Sarawak assistant minister for tourism Datuk Lee Kim Shin, Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) secretary-general Datuk Sebastian Ting and Miri City councillors led the visits to Buddhist temples here ...

Bangkok, Thailand – Wanitcha Amkham rotates her roti stall between the Thai capital’s food markets throughout the week, hawking pan-fried dough that has been perfected in recipes passed down ...

Myanmar – Scattered across the lush, rolling hills of southern Myanmar’s Tanintharyi region, rebel fighters stationed at checkpoints inspect cars and trucks traveling towards a nearby town ...

On the day the crew was having coffee, Enscoe was on tour in Alaska, with the folk trio Bandits on the Run. “Folk music has always had a big storytelling bent to it,” he will tell me later ...

Lion-like figure that appears in folk performances, royal court dances, and Buddhist dances. In masked dance-dramas, this role is portrayed by an actor donning a lion mask. In Korea, Saja (Korean ...

a folk pantheism they share with some 5% of Mongolians. About 50% of the populace is Tibetan Buddhist, 40% are atheist (thanks no doubt to 70 years of Communism under the Soviets), with the ...

Meet Milo who will take you on a tour and talk you through some of the interesting features at his local temple. Milo: Hi, I’m Milo, and I’m a Buddhist. And this is a Buddhist temple.

The most religiously diverse country is Singapore, with 33.9 per cent of its population following Buddhism, 18.2 per cent Christian, 14.3 per cent Muslim, 5.2 per cent Hindu, 2.3 per cent adhering to ...

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which are said to have been painted by the folk artist Rén Cháo. The frescoes cover more than 150 square meters of the temple and feature more than 500 different characters. They refer to almost all ...

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