You plan a "relaxing holiday" only to end up stuck in a traffic jam behind seventeen other cars on a narrow hill road, surrounded by noise, selfie sticks, and overpriced Maggi. North India is vast, ...
The discourse on human rights in Buddhist-majority countries (such as Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Myanmar) often grapples with a distinct, foundational tension: the conflict between modern, ...
International aid is needed to help cyclone-ravaged Myanmar because the country is not equipped to handle the devastation, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told Myanmar's prime minister Thursday.
Smoke can be seen from brush fires on hills in Tachileik, Myanmar, as visitors walk on a skybridge at Wat Phra That Doi Wao ...
The ₹6,969 crore project is being seen as a strategic intervention to strengthen India’s Buddhist tourism circuit, enhance ...
The gaping holes torn in a road to Mandalay by last year’s devastating earthquake have been filled in, and the route in northern ...
By Luke Hunt Military airstrikes have killed at least 27 civilians in Myanmar’s north-west Sagaing region and wounded many ...
Myanmar’s neighbors are moving toward normalization, but engaging the incoming ‘civilian’ government will only consolidate ...
At 84, Tin Myaing Thein continues her decades of work helping immigrants and refugees navigate life in Hawaii, even as she ...
A few years ago, I attended a conference and sat down with Dr. Barry Kerzin, who is the personal physician of the Dalai Lama, the holy leader of the global Tibetan Buddhist movement. I wanted to ...
Nurul Shah Alam was nearly blind, spoke limited English and died after immigration agents abandoned him. His family were not ...
The Burmese meditation master Sayagyi U Ba Khin played a key role in shaping the meditation retreats that are popular today.