Author: Staff Writer

Source: MCOT News

http://etna.mcot.net/query.php?nid=30224

BANGKOK, June 29 (TNA) – Buddhist monks and laypeople ended their protest outside Parliament on Friday after staging a rally and hunger strike there for several weeks, demanding that the drafters of the new constitution officially recognise Buddhism as Thailand's religion in the charter.

While the Constitution Drafting Assembly (CDA) is considering the article,...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: MongoliaWeb

http://www.mongolia-web.com/content/view/1116/2/

A United States nurse is organizing training session in traditional Buddhist medical practices for Mongolian doctors.

Sas Carey, a nurse from Middlebury, Vermont, made her first visit to [Mongolia] in the mid-1990’s. While in Ulaanbaatur, she persuaded Dr. Boldsaikhan, who she met at the Institute of Traditional Medicine, to take her on as a...

Author: AMY REININK

Source: The Buddhist Channel

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=61,4390,0,0,1,0

EARLETON, Florida (USA) -- Amid fields of organic blueberries and acres of lakefront cypress groves, a group of Gainesville Buddhists is building its future.

Long-term plans call for a monastery, cultural center, nature preserve and retreat for one of the highest ranking Buddhists in the world to be built on a 143-acre...

Author: Ramani D.Wickramaratne

Source: The Buddhist Channel/The Asian Tribune

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=3,4369,0,0,1,0

Berlin, Germany -- 50 years is a long time and it is highly commendable, that Das Buddhistische Haus (The Berlin Vihare) has withstood the passage of time and the challenges and continued to serve the noble ideals of the “visionaries” who stepped in to fill a void, a void of spirituality in the...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=3,4375,0,0,1,0

London, UK -- The official opening of the Buddha Vihara Temple at Alrewas Road, Kings Bromley, Burton on Trent Staffs DE13 7HR will take place on Saturday 30th June at 2pm.

The ceremony will be attended by a broad cross section of dignitaries and representatives of many organisations together with members of the Thai Sangha (...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Reuters

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BANGKOK, June 19 (Reuters) - Suspected Muslim separatist rebels killed four people, including a district chief and an army colonel, in Thailand's rebellious Muslim south, police said on Tuesday.

One soldier was killed and two wounded late on Monday as they clashed with militants who set fire to a school in Pattani, one of three southernmost Thai provinces where more than 2,300 people have been...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=49,4335,0,0,1,0

The Dalai Lama has just completed a tour of Australia, boosting what is the country's fastest-growing religion. Australia has more Buddhists per capita than anywhere else in the Western world. From Sydney, Phil Mercer reports on how this religion has moved beyond Asian immigrant communities and into the mainstream.

Tibetan...

Author: Chakmo Tso, translated by Karma Dorjee

Source: NewsReleaseWire.com

http://www.expertclick.com/NewsReleaseWire/default.cfm?Action=ReleaseDetail&ID=16907

WASHINGTON—The head of a large Buddhist monastery in Chinese-run Tibet has been forced to step down after he refused to sign documents condemning the Dalai Lama, the monk and a local official have told Radio Free Asia (RFA).

“I spoke out...

Source: The Buddhist Channel

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=62,4301,0,0,1,0

Fort Wayne, Indiana (USA) -- A Wesak Festival was held on May 19 at the Indiana Buddhist Temple in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA.

Among the participants were members of both Buddhist and non-Buddhist communities - Sri Lankans, Americans, Vietnamese, Burmese, Indians, Indonesians, and neighbors of the Temple on Webster Street in Fort Wayne.

Author: Jeff Franks

Source: The Star

Wire Service: Reuters

Author: Reuters

Source: The New York Times

Wire Service: Reuters

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-korea-north-temple.html

KAESONG, North Korea (Reuters) - In a rare nod to religion, communist North Korea has welcomed 500 Buddhist monks and followers from the South to a temple dating from the 11th century when Kaesong was capital of a unified peninsula.

The visit...

Author: Khalid Moss

Source: Dayton Daily News

http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2007/06/06/DDN060607temple.html

KETTERING — — A building permit has been issued to members of Shinnyo-en to build a Buddhist temple at 5727 Bigger Road, the city's chief building official said.

Shinnyo-en is a lay Buddhist organization serving the needs of Shinnyo-en followers and...

Author: Giancarlo Rinaldi

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/south_of_scotland/6723459.stm

Turn a corner on a rural road in Dumfries and Galloway and what might you expect to find?

Some sheep, perhaps, or a wind turbine or two - but probably not an enormous development for Buddhist study.

Yet the Samye Ling Tibetan centre and monastery at Eskdalemuir has become an integral part of...

Source: Phayul.com

Author: Venice Buhain

Source: The Buddhist Channel

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=65,4252,0,0,1,0

Olympia, WA (USA) -- A patchwork of colors, styles and cultures at Saint Martin’s Pavilion on Sunday marked the 2,551st anniversary of the birth of the Buddha.

It was the first time that the South Sound Buddhist temples and meditation groups got together to celebrate the birthday of Siddhartha Gautama, whose teachings...