Walking 2,700 kilometres barefoot might not be everyone’s idea of a spiritual journey, but for Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Minh Tuệ, it’s a path to enlightenment - and unexpected online fame. Since ...

A group of Buddhist monks and their rescue dog are striding single file down country roads and highways across southern ...

Thich Quang Do, a dissident Buddhist monk who has effectively been under house arrest since 2003 and was nominated multiple times for the Nobel Peace Prize, has died aged 93. Head of the banned ...

A popular Vietnamese monk and his companions have headed to Malaysia from Thailand after they failed to enter war-torn Myanmar on their walking pilgrimage to reach India, the birthplace of Buddhism, ...

(Reuters) -Human rights activists accused Communist-run Vietnam of infringing on freedom of religion after a court handed jail sentences this week to five ethnically Khmer Buddhist monks and four ...

Why an internet-famous Vietnamese monk is on a trek to India A Vietnamese monk who became an internet hit last year is going international.... Vietnamese followers of 'barefoot monk' question call for ...

Exiled for 40 years from Vietnam, Zen Buddhist monk and nonviolent anti-war activist Thich Nhat Hanh returned in January to his homeland and the monastery that he joined at the age of 16, more than 60 ...