Buddhist anarchists believe that complying with the unjust rules of society makes it almost impossible to follow the Buddha’s Dhamma. Just to survive in this world we have to exploit, to cheat, to ...

A Buddhist monk sits in front of a classroom of children in a small town in rural Myanmar. He chants lines which the students dutifully repeat, as they do every week at these Buddhist ‘Sunday school’ ...

Ma Ba Tha was established on 27 June 2013 and has spent the past four years promoting its version of Buddhist nationalism. It successfully lobbied for four race and religion restrictions which became ...

BANGKOK — A local resistance group fighting against Myanmar’s military government has acknowledged responsibility for the killing last week of a Buddhist monk and his disciple in the country’s eastern ...

YANGON, Myanmar — In May, during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, roughly 100 Buddhist nationalists armed with sticks and stones surrounded three Muslim prayer sites, blocking worshipers from ...

While the world keeps its eye on Myanmar’s firebrand monk U Wirathu and his encouragement of anti-Muslim sentiment, another prominent monk is also making headlines there … for entirely the opposite ...