Buddhism

Malaysian Buddhists Lose Conversion Case

January 29, 2008

Author: JULIA ZAPPEI

Source: Lexington Herald-Leader

Wire Service: AP

http://www.kentucky.com/524/story/300839.html

A Malaysian court on Tuesday rejected a petition to have a dead man declared a Buddhist after he was buried as a Muslim in the latest interfaith dispute to rock this multiethnic but largely Muslim nation.

Relatives of the late Gan Eng Gor had asked the High Court in southern Seremban state to reverse...

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Buddhists Offered a Home: Mansfield Zen Center's Founder 'Here to Support'

January 26, 2008

Author: ANGEL N. ROSS

Source: Mansfield News Journal

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=62,5826,0,0,1,0

MANSFIELD, OH (USA) -- Michael Minock, founder of the Mansfield Zen Center, is reaching out to other Zen Buddhists who would like to practice with him. "I'm here to support Buddhist practice," Minock said.

The Mansfield Zen Center is in the living room of Minock's Lexington Avenue apartment -- until he can get a building or...

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China Cracks Down on Tibetan Buddhism Ahead of Olympics

January 25, 2008

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Radio Free Asia

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=46,5830,0,0,1,0

Chinese authorities in Tibet have recruited more than 140 Tibetan youths to perform traditional dances at the forthcoming Beijing Olympics, even as they impose new curbs on Buddhist culture in the Himalayan region, sources there say.

“The Chinese authorities believe that monasteries are the chief centers...

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Vietnamese Open First Buddhist Temple in Czech Republic

January 24, 2008

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Prague Daily Monitor/ÄŒTK

http://www.praguemonitor.com/en/258/czech_national_news/17592/

The first Buddhist temple in the Czech Republic has been opened in Varnsdorf, north Bohemia, on the initiative of the local Vietnamese community, the daily Pravo wrote Wednesday.

The local Vietnamese have even had gold-plated statues and a Buddhist monk transported from Taiwan, the paper writes.

"It is...

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Voting at Churches Draws Protest

January 24, 2008

Author: Bae Ji-sook

Source: Religion News Service/Korea Times

http://pewforum.org/news/rss.php?NewsID=14822

Religious groups are protesting that voting places are being unequally allocated to protestant churches, and are moving to file a petition with the Constitutional Court next month. They are appealing that the unequal allotment of the facilities is discriminatory and goes against the principle of neutrality that the country should uphold in elections....

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Inner Peace at Maitreya Centre

January 23, 2008

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Hasting Observer

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=3,5807,0,0,1,0

The success of a weekly meditation class in Bexhill led to the opening of the Maitreya Buddhist Centre in Sea Road.

Local interest in meditation continues to grow, according to administrator Andrew Durling, who says the centre is "thriving" as it enters its third year.

A full programme of meditation...

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Malaysian Islamic Authorities in New Corpse Row: Report

January 21, 2008

Author: Staff Writer

Source: AFP

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jg1ybBNZjTL_dVrpKh3o35ETG2KA

Malaysian police have seized the body of an ethnic Chinese man in the latest dispute between Islamic authorities and family members over a disputed conversion, a report said Monday.

The eldest son of Gan Eng Gor, who died on Sunday aged 74, said his father became a Muslim last July, but his other children reject the claim and...

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Shaolin Monks Bring Schools to Bay Area

January 21, 2008

Author: Matthew Artz

Source: The buddhist Channel/Inside Bay Area

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=65,5789,0,0,1,0

All it took was one Jet Li kung fu movie for Shi Yanran to know what he wanted to do, way before he was all grown up.

The 25-year-old Buddhist monk was just 6 years old when he watched "Shaolin Temple" on video.

He was so transfixed by the fighting scenes and the 1,500-year-old Buddhist monastery...

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Public Hearing Set For Proposed Buddhist Temple

January 21, 2008

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The buddhist Channel/WMTW Portland

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=60,5785,0,0,1,0

A public hearing is set for Monday night before the Buxton Planning Board on an application to establish a Buddhist temple on a quiet rural road in the southern Maine town. Members of the region's Cambodian community want to set up the temple in a single-family house and attached commercial building they bought two years...

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Boisean Teaches the Way of the American Buddhist

January 20, 2008

Author: Dana Oland

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Idaho Statesman

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=65,5787,0,0,1,0

"We have the Buddha nature inside all of us," Dana Marsh says, smiling. "We just have to sit and it will uncover. Pay attention and we can recognize it."

She sits across the table sipping hot tea, draped in bright red and creamy white. Her home is comfortably uncluttered but not spartan: a little Zen, but not too...

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