MAWLAMYINE, Myanmar (RNS) Two years ago, residents of the village of Taung Bone donated an estimated $120,000 to finance the cremation ceremony of Badana Kawnarnya, the chief abbot of a local ...
Bad karma may await a Manhattan funeral director — but right now he’s facing one hell of a lawsuit. A Buddhist family says a Chinatown funeral home mistakenly cremated their elderly mother’s body — ...
BANGKOK (Reuters) - When two month old Bibeam died in November 2023, the temples in her district would not cremate her, considering her too young for such a ceremony. Instead she was buried without ...
BANGKOK (AP) - The funeral for Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej is an elaborate, intricately planned event lasting five days. The ceremonies and processions are steeped in Buddhism, tradition and ...
More than a year after the death of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the country began a five-day run-up to the late monarch's cremation ceremony. Following Buddhist tradition, people dressed in ...
Cremation ceremony of Moe Myint, a Burmese victim of the Thailand mall shooting, in Nonthaburi NONTHABURI, Thailand (Reuters) - Among the hundreds mourning Moe Myint on Sunday was the mother of the ...
A small-scale model of the intricately constructed throne where the actual cremation will take place for the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej in October 2017. Amanda Mustard Construction of the royal pyre ...