Buddhism

Harvard Groups Discuss Nirvana

March 3, 2008

Author: JIHAE LEE

Source: The Buddhist Channel/The Harvard Crimson

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=60,5992,0,0,1,0

The Harvard College Buddhist Community and Dharma, Harvard’s Hindu students association, came together for the first time this weekend in a two-part event to discuss the concepts of nirvana, the Buddhist term that describes perfect peace of mind, and moksha, the Hindu concept of self-realization and liberation from...

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Armies of the Enlightened

March 1, 2008

Author: Christian Caryl

Source: Newsweek

http://www.newsweek.com/id/117810

In recent years, massive groups of fervent believers have taken to the streets of Asia with angry political demands. They've railed against government corruption, condemned the onslaught of Western values and decried the erosion of traditional morals. Having built an extensive network of grass-roots aid groups, their numbers are exploding. Some have even picked up arms to defend their beliefs....

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Palri Pema Od Ling

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Monks and Nuns in Court over September Protests

February 29, 2008

Author: MIN LWIN

Source: The Buddhist Channel/The Irrawaddy

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=82,5997,0,0,1,0

Nine monks and seven nuns - some of them elderly - were awaiting sentence after facing charges of involvement in last September’s protests against Burma’s ruling junta, according to opposition sources and witnesses in Rangoon.

Witnesses said that eight monks and seven nuns from Thitsar Tharaphu Monastery...

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State High Court Hears Buddhist Temple Case

February 29, 2008

Author: Jim Brooks

Source: NWANews/Akansas Democrat-Gazette

http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/218246/

A dispute over control of a Buddhist temple was the subject of oral arguments Thursday in the state Supreme Court, one issue being who should have been allowed to vote in an election in which rival groups sought the Wat Buddha Samakitham temple in Fort Smith.

An attorney for one group argued that a circuit judge had improperly intervened in...

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Theravada Buddhist Programme Organized at Kursk

February 28, 2008

Author: Srimal Silva

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Sinhalaya News Agency

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=3,5971,0,0,1,0

The students of Kursk State Medical University (KSMU), in Russia organized a Theravada Buddhist religious programme on the 10th of February within the university premises.

This was a first for any Russian city other than Moscow, and the event occurred in Kursk, the city with the largest Sri Lankan student...

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Adding a Little Harmony

February 25, 2008

Author: SASKIA KONYNENBURG

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Northern Advocate

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=50,5962,0,0,1,0

A BUDDHIST Stupa which aims to emit special energy bringing peace and harmony to the surrounding community was opened on top of a hill overlooking Whangarei yesterday.

As dark clouds blackened the city, sun shone on the Tibetan Buddhist Centre in Parakiore Rd where the Stupa has been completed after...

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Insurgency Hotbeds Increase in Thailand

February 23, 2008

Author: AMBIKA AHUJA

Source: Fox News

Wire Service: AP

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Feb23/0,4670,ThailandUnderSiege,00.html

The tea shop is abandoned. Rubber plantations stand untended. Soldiers constantly patrol the one-lane road leading into this Muslim village.

Rae Poh was once designated a "green zone" village, one of more than 1,600 such islands of peace amid the violence that...

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