a poster, bemused. A graphic collage of photos depicts children’s corpses, monks covered in blood and enraged jihadists ...

The 78-year-old monk Bhaddanta Munindarbhivamsa was shot dead by soldiers this month. The military initially tried to pin it on anti-regime forces. Hundreds of people attended the funeral on Thursday ...