Buddhism

Wat Lao Dhammavanno

Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 29 July 2008.

Phone: 239-731-6944

Dancing, Smiles, Unity at 63rd Obon Fest

July 28, 2008

Author: Cody Glenn

Source: The Daily Journal

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=60,6883,0,0,1,0

Late in the evening, the lines between performers and onlookers vanished at the 63rd annual Obon Memorial Folk Dance Festival as the always-popular audience participation dance got under way.

More than 300 audience members, wearing T-shirts and shorts, left the safety of their lawn chairs Saturday evening to join performers in...

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Newtown Dispute Continues Over Buddhist Society's Rights

July 19, 2008

Author: Elizabeth Hamilton

Source: The Hartford Courant

http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-buddhists0719.artjul19,0,3266656.story?page=1

When the Cambodian Buddhist Society lost its plea before the state Supreme Court six months ago to build a temple on a Newtown hilltop, both the residents who lived near the proposed temple and the Buddhists who wanted to build it believed their long battle was over.

But...

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Pope Benedict XVI Meets Non-Christian Leaders

July 18, 2008

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Australian

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24039586-2702,00.html

Leaders of non-Christian faiths have met Pope Benedict XVI, who hailed the shared moral values of the world's major religions.

About 20 religious leaders from the Jewish, Hindu, Islamic and Buddhist communities gathered to meet the Pope and the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney George Pell in the Chapter Hall...

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The Dalai Lama's Buddhist Foes

July 18, 2008

Author: David Van Biema

Source: TIME Magazine

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1824531,00.html

It was not an object lesson in Buddhist dispassion. On Thursday afternoon, following a teaching by the Dalai Lama at New York City's Radio City Music Hall, a group of 500 or more audience members screamed at and spat at a mixed group of about 100 people, both Tibetan and Western, who had been peacefully protesting the high lama. Police...

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Dhamma Day Celebrates Buddhist Teachers

July 16, 2008

Author: Heather Harrison

Source: The Missourian

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2008/07/16/dhamma-day-celebrates-buddhist-teachers/

Friday marks the day that Theravada Buddhists celebrate Dhamma Day, also known as Asalha Puja or Asanha Puja Day. The festival is celebrated on the full moon day of the eighth lunar month. Dhamma Day commemorates the first teaching of the Buddha.

After the...

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Flushing, Just Outside Manhattan, is Proud of Its Religious Diversity

July 15, 2008

Author: Paige Kollock

Source: Voice of America News

http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-07-15-voa27.cfm

The neighborhood of Flushing in New York City borough of Queens, just outside Manhattan, has been a model for religious freedom since the 1600s. Back then, members of The Society of Friends, or Quakers, began arriving in what was then a Dutch colony, fleeing religious persecution in England.

The colony's director-general barred the...

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