One of China’s former highest-ranking Buddhist monks sexually harassed nuns, China’s top religious regulator said Thursday, just weeks after he strongly denied the accusations against him. In a ...

BEIJING – One of China's highest-ranking Buddhist monks is facing a government investigation over accusations of sexual misconduct, in what is seen by some as an indication the #MeToo movement is ...

In China, religion is big business. The famed Shaolin Temple owns dozens of companies and its abbot is popularly known as the "CEO monk." Two of China's four sacred Buddhist mountains are publicly ...

(Updates with raid details in paragraphs 2-3) BEIJING, April 17 (Reuters) - Armed police raided a monastery in northwest China and detained dozens of Tibetan Buddhist monks on Thursday, following anti ...

Tibetan Monks are staging their biggest protest in nearly two decades against Chinese rule. Hundreds of demonstrators joined the Buddhist monks in the capital, Lhasa. Chinese state news agency reports ...

BEIJING, April 17 (Reuters) - Police in northwestern China detained about 20 ethnic Tibetan Buddhist monks on Thursday following anti-Chinese protests in February, according to a Beijing-based source ...

June 5, 2008, 6:43 AM EDT / Source: The Associated Press Chinese police have arrested 16 Tibetan Buddhist monks who were allegedly involved in a series of bombings after unrest swept the Himalayan ...

It is not every day that a group of Tibetan Buddhist monks come to visit Durango. After all, Durango is a long way from the ...

Dharamshala, India • Tibetan Buddhist monks from around the world are gearing up to discuss whether the aging Dalai Lama should reincarnate — and, if he does, then how to prevent Beijing from claiming ...

Seven Buddhist monks will be in Billings Sunday and Monday to give programs on their beliefs and art. The monks are from the Tashi Lhunpo monastery-in-exile, located in the state of Karnataka in India ...