Watching quietly from the side-lines is the Venerable Dhammananda – female, and a Buddhist monk since 2003. Although the Sangha bars women from ordination, there are now around 100 bhikkhunis ...

BANGKOK--Seven Buddhist monks are among nine suspects who are being held in pretrial detention after being arrested for allegedly embezzling assets worth about 300 million baht ($8.9 million ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage. Buddhist monks and nuns who live in eastern Prince Edward Island say they were disappointed to hear some of the concerns expressed ...

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Many Buddhist monks and nuns choose a life of celibacy ... Khandro Rinpoche, a female Tibetan lama (spiritual teacher), suggests that there have always been women in the Sangha and that women ...

The only son of Malaysian billionaire Ananda Krishnan, Ven Ajahn Siripanyo gave up the world of riches and spoils to become a Buddhist monk. Mr Krishnan, also known as AK, is Malaysia's third ...