Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Buddhist monks stand in front of Thai policemen outside Wat Dhammakaya temple in Pathum Thani province, Thailand, Thursday, Feb.

BANGKOK – State prosecutors in Thailand say they intend to indict the head of a powerful Buddhist sect on charges of money laundering and related crimes. The Office of the Attorney-General announced ...

Largest Buddhist sect's leader Ven. Jinwoo, chief of the Jogye Order, South Korea's largest Buddhist sect, speaks during a ...

Buddhist monks chant around a spaceship-shaped golden shrine, as Thai sect Dhammakaya lights 300,000 LED lanterns and candles in the shapes of continents and Buddhas to mark Earth Day. The ...

BANGKOK, Thailand — Among all the angry protesters trying to oust him from office -- the students, the workers, the farmers and the artists -- it is an army of 10,000 celibate vegetarian Buddhists ...

Thai police say they will again try to arrest Buddhist sect leader Phra Dhammajayo in the next coming days after thousands of his followers foiled their attempt Thursday by blocking the approach to ...

With more than 3,000 temples, 13,000 monks and seven million followers, the Jogye Order is followed by most of South Korea's Buddhists and is highly influential in a country where religion remains a ...

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PATHUM THANI, Thailand (AP) — Thai police raided the head temple of a controversial Buddhist sect but failed to find and arrest the abbot, who faces criminal charges over accepting $40 million in ...

BANGKOK (AP) — The head of a powerful Buddhist sect in Thailand will be indicted next week on charges of money laundering and related crimes involving millions of embezzled funds that allegedly ...