Reuters carried a beautiful photo essay on an illegal female Buddhist novice monk ordination ceremony held at the Songdhammakalyani Monastery in Nakhon Pathom province, Thailand on December 5, 2018. Since 1928 it has...
Eleven of the players and their coach were ordained as Buddhist monks on Wednesday during a ceremony attended by the widow of Saman Gunan, the diver who died. They did this to honor the Navy Seal who died while helping...
One does not need to become a monastic to follow the Buddha. Shakyamuni Buddha had disciples who were monastics, but also those who were not. Some were kings and in government and other professions. We often refer to...