Author: Staff Writer

Source: Boston Herald

Wire Service: AP

http://www.bostonherald.com/track/celebrity/view/20100220tiger_woods_says_hell_turn_to_buddhism_for_help/srvc=track&position=also

In the theater of American public apologies, it’s common for celebrities to invoke their faith.

Disgraced golf superstar Tiger Woods...

Author: Liz Balmaseda

Source: The Palm Beach Post

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/the-buddhists-in-our-backyard-residents-seek-the-261129.html

Days before the Dalai Lama's visit to Palm Beach County, Mimi Bailey steeples her hands close to her heart and joins the rhythmic waves of Buddhist chants rising in a sunny corner of Lake Worth.

It is the first day of the Tibetan New Year, Year of the Iron...

Author: Christopher Bodeen

Source: The Washington Post

Wire Service: AP

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/18/AR2010021805855.html

China on Friday protested President Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama, saying Washington had interfered in Chinese domestic affairs and demanding that the U.S. take steps to improve ties.

Vice Foreign Minister...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Google News

Wire Service: AFP

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iO0vtN6iprgTYEyTAR4RoZ_l_FlQ

Sri Lanka's top Buddhist monks called off a special gathering this week because of government pressure, a spokesman said Friday, while the opposition said bomb threats had been involved.

The Buddhist leaders had planned to meet on Thursday to...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

Wire Service: AAP

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/thieves-target-buddhist-monastery-in-sa-20100217-oag7.html

Eight men have assaulted two Buddhist monks and stolen religious books, cash and passports in an attack on a monastery in Adelaide, police say.

Just after 2am (CDST) on Wednesday...

Author: Norimitsu Onishi

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/world/asia/18indo.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y

As if on cue, the two Buddhist monks in saffron robes appeared one late afternoon recently, seemingly out of nowhere, to complete the picture of Indonesia’s religious past and present.

The visitors stood at the edge of a large fenced-off pit where a ninth-century Hindu temple had...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel/RIA Novosti

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=3,8929,0,0,1,0

Moscow authorities have allocated a plot of land on Poklonnaya Hill, a WWII memorial in the Russian capital's west for a Buddhist temple, a deputy Moscow mayor said Tuesday.

Author: Daniel Tedford

Source: Contra Costa Times

http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_14415472?nclick_check=1

While in Haiti on a charitable mission, Debra Boudreaux remembers meeting a man who came to pray near a medical clinic.

The man had lost his 4-year-old child in the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake and hadn't been to pray since. On the day he came to pray, he was overwhelmed with tears, Boudreaux said.

Author: Toshi Maeda

Source: Reuters

http://ca.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idCATRE6173CZ20100208

He raps. He chants. And this month, Japan's famed hip-hop loving monk, better known as MC Happiness, will tap dance on stage, in the name of Buddhism.

Kansho Tagai heads the 400-year-old Kyoouji Temple in central Tokyo, offering softly chanted prayers throughout the day amid traditional bell chimes and wafts of incense...

Author: Angela Lau

Source: The San Diego Union-Tribune

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/feb/06/rare-jade-buddha-unveiled-at-buddhist-monastery/

A 4½-ton statue of Buddha made of rare, dark jade has arrived in the county on its first stop in a U.S. tour to spread peace and happiness with its trademark smile of serenity and look of compassion.

The Jade Buddha of Universal Peace took...

Author: Yonat Shimron

Source: Kansas City Star

http://www.kansascity.com/255/story/1730128.html

The Venerable Lhundub Tendron wasn’t always a Buddhist nun. For most of her life, she wasn’t even a Buddhist.

She was Leslie Inman, a New Orleans native living in Charlotte, N.C., who was separated from her husband and searching, not very consciously, for inner peace.

She found it in a meditation group that taught her the...

Author: Suli Yi

Source: VOA News

http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/religion/For-Buddhists-San-Francisco-Offers-Many-Places-to-Worship-83039932.html

Situated on the West Coast of the United States, the city of San Francisco has long been home to many generations of Asians who immigrated to the United States.  In a lot of cases, they are Buddhists, but since they are from a...

Author: Do Je-hae

Source: The Korea Times

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/01/113_59889.html

The case of a drunken group of policemen beating up a monk is testing the relations between the Lee Myung-bak administration and the Buddhist circles.

The assault took place on the night of Jan. 19 at Yonghwa Temple in Gimpo, Gyeonggi Province. Jigwan, the chief monk of the temple, claimed that he went out when he...