BUNDANOON, Australia (Reuters) - Buddhist monk Phra Mana helped build his bush monastery with his bare hands three decades ago, but when Australia's worst wildfires in generations threatened to ...

There is no sign that marks the road that leads to the peaceful Temple Forest Monastery located on top of a secluded hill in Temple. Instead, visitors will find a saffron colored flag with a ...

In April 1994, the Venerable Sona (ne Tom West), a Coquitlam, BC-born-and-bred Buddhist monk from the austere and orthodox Thai Forest Tradition of Theravada Buddhism, travelled to a complex of ...

Forest-dwelling monks have kept an obscure Buddhist tradition alive in the Columbia River Gorge with the help of the White Salmon, Washington, community. A small house and a few huts sit at the end of ...

Monks protecting the Sorng Rukahvorn Community Forest in Oddar Meanchey province are committed to turn the area into a Buddhist-style natural tourist attraction for Cambodians and foreigners.

A monk who was meditating in a forest in India was killed by a prowling leopard, officials say. Rahul Walke had been sitting under a tree in the Tadoba forest, in the Indian state of Maharashtra, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Abbot of Sunnataram Forest Monastery, Phra Mana, 56, looks at the ruins of a burnt female dormitory in Bundanoon, Australia ...