And many a Burmese will see in his temple ... But its deeper stimulus, as we learn from the temple inscriptions, was the Buddhist faith. Not content with worldly success and victories in battle ...

When the great King Anawrahta of Pagan united the whole of Burma into a ... and placed in a Vishnu temple, which was renamed "The Prison of the Gods." All the pre-Buddhist cults were suppressed.

For internal transportation, visitors can choose trains, buses, and domestic flights, although the railway infrastructure is ...

Many of them became wealthy, permanently settled down there and later commissioned Buddhist ... Burmese architectural heritage of Lampang, along with other interesting colonial buildings, at ...

In a monastery in central Myanmar, a Buddhist monk, Wathawa, rallies his militia with a cry: “What’s our spirit like?” “The spirit of iron!” shout a group of rifle-bearing men ...

BANGKOK--A study issued Tuesday by researchers collecting evidence of war crimes in Myanmar supported reports that air strikes by the military government damaged churches in the Buddhist ...