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 (Reuters) A stand-off in Thailand between investigators and a powerful Buddhist sect intensified after its influential abbot failed to appear at a police station to answer graft charges ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Devotees meditate at Wat Phra Dhammakaya, a Buddhist temple in Pathum Thani province, Thailand, on June 16, 2016 Thai police say they will again try to arrest Buddhist sect leader Phra Dhammajayo in ...

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 ...