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Bo Thong District, Chonburi, March 26, 2026, Local administrative officials raided a temple in Bo Thong district after receiving reports of drug involvement involving the abbot and his close disciple, resulting in the arrest of both men on drug-relat... [1]
CHIANG MAI – Phra Prachanatthamunee, the Abbot of Wat Don Chan in Chiang Mai, says the conflict in the Middle East and unstable oil prices are starting to affect daily merrit giving at the temple. [2]
NAKHON RATCHASIMA — A 22-year-old man from Sakon Nakhon province was found d [4]
The public can now pay their respects to Chaimongkol Temple’s founding abbot after monks opened a Buddhist chedi (stupa) stone transported from Koh Larn decades ago. [5]
The embattled former abbot of Wat Phra Bat Nam Phu has broken his silence about his early life, admitting he evaded military service and assumed a friend’s identity before illegally entering Malaysia where he worked for several years before returning... [6]
The former abbot of the Aids hospice at Wat Phra Bat Nam Phu and his fund-raiser on Wednesday denied all the fraud and embezzlement charges against them as a court approved a police request to extend their detention. [7]
CHIANG MAI, Thailand — More than a year after an outcry over a Thai attempt to take over the last Burmese monastery in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, Burmese Buddhists on Tuesday managed to officially install one of their countrymen as abbot. (confirmed by 2 sources) [8]
Abbot Penang Sayadaw U Pyinnya Wuntha has lashed out at the government-backed Buddhist clergy council, the State Sangha Maha Nayaka, over the forced eviction of his followers from Rangoon’s Maha Thanti Thukha Buddhist monastery on Tuesday. [9]
Bo Thong District, Chonburi, March 26, 2026, Local administrative officials raided a temple in Bo Thong district after receiving reports of drug involvement involving the abbot and his close disciple, resulting in the arrest of both men on drug-relat
CHIANG MAI – Phra Prachanatthamunee, the Abbot of Wat Don Chan in Chiang Mai, says the conflict in the Middle East and unstable oil prices are starting to affect daily merrit giving at the temple.
NAKHON RATCHASIMA — A 22-year-old man from Sakon Nakhon province was found d
The public can now pay their respects to Chaimongkol Temple’s founding abbot after monks opened a Buddhist chedi (stupa) stone transported from Koh Larn decades ago.
The embattled former abbot of Wat Phra Bat Nam Phu has broken his silence about his early life, admitting he evaded military service and assumed a friend’s identity before illegally entering Malaysia where he worked for several years before returning
The former abbot of the Aids hospice at Wat Phra Bat Nam Phu and his fund-raiser on Wednesday denied all the fraud and embezzlement charges against them as a court approved a police request to extend their detention.
CHIANG MAI, Thailand — More than a year after an outcry over a Thai attempt to take over the last Burmese monastery in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, Burmese Buddhists on Tuesday managed to officially install one of their countrymen as abbot.
Abbot Penang Sayadaw U Pyinnya Wuntha has lashed out at the government-backed Buddhist clergy council, the State Sangha Maha Nayaka, over the forced eviction of his followers from Rangoon’s Maha Thanti Thukha Buddhist monastery on Tuesday.
MANDALAY—Myanmar’s most influential abbot, Sitagu Sayadaw, has come in for widespread criticism over his comments about the inscription of the Bagan archaeological zone on UNESCO’s World Heritage list.