The skyline of Bagan, Burma (also known as Myanmar), is dotted with more than 2,200 Buddhist temples. Built largely in the 13th and 14th centuries, they’re beautiful — a dusty red sandstone or a ...

BANGKOKBANGKOK — Thailand’s Culture Ministry says foreign tourists should be barred from getting Buddhist tattoos while visiting because the practice is culturally insensitive. Culture Minister Niphit ...

A Spanish tourist faces deportation from Myanmar over a Buddha leg tattoo that offended monks, police said Monday, in a country where the influence of religious hardliners is growing. The man was ...

A Spanish tourist boasting a leg tattoo of Buddha has been deported from Myanmar after he offended monks with his inking. The influence of religious hardliners is growing in the country and the man ...

A female British tourist in Sri Lanka has been detained and faces deportation for having a Buddha tattoo on her arm. The woman was arrested at Colombo’s international airport on Monday upon arrival ...

Sri Lankan authorities have denied a British tourist entry because of his 'disrespect' for Buddhism on arrival at the airport. An immigration official at Colombo's international airport said that when ...

Wiz Khalifa has over a hundred tattoos on his body, and over the weekend he decided to get one more. The rapper showed off his latest ink -- the Buddha's face tatted on his left thigh -- on Twitter.

Mr Ratcliffe got the tattoo in Burma, and says it was not something he took lightly A British tourist is "shocked and upset" after being deported from Sri Lanka for displaying a Buddha tattoo on his ...

Sri Lanka has detained a female British tourist for having a Buddha tattoo on her right arm and ordered her deportation, police said Tuesday. The unidentified woman was arrested at the country's main ...