A Buddhist monk allegedly embezzled more than $9 million from the prominent temple he ran which was funded by donations from devotees.

Significant anthropomorphic images of the Buddha began to emerge in Northern India in the first century AD, some 600 years after Buddha Siddhartha Gautama lived and died. From the end of the 1st ...

Places like Wat Phra Kaew had royal artists and ... Bangkok Yai khlong and you'll sail past the 69-metre-tall meditating Buddha statue at Wat Paknam. "You're still in Bangkok, but life feels ...