Source: USA Today

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-04-03-china-dalai-lama_x.htm

On April 3, 2006 USA Today reported, "China suggested Monday that it was open to a visit from the Dalai Lama and to establishing ties with the Vatican. The Dalai Lama, exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, announced last month that he hoped to travel to China on a pilgrimage. He said envoys had conveyed his message to officials in Beijing. He has repeatedly...

Source: The Fresno Bee

http://www.fresnobee.com/local/religion/story/12004442p-12763817c.html

On April 1, 2006 The Fresno Bee reported, "In the United States, Buddha's birthday is a major occasion for Buddhists, who at 1.5 million worshippers represent the country's fourth-largest religion. Denominations such as Jodo Shinshu, which is practiced at Fresno Betsuin Buddhist Temple and member temples such as Clovis Buddhist Temple, hold a special service...

Source: BreitBart.com

Wire Service: AFP

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/03/31/060401035006.59wi4hgk.html

On March 31, 2006 Agence France-Presse reported, "The Dalai Lama says that were Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden killed that hatred would cause another 10 like him to spring up, in an interview with a British newspaper. The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader told The Daily Telegraph that terrorists should be treated...

Source: International Herald Tribune

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/31/arts/design/artistic-treasures-take-manhattan-...

Source: University of Chicago Chronicle

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/060330/sanctuary.shtml

On March 30, 2006 the University of Chicago Chronicle reported, "To meet the needs of a community becoming increasingly diverse and mirroring the religious complexion of the world, the underground floor of [Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, built on the University's campus in 1928] has been transformed from a basement into the new Interreligious Center... The new space provides a...

Source: The Asahi Shimbun

http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200603270106.html

On March 27, 2006 The Asahi Shimbun reported, "According to [Noriyuki] Ueda, [a cultural anthropologist and associate professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology] there are about 80,000 temples around the nation. But a shortage of priest successors to keep them in business has become an increasingly serious problem. A survey by one Buddhist sect found that 35 percent of...

Source: The Argus

http://www.insidebayarea.com/argus/localnews/ci_3634817

On March 24, 2006 The Argus reported, "Members of the California Board of Education began meetings with publishers Thursday for final editing sessions of sixth-grade history textbooks. The Sacramento meeting comes despite lawsuits filed against the state by two Hindu groups, who challenge the way Hinduism is presented in the books and who say they take issue with the way the state went about...

Source: Athens News. Tim Pappa

On March 23, 2006 the Athens News reported, "Tim Pappa, 23, an Ohio University graduate student in the Southeast Asia Studies Department, is in Indonesia researching communication of progressive Islamic ideas among Islamic boarding school communities. He is filing a series of dispatches about his experiences for The NEWS. He writes, '[Marzuki] Rais [the Islam & Democracy program manager at Fahmina Institute, a Cirebon-based Muslim NGO that promotes inclusive, democratic environments through...

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4824530.stm

On March 20, 2006 BBC News reported, "A missing Nepalese teenager popularly known as 'Buddha Boy' reappeared briefly on Sunday, his followers say. The committee managing the meditation site of Ram Bomjan, 16, released video of its members purportedly meeting the boy near his village in southern Nepal. The boy's meditation and apparent 10-month fast attracted global attention before he vanished...

Source: Iowa City Press-Citizen

http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060320/NEWS01/603200321/1079

On March 20, 2006 the Iowa City Press-Citizen reported, "Jean Robinson sat in the lotus position on a low couch in the living room of her apartment, her hands on her knees. Her eyes closed, she concentrated on her breathing as she meditated. On occasion, she quietly chanted a mantra in Tibetan, rolling a mala, or set...

Source: Korea Times

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/culture/200603/kt2006032017013111700.htm

On March 20, 2006 the Korea Times reported, "Exhibiting Buddhist statues, Dharma drawings, rosary beads, clerical robes, tea ceremony utensils and other sacred objects, a Buddhist industry fair will take place at the Seoul Trade Exhibition Center in southern Seoul from Thursday for a four-day run. Hosted by Buddhist radio broadcaster BBS, the fair will be...

Source: The Times

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,173-2088403,00.html

On March 16, 2006 The Times reported, "Thailand sank deeper into political crisis yesterday after a party candidate suddenly abandoned politics to become a Buddhist monk. The Thai election commission said that a snap election called by Thaksin Shinawatra, the embattled Prime Minister, may not take place because it was unlikely to return the required number of elected MPs. The...

Source: Asia Times Online

http://atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/HC15Ae02.html

On March 15, 2006 the Asia Times Online reported, "Add Thailand's Muslim minority to the growing list of Thais who believe a change in government would likely be in their best interest. That's what many Thai Muslims in the country's conflict-ravaged southernmost provinces of Pattani, Narathiwat and Yala are hoping for - though few say so openly for fear of landing on a government enemies...

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4797064.stm

On March 11, 2006 BBC News reported, "A 16-year-old boy who had been meditating and fasting in a Nepal forest for 10 months has been missing since Saturday morning, police say. Locals and police searched the area in the southern district of Bara but have not been able to locate him so far. Police have rejected reports that the young boy, popularly known as 'Little Buddha', may have been abducted. His...

Source: Beliefnet

Wire Service: AP

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/187/story_18730_1.html

On March 10, 2006 the Associated Press reported, "The Dalai Lama said Friday that he has asked China to let him to visit the country for the first time since he fled Tibet nearly a half-century ago. His comments came in an address to thousands of followers on the anniversary of the 1959 uprising in Tibet against Chinese rule, which marked the...