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Myanmar gives official blessing to anti-Muslim monks http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/27/us-myanmar-969-specialreport-idUSBRE95Q04720130627 (Reuters) - The Buddhist extremist movement in Myanmar, known as 969, portrays itself as a grassroots creed. Its chief proponent, a monk...

Tibetan monks fired on for marking Dalai Lama's birthday Police in a restive Tibetan part of southwestern China opened fire on a group of monks and others who had gathered to mark the birthday of exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, seriously injuring at least two of them, a rights group...

View a fantastic slideshow of Nihang warriors in encampment at this link Nihangs, last warring monks of the Sikh faith. Nihangs, last warring monks of the Sikh faith. Last guardians of the warrior Sikh traditions, thousands of Nihang monks roam across Punjab: a...

JALANDHAR: As the world watched media images of clean-shaven Buddhist monks in maroon marching down Yangon's streets demanding democracy in Myanmar, the attention of some was drawn to a bearded, turbaned man. Incongruous as it seemed, it was a Sikh fighting with the pro-democracy agitators. More...