Hundreds of monks from all over Southeast Asia, Bangladesh and Nepal demonstrated in front of the United Nations building in Bangkok on Wednesday, against bomb blasts at the Mahabodhi Temple in India. In Sri Lanka, a rally organised by the Sinhalese Buddhist nationalist group Bodu Bala Sena, attracted hundreds more monks who protested outside the Indian …
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Bodhgaya blasts injure Burmese monk
A series of explosions at one of India’s oldest and most prestigious Buddhist temples in eastern India has left two monks injured. Nine blasts went off within half an hour of each other at the Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya, in the early hours of Sunday morning. One of the injured was a Buddhist monk from …
MAI plane in near miss with Air India jet at Gaya airport
A disaster was narrowly averted on Wednesday when a MAl airliner strayed onto a runway at Gaya airport in India just minutes before an Air India flight was due to land.
Free visas to India could yield more pilgrims, longer waits
A decision this week by India to grant visas free of charge to Burmese nationals, likely a boon to Burma’s outbound tour operators, has been met with some concern by an association of travel agencies that specialise in pilgrimages to the sacred Buddhist site Bodh Gaya.
Burmese monk recounts Nepali earthquake experience
DVB speaks to Sayadaw Nanujjota-Bhivamsa of the international Buddhist Meditation Centre (IBMC) near Kathmandu about the Nepalese earthquake.
Look west: where Burma meets India
The borderline between Burma and India, a strip of insurgent-infested forest, will eventually be drawn with some precision. But as the line that separates the two countries becomes more distinct, their ruling administrations are ever more entwined.