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Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Carol Kruhen lifts up her pressed palms next to a statue of the Buddha after meditating at the New Jersey ...

of Theravada Buddhist cosmology). Yet this move is also, perhaps, a tacit acknowledgement that the wider format could, in terms of how Thai and Southeast Asian artworks are presented, benefit from a ...

A small Buddhist temple in Thailand has been left without any monks after they were all dismissed for failing drug tests, local officials have said. Four monks, including the abbot, tested ...