For much of late September, the road to the eastern gateway of Rangoon’s revered Shwedagon pagoda was a sea of maroon and saffron robes, as hundreds of Buddhist monks gathered to march in protest ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) – More than 100 monks in Myanmar demonstrated Friday at Bangladesh’s embassy to protest recent attacks against Buddhist temples and homes in Myanmar’s South Asian neighbor. The ...

YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar's military government issued a threat Monday to the barefoot Buddhist monks who led 100,000 people marching in the strongest protests against the repressive regime in two ...

The incident revealed complexities in the military's relationship with Buddhism, central to Myanmar's cultural fabric. Initially blamed on resistance fighters, the monk's death was later confirmed as ...

A funeral cortege of the late monk Bhaddanta Munindarbhivamsa moves in a street in Bago, Myanmar, Thursday, June 27, 2024. Hundreds of people attended the funeral on Thursday of a senior monk who was ...

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MANDALAY, Myanmar (Reuters) - Beneath the veneer of serenity and religious devotion, Myanmar's maroon-robed Buddhist monks, the engine of the protests six months ago against the ruling junta, are ...

YANGON, Myanmar -- Thousands of Buddhist monks and pro-democracy activists marched toward the center of Yangon on Wednesday in defiance of the military government's ban on public assembly. The march ...

Exiled activist and Buddhist master U Pyinya Zawta and two of his companions led meditation and Q-and-A sessions on Tuesday as part of a three-part program to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the ...

[NOTE: The junta that runs the country imposed a systematic name change several years ago, decreeing that Burma was to be called Myanmar and the capital Rangoon was to be Yangon. The opposition has ...

YANGON, Myanmar – Tens of thousands of Buddhist monks defied orders from the military junta to stay out of politics, relaunching mass protests today in the country’s two biggest cities. The monks, ...