Author: Paul Liberatore

Source: The Buddhist Channel/The Marin Independent Journal

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=12,9718,0,0,1,0

After a 20-year career as a still photographer, Marin's Heather Kessinger makes her filmmaking debut with "In the Shadow of Buddha," a documentary that takes viewers into the seldom-seen world of Tibetan Buddhist nuns in northernmost India. While beautifully photographed, it doesn't paint a completely...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Times of India

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/the-good-earth/Monks-lead-marathon-march-to-save-Himalayas/articleshow/7028236.cms

For those living in Darjeeling, banner-led political processions are quite an ordinary sight, but as a large contingent including monks and nuns who embarked on a marathon march on foot...

Author: Mich Moxley

Source: The Buddhist Channel/IPS News

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=46,9707,0,0,1,0

Quan Zhenyuan discovered Buddhism by accident. After the owner of a vegetarian restaurant here in the Chinese capital gave her a book about the religion, she became hooked. Today, Quan is one of a growing number of urban Chinese who turn to Buddhism for spiritual fulfillment.

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel/The ATelegraph

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=44,9703,0,0,1,0

A Buddhist temple in Kyoto is displaying its historic sculptures in 3D on iPads in a bid to provide 21st century appreciation of the artefacts.

Author: Frances Dinkelspiel

Source: The Buddhist Channel/The Berkeley Side

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=65,9705,0,0,1,0

Harold Way, a small street in the heart of downtown Berkeley, has become a new center for Tibetan Buddhism. In the last two years, followers of Tarthang Tulku, a Tibetan lama who came to Berkeley in 1969, have purchased three buildings next door to one another — a whole city block.

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel/DPA

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=3,9686,0,0,1,0

Europe's largest Buddhist centre has got the go-ahead for a site at a former military complex outside Cologne, it was confirmed Friday.

Author: Barney Zwartz

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

http://www.smh.com.au/national/melbourne-life/a-focus-on-faith-20101115-17ugo.html

A scrubby bush in the desert may seem an odd candidate for a sacred space, but so it was - according to the biblical account - when Moses approached the burning bush that fire did not consume. ''Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground,'' he was...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Western Buddhist Teachers for a Free Burma

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=70,9671,0,0,1,0

On November 1, 2010, the who's who of Buddhist teachers in the United States wrote a letter to President Barack Obama, imploring his administration to "to repudiate the results of the upcoming election" in Burma.

They have also asked for the establishment of a Commission...

Author: Srianthi Perera

Source: The Buddhist Channel/The Arizona Republic

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=64,9672,0,0,1,0

A Buddhist ceremony rarely performed in the Western world is scheduled to take place in Mesa on Saturday.

The Arizona International Buddhist Meditation Center will hold the Atavisi Buddha Puja, a devotional ceremony to pay homage to the 28 Buddhas in this eon. An eon in Buddhism is a...

Author: Mary Thomas

Source: The Pittsburgh Post Gazette

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11012/1117205-437.stm

Fumino Hora's exhibition at the Pittsburgh Glass Center is exotic yet accessible, spare yet brimming with objects, inspired by imperfection but perfect.

"The Way of Samsara" is an installation but comprises individual artworks that arise from aspects of Buddhism and from Ms. Hora's life experiences. As such it blends...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Religion & Ethics Newsweekly (PBS)

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/episodes/november-12-2010/zen-hospital-chaplains/7471/

ROB BUNDY (Buddhist Chaplain Trainee, speaking to patient): Instead of pushing that pain away, just let it be. You are not the pain. That pain is something that doesn’t have to be who you are. Just let your breath take that pain away from...

Author: Hilary Barclay

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Evening Times

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=3,9657,0,0,1,0

An inaugural one-year diploma course will be open to students from the start of the next academic year in September 2011.

Author: Hermia Lin

Source: The Buddhist Channel/CNA

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=48,9660,0,0,1,0

Six Tibetan Buddhist nuns from Europe and the United States were ordained in a solemn ceremony held in Taipei on Sunday and they said they will try their best to make Buddhism take root in the West.

With the help of Venerable Heng-ching, the Committee of Western Bhikshunis, and Sakyadhita International, the six Buddhist...

Source: The Buddhist Channel/CDN

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=40,9652,0,0,1,0

For the first time in Bhutan’s history, the Buddhist nation’s government seems ready to grant much-awaited official recognition and accompanying rights to a miniscule Christian population that has remained largely underground.

The authority that regulates religious organizations will discuss in its next meeting – to be held by the end of December...

Author: Anju Bhargava

Source: The Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anju-bhargava/out-of-many-one-diwali-il_b_778973.html

Diwali is a joyous festival of lights, celebrated by Hindus, Jains, Sikhs, Buddhists (Dharmic traditions) and the festive spirit expressed by those of "any, all and no faith." Though celebrated for different reasons, it has evolved from a pan-Indian festivity uniting multicultural...