The Thai soccer team and their coach who were trapped in a cave for more than two weeks before being rescued had their heads shaved Tuesday while they preparing for Buddhist ordination. Eleven of the ...

In recent years, many Buddhist nuns have taken on leadership roles that require either ordination status or academic degrees, all of which was quite unheard of in Buddhist monastic traditions in the ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. In Taiwan, there are far more Buddhist nuns than Buddhist monks. But in other countries like Thailand, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thai men can be ordained from a few days to the rest of their lives. Pakin Songmor/Moment via Getty Images The new season of “The ...

(RNS) — On Tuesday (June 21), the Je Khenpo, the senior Buddhist authority in Bhutan, began ordaining a group of 144 women as bhikshunis, or female monks, at the Ramthangkha monastery in the tiny ...