Vietnamese monk-turned-peace-activist Thich Nhat Hanh, a hugely influential Buddhist credited with bringing mindfulness to the West, has died aged 95. The Zen master, whose reach within Buddhism is ...

The only state-sanctioned Buddhist organization in Vietnam has called on its followers to work with government agencies to bring benefits to the nation and Buddhism at its congress. The Vietnam ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Thich Quang Do, a ...

Many of the members are refugees from the country that was ripped apart by war until the south fell to the communist north in 1975. The temple was founded in Bloomfield that year by those who had ...

A member of a dissident Buddhist group in Vietnam has died after setting himself on fire in protest at what the group called the repression of religious freedoms by the communist authoroties. The man, ...

As a world-renowned Buddhist scholar, Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh has become almost synonymous with the words reconciliation and healing. Exiled by both North and South in the 1960s, he focused ...

HANOI, Vietnam >> Thich Quang Do, a Buddhist monk who became the public face of religious dissent in Vietnam while the Communist government kept him in prison or under house arrest for more than 20 ...

FILE - In this July 8, 2003, file photo, Buddhist monk Thich Quang Do, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee and perhaps the most prominent dissident in Vietnam, talks during an interview at the Thanh Minh Zen ...