Author: Staff Writer

Source: NPR

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112743568&ft=1&f=1016

Thomas Dyer is preparing to deploy with the Tennessean National Guardsman as the Army's first Buddhist chaplain. Dyer, a former Southern Baptist minister, says he was drawn to Buddhism through meditation and explains how he will apply the principles of his faith as a spiritual counselor for the troops.

Author: Ari Cohn

Source: The Buddhist Channel/East Valley Tribune

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=64,8528,0,0,1,0

A Vietnamese Buddhist temple nestled in a north Chandler neighborhood received a permit from the City Council Thursday to resume Sunday worship services. The city had barred the temple — in a single-family home at 285 N. Comanche Drive in a residential neighborhood near Alma School Road and Chandler...

Author: Diane Fowler

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Cibola Beacon

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=61,8535,0,0,1,0

The road is an unpaved track through Ponderosa pines leading to a mountain meadow where a magnificent new structure gleams in the sunlight. The building is the Zuni Mountain Stupa (temple), a sacred monument and reliquary that represents the Buddha's wisdom and compassion.

In Tibet and all Buddhist countries, the...

Author: Diane Smith

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Star-tTelegram.com

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=61,8512,0,0,1,0

Wat Lao Thepnimith looks like a postcard from Southeast Asia planted in a suburban patch of houses nestled in northwest Fort Worth.

The Buddhist campus is the heart of a Lao-American Buddhist community that began resettling in North Texas in the mid-1970s. Many of the estimated 11,000 members are refugees of...

Author: Thomas Fuller

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/world/asia/01iht-thai.html

The Thai soldiers patrolling this hamlet racked by insurgent violence measure their progress modestly: two years ago, villagers closed their shutters and refused to greet them. Now most residents peer out of their wood-frame houses and offer strained smiles.

“The local people have started to open their hearts,”...

Source: The Buddhist Channel/The Fresno Bee

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=65,8487,0,0,1,0

There’s a sense of excitement in the Buddhist community over the new Family Dharma Center taking shape on East Alluvial Avenue in Clovis. It’s been a long time coming for Fresno Buddhist Temple, a Kern Street fixture since 1902, whose members have wanted to move to the area where many of their young families live. Plans are for a new temple with...

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Torstar News Service

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=66,8492,0,0,1,0

The arsonists crept up to the Buddhist temple in Scarborough around 4 a.m., doused a side door in flammable liquid, then set the immense wooden structure alight.

They ran around back and tried to torch the part of the temple that housed the library. But they inadvertently triggered a motion sensor alarm, dropped bottles of flammable liquid, and fled...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel/The Toronto Star

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=66,8492,0,0,1,0

The arsonists crept up to the Buddhist temple in Scarborough around 4 a.m., doused a side door in flammable liquid, then set the immense wooden structure alight.

They ran around back and tried to torch the part of the temple that housed the library. But they inadvertently triggered a motion sensor alarm,...

Author: Arkar Moe

Source: The Buddhist Channel/The Irrawaddy

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=82,8493,0,0,1,0

The Burmese-language kyaymon Web site claimed that the International Burmese Monks’ Organization [commonly known as “Sasana Moli”] and the Sangha League (Myanmar) are trying to launch another monks’ boycott in Burma similar to the 2007 Saffron Revolution when Buddhist monks were instrumental in...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Zee News

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=3,8478,0,0,1,0

President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday vowed to support the Russian Buddhists in reviving their traditions and spreading the preaching of Lord Buddha among its followers.

Medvedev, who became the second head of state in the country's history to visit the main Buddhist Ivolga Monastery in Siberian republic of Buryatia, was...

Author: Edythe Jensen

Source: The Arizona Republic/The Buddhist Channel

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=64,8455,0,0,1,0

A north Chandler house that's been used as a Buddhist temple for three years needs city council approval to continue as a place of worship.

That's because some neighbors near the home at 285 N. Comanche Drive complained about traffic and rows of cars parked on residential streets south west of Alma School...