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TWANTE, Myanmar -- When the bullock carts lugging passengers and produce pulled into Yangon, coated in the umber dust of the countryside, the people on board, if not the oxen, [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the execution of a Buddhist inmate in Texas whose request that his spiritual adviser be present in the execution chamber had been [...]

BANGALORE, India -- When I met Watareka Vijitha Thero in early 2014 in a suburb of Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital, he had been in hiding for nearly five months. [...]

HAT YAI, Thailand -- He had already endured a treacherous journey down the Bay of Bengal, squeezed in the belly of a fishing trawler, then squashed in a pickup truck [...]

BEIJING -- One man died and another was seriously injured when they set themselves on fire outside Tibetan Buddhism's holiest temple in the center of Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, according [...]

IMAGINE a boarding-school-educated young man, fluent in several languages and gifted with a camera, telling his beloved grandmother that he was becoming a Tibetan Buddhist monk. Never an easy tete-a-tete. [...]