Every 12 years, the Nepali deity goes for a chariot ride so the faithful can pay homage and pray for a good harvest. He ventured out in April, ran into an earthquake and took a very long break.

Source: The Red God Had The Earthquake Blues — But Now He's On A Roll! : Goats and Soda : NPR

For a small cadre of ministers, environmentalism is about more than pollution and global warming; it’s about links between consumption patterns and inequality.

Source: Young Methodists Plant Churches With Environmental Gospel - The New York Times

A vast archaeological site sits atop one of the world's biggest untapped copper deposits. Afghanistan must decide which resource will be a greater boon.

Source: What's Better For Afghanistan's Future: Buddha Tours Or A Copper Mine? : Goats and Soda : NPR

"I’ve been a Buddhist for a number of years, and I chant every day, and one of the things that I strongly believe in is that moment of silence, of reflection, for everybody to sit down and be still for a second." More →

Source: Terence Blanchard on "This Time We're Living In" | August 28, 2015 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS

YANGON (Reuters) Myanmar's Committee for the Protection of Race and Religion has pushed through four laws that critics say effectively legalize discrimination against women and the country's minority Muslims ahead of the country's first free vote in 25 years.

Source: Anti-Muslim Buddhist group moves toward Myanmar's mainstream - Religion News Service

FRED DE SAM LAZARO, correspondent: In just the past few weeks, he’s appeared at a music festival in England, a presidential library in Houston, and a stadium near Los Angeles. There is perhaps no world figure today with a more diverse base of fans and well-wishers.(speaking to His Holiness the Dalai Lama): Why are you so popular globally? Why are you a rock star?HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA: I don’t know. I never pay attention about that, why people praise me.DE SAM LAZARO: And even as he celebrated his 80th birthday, he said he’s not concerned about another matter that’s on many...

At Hamilton, research into how the city of Utica and its flourishing refugee population affect one another has been going on for over a decade. This summer Shannon Boley ’17 and Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies Brent Plate are stu

Source: Shannon Boley ’17 Examines Religious Lives of Utica Refugees - Hamilton College

Incense drifting through ancient cedars. Saffron-robed monks, limbs a blur of movement, making quick work of imagined enemies. The boing of a giant bronze bell calling the faithful to prayer.

Youth seen as more open-minded; Islam and Christianity are China's fastest growing faiths

The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/22/world/asia/chinese-police-are-said-to-seize-ashes-of-tibetan-monk-tenzin-delek-rinpoche.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

National Public Radio

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/07/23/425386811/detoxing-the-buddhist-way-nuns-preserve-art-of-korean-temple-food

The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/17/world/asia/china-cremates-body-of-revered-tibetan-monk-tenzin-delek-rinpoche.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&_r=0

The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/14/world/asia/tenzin-delek-rinpoche-tibetan-religious-leader-dies-in-chinese-custody.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Religion News Service

http://www.religionnews.com/2015/07/09/80-dalai-lama-just-getting-started/