Author: Peter Smith

Source: The Courier-Journal

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090531/NEWS01/905310388/1008/Buddhists+sow+seeds+with+youth+to+protect+faith+in+U.S.

As ceiling fans beat back the humid air, more than 150 people crowded in and around a temple on a remote Southern Indiana hillside last Sunday, marking the birth of their religion's founder.

"An,...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: American Buddhist Net

http://www.americanbuddhist.net/michigan-buddhist-groups-helped-plant-12-000-trees

Members of a Zen Buddhist temple are among two northern Michigan Buddhist communities that joined 100 churches and temples in planting 12,000 trees across the Upper Peninsula in early May during the 2009 interfaith EarthKeeper Tree Project.

Volunteers planted the 12,000 trees by...

Author: Tiffany Fox

Source: The West Australian

http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=77&ContentID=144709

The golden statue gracing a new Tibetan Buddhist temple in the Swan Valley took Indian craftsmen more than four years to complete and its unveiling next week will mark the realisation of a 30-year dream.

For Tibetan Buddhist Society WA director Les Sheehy and his wife Margaret the temple’s completion marks...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Copenhagen Post

http://www.cphpost.dk/news/community/45789-an-unusual-place-to-find-a-thai-temple.html

It may come as a surprise to most people that there is a Thai temple - or wat - located in Denmark. Watpa Copenhagen, situated in a quiet suburban street in the sleepy village of Dragør, on Amager, is unknown to most. The Copenhagen Post paid a visit to the Sunnataram Copenhagen...

Author: Chris Reagle

Source: Wicked Local Marion

http://www.wickedlocal.com/marion/fun/entertainment/arts/x702315485/Tibetan-monks-bring-culture-understanding-to-the-area

If you are an early riser, you may get a glimpse of something you don’t often see in this quaint seaside village. Twelve monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery of India will be in the area for four days...

Author: Denis D. Gray

Source: USA Today

Wire Service: AP

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-05-23-buddhist-muslim_N.htm

The young Muslim man says he watched helplessly as soldiers broke his father's bones and punctured his lungs with vicious kicks. After seven hours of relentless torture the Muslim religious leader died cradled in his lap.

In a nearby village, a 7-year-old Buddhist...

Author: Roy York

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Lexington Herald-Leader

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=61,8204,0,0,1,0

In an office at The University Press of Kentucky, one would never expect to find the birthplace of a Buddhist community. But in the cluttered room littered with prayer flags and adorned with stunning pictures of Tibetan mountains and monasteries, Richard Farkas eases into his chair and speaks easily about his faith....

Author: Ann Rodgers

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=60,8188,0,0,1,0

Leaders of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh have unanimously voted against permitting a diocese in Michigan to consecrate a bishop who is also a practicing Zen Buddhist.

A spokesman for the diocese said the decision was not based on Bishop-elect Kevin Thew Forrester's Zen practices, but on changes he...

Author: Ann Rodgers

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09136/970619-455.stm

Buddhists from throughout the region will gather tomorrow in Shadyside to celebrate the life of Siddhartha Gautama and meditate for world peace.

This is the first time local Buddhists from disparate traditions have gathered for a holiday, in this case for Vesak, which commemorates the life, enlightenment and death of the founder of their...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: UCA News

Religious harmony prevailed in a farming village in central Sri Lanka as Catholics and Buddhists joined hands to celebrate the Buddhist festival of Vesak (Vesakh).

Devotees of both faiths offered meals and refreshments at a dansala (alms-giving center) in Hammalawa village on May 9, as thousands of Buddhists flocked to temples and thronged village streets decorated with lights, lanterns and religious flags.

Hammalawa is a sub-parish of Kuliyapitya parish in...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Moscow News

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=3,8174,0,0,1,0

Members of a regional Buddhist council in Russia’s North Caucuses, have asked Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to help them secure a visit by the Dalai-Lama to the republic, Russian website Gazeta.ru reports.

“A visit by the spiritual leader of all the Buddhists in the world would be the best present to...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Sinhalaya News

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=3,8175,0,0,1,0

Suspected members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in London during the small hours of May 13 attacked Kingsbury Sri Saddhatissa International Buddhist Center in London and smashed up seven windows.

Venerable Wanduramba kassapa , an eyewitness at the crime scene said , “About seven males used...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Daily Mirror

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=3,8167,0,0,1,0

Sri Lankas main Buddhist temple in Paris, France was attacked by suspected LTTE supporters on Sunday evening, said a spokesman from the foreign ministry.

He said a group of seven masked men had arrived at around 7.00 pm on Sunday and smashed the windows of the temple. The Chief Monk of the temple, the Ven....

Author: George P. Hassett

Source: Wicked Local Cambridge

http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x1194168204/Mothers-honored-with-Buddha-in-Central-Square

Tibetan monks and Cambridge mothers walked side by side through Central Square on Sunday to celebrate motherhood and Buddha's birthday. It was the first time the Greater Boston Buddhist Cultural Center, based in Cambridge, celebrated the birth of...

Author: Kanglei Wang

Source: The Yale Globalist

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=60,8159,0,0,1,0

Nine years ago, Homeig Wu hesitated when asked if she had a religion. She had a fleeting relationship with Buddhism, making only occasional donations and trips to her local temple to “bai bai” — a light-hearted religious practice that more devout Buddhists see as only brushing the surface of spirituality.

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