Now he calls a quiet corner of southern Scotland his home, where he is the abbot of the Samye Ling Buddhist monastery near Eskdalemuir. In his youth he was angry with his brother, Akong Rinpoche ...

Forty-one bodies have been found inside a Buddhist monastery in Thailand where they were allegedly being used in meditation ...

Jalue Dorje knew it would be the last big party before he joins a monastery in the Himalayan foothills -- thousands of miles from his home in a Minneapolis suburb, where he grew up like a typical ...

Three Buddhist nuns enter their monastery building in Brudenell, P.E.I. (Wayne Thibodeau/CBC) "I don't know what they are ...

When plans for a huge Buddhist temple on the outskirts of Edinburgh had to be shelved, monks based in what was once a family home in the city decided to transform it instead. A renovation project ...

Wat Buddhapadipa is in Wimbledon, London. It opened in 1976 and was the first Thai Buddhist Temple to be built in the UK. It is home to both monks and nuns. The Buddhist scriptures are known as ...