The Shwedagon (Plate 26), set on the highest hill in Rangoon, is the largest Buddhist temple of its kind in the ... tells us that Buddhism first came to Burma from northern India, and the Tantric ...

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 ...

Other sources confirmed that the Myanmar ... resemble Buddhist temples, though in places like Yangon some temples also bear the distinct imprint of South Indian or Bengal temple architecture.

Kampung Siam, a settlement of Malaysians with Siamese and Burmese ancestry, is closing the final page of its 200- year-old ...

BANGKOK--Airstrikes by Myanmar’s military on two villages ... a fighter jet dropped three bombs on Nyaung Kone village’s Buddhist monastery and nearby houses at about 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday ...