Every year, on the full moon day of the sixth lunar month, Buddhists worldwide come together to honor Vesak, which ...

THAILAND — A colorful symmetry in prayer stations: Thai Buddhist monks pray as they gather at Wat Dhammakaya temple to participate in Makha Bucha Day ceremonies in Pathum Thani that were ...

Our work is not finished". Bangkok (AsiaNews) - Phra Dhammachyao, abbot of the Buddhist Wat Dhammakaya temple, one of the richest and most extensive in the world, under police siege since ...

Bangkok (AsiaNews) – The Government of Thailand has asked Wat Phra Dhammakaya, Thailand’s largest Buddhist temple (Wat), to pick a new monk as its abbot. The temple’s former leader ...

As controversial as it appears otherworldly, the Wat Dhammakaya temple had been in the news for years. Then, in February 2017, police efforts to arrest Abbot Phra Dhammachayo, the temple's ...

With space for more than a 100,000 people to meditate, the Dhammakaya sect’s temple complex is larger than life -- and it encourages its followers to be the same. Critics accuse the Dhammakaya ...

Devotees of the Dhammakaya meet at the Temple of a Thousand BuddhasCredit: Getty Images The incredible scenes, in a stunning spaceship-like temple in Bangkok, were filmed by Channel 4’s ...

A half century ago the land where Wat Phra Dhammakaya sits was nothing more than a rice field, according to the Dhammakaya Foundation, the organization headquartered there. But today it’s home ...

The Dhammakaya sect, a wealthy Buddhist order founded in 1970, was steered to riches by the septuagenarian monk Phra Dhammachayo. He won the devotion of super-rich Thai politicians and businessmen ...

Movements such as the Dhammakaya Temple have been able to attract thousands of followers and organize a worldwide network. Santi Asoka (another well-known group) is openly critical of the Sangha ...

Efforts to bring greater control over Buddhism have intensified since March, when the influential Dhammakaya Temple defied a three-week siege by police searching for its former abbot on money ...