Buddhism

Monks Lead Pro-Tibet Demonstration in Raleigh

March 30, 2008

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel/WRAL.com

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=61,6152,0,0,1,0

Activists in the Triangle on Saturday joined calls around the world urging support for a protest movement in the Chinese province of Tibet.

About 50 people gathered on the lawn outside the State Capitol Building to pray for peace in Tibet, where peaceful demonstrations led by Buddhist monks turned violent about two...

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Immigration, Pluralism Bring New Faiths to Fox Valley

March 30, 2008

Source: Courier News

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/couriernews/lifestyles/866504,3_5_EL30_FAITH_S1.article

The building retains its classically American-Protestant design outside, right up to the steeple pointing heavenward. Inside, the pews have been removed to accommodate Eastern worshippers, and the former pulpit focal point has given way to a 6-foot-tall white marble statue of Sai Baba.

This is the Shirdi Sai Temple, a...

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Ithaca's Buddhist Monastery Unique in U.S.

March 29, 2008

Author: Parveen Talpur

Source: Star-Gazette/Gannett News Service

http://www.star-gazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080329/LIFE/803290309/1035

Tucked inside a turn-of-the-century Victorian house at 412 Aurora St. in Ithaca is a well-known Buddhist monastery that draws in students and visitors from all over North America.

"From the outside, you couldn't tell it is a temple because it is a house in a...

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Berlin Temple to Attract Germans to Sri Lanka

March 25, 2008

Author: Janaka Perera

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Asian Tribune

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=3,6096,0,0,1,0

The Buddhist Vihara at Berlin could play a major role in attracting German Buddhists to Sri Lanka, according to Tourism Deputy Minister Faiz Mustapha. The Deputy Minister told this [to] the Venerable Wilachchiye Dhammavijaya Thera during a visit to the temple this month.

Mr. Mustapha who visited the temple with a...

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Linh Son Temple

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Phone: 616-364-0375

Rattanamoungkhoun Temple

Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 20 March 2008.

Phone: 951-926-0109

Southern Thailand Hotel Bombing Spurs Security Warnings

March 18, 2008

Author: Simon Montlake

Source: The Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0318/p99s01-duts.html

Recent attacks in Thailand's restless Muslim-dominated south have rattled Thailand's new government, which called an emergency meeting March 21 with security chiefs. Two people died in a blast Saturday outside a luxury hotel in Pattani Province that is popular with Thai government officials, visiting foreign diplomats, and reporters. A...

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Prayer for Peace in Tibet Said at Buddhist Temple in Kalmykia

March 17, 2008

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Interfax-Religion

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=3,6058,0,0,1,0

A prayer service for a peaceful settlement of the situation in China's Tibet Autonomous Region was being conducted on Sunday at the Golden Shakyamuni Buddha Shrine temple in Elista, Kalmykia.

The prayer was being conducted by Doctor of Buddhist Philosophy, Geshe Tenzin Dugda and by monks, and was being attended...

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Curbs on Protest in Tibet Lashed by Dalai Lama

March 17, 2008

Author: SOMINI SENGUPTA

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/17/world/asia/17tibet.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

The Dalai Lama accused China on Sunday of waging “cultural genocide” against his followers in Tibet and called for an international inquiry into the suppression of protests there, his strongest defense to date of Tibetan Buddhists who have staged an uprising...

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Religion-Affiliated Schools Offer Study in Single Faith

March 17, 2008

Author: Huang Yi-jing

Source: Taipei Times

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2008/03/17/2003405885

The country's religion-affiliated schools are accepting applications for the upcoming school year after the Ministry of Education (MOE) agreed last year to allow religion-based schools to set up departments devoted to the study of a single faith.

The decision was a major move for the ministry, which historically...

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Human Rights Could End Council Prayers

March 14, 2008

Author: Raymond Brown

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Cambridge-news

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=3,6043,0,0,1,0

THE tradition of prayers before council meetings faces the axe - under the banner of political correctness.

And Buddhist chants at the start of Cambridge City Council's meetings by a monk could also fall foul of race discrimination and human rights laws.

The ancient custom now hangs in the balance...

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Buddhist Revival in Mongolia

March 12, 2008

Author: Stefan Lovgren

Source: The Buddhist Channel/TOL

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=47,6059,0,0,1,0

On the banks of the remote Uur River in northern Mongolia, the Dayan Derkh monastery stands as a testament to Mongolia's religious revival.

This was one of hundreds of Buddhist monasteries destroyed in the 1930s as the Soviet Union brought Mongolia under its control and effectively banned Buddhism here. For decades,...

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