She has been working at PEOPLE since 2017. All four monks at a small Buddhist temple in northern Thailand were defrocked after reportedly failing drug tests. The monks, which included an abbot ...

The White Temple, Chiang Rai, Thailand (Wat Rong Khun) Most people come to this area specifically to visit the nearby White Temple – one of the top places to visit in Chiang Rai, without a doubt.

Ethnic Malay Muslim insurgents in southern Thailand shot dead Pongkorn Chumapan, 16, and wounded Pokanit Morasin, 12, on ...

However, Thailand offers much more. Its northern parts are home to majestic Buddhist temples, heritage sites, ancient culture, karst cliffs, tropical jungles, animal sanctuaries, and awesome ...

Some Buddhist temples in Thailand are extremely wealthy because their followers donate large amounts as a way of making religious merit.

The Temple of the Reclining Buddha, known as Wat Pho in Thai, is a Buddhist temple complex which is most known for its gold-plated "Reclining Buddha" sculpture. The Buddha measures 151 feet long ...

Dressed in flowers, finery and make-up, scores of boys were paraded around a temple in Thailand after having their heads shaved – a symbolic start to a centuries-old Shan monkhood ordination.

A temple in Thailand is constructing a massive sculpture of a 16th century Thai monk's head. The Baan Pho temple in Chacheongsao, located east of Bangkok, is in the midst of building a 17 metre ...

Chiang Mai (Thailand) (AFP) – Dressed in flowers, finery and makeup, scores of boys were paraded around a temple in Thailand after having their heads shaved -- a symbolic start to a centuries ...