chief archaeologist of Pagan’s breathtaking 1,000-year-old Buddhist temples, points out an enormous pentagonal pyramid sparkling in the morning sunlight, dominating this arid central Burma plain ...

The temple was originally built to house two jade statues brought in from Burma. But over time ... the temple is one of Shanghai's few active Buddhist monasteries, so many monks call this place ...

Myanmar's religious temples stood as symbols of faith and history. After the recent 7.7 magnitude earthquake, many are ...

And the Buddhist shrine, with its attendant ... symbolizing the life of ascetic renunciation. And many a Burmese will see in his temple’s over-all form the person of the Buddha seated in ...

The Burmese Buddhist Association in Elmhurst is collecting monetary donations to be sent to Myanmar, where a 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit Friday. Officials said Monday that the death toll has passed 2 ...

the largest concentration of Buddhist monuments in the world. Bagan’s millennium-old brick structures are Burma’s equivalent of Angkor Wat, the famous ancient stone temple of Cambodia.