Source: The Dallas Morning News

https://archives.dallasnews.com/?pg=1&s=Profile+of+an+Activist+and+Zen+...

Source: The Daily Trojan

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll104/id/187831/rec/28

On February 25, 2004 The Daily Trojan reported that "in the fast-paced college atmosphere...

Source: ABC News 13

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/022304_local_templefire.html

On February 23, 2004 ABC News 13 reported, "Some 600 members of a Laotian Buddhist Temple in northeast Harris County will have to improvise for New Year's celebrations after their temple burned down. Fire investigators are still looking for what caused the fire, but they say they know it was not set intentionally and it wasn't an electrical fire. Only a few monks and members...

Source: The Newtown Bee

http://www.newtownbee.com/News.asp?s=News-2004-02-19-13-54-49p1.htm

On February 23, 2004 the The Newtown Bee reported, "A judge has dismissed an administrative appeal brought by five Boggs Hill Road area residents against the Conservation Commission, over its November 2002 issuance of a wetlands permit to the Cambodian Buddhist Society of Connecticut for the society's controversial proposal to build a 7,600-square-foot Buddhist...

Source: Minnesota Public Radio

http://news.mpr.org/features/2004/02/23_steilm_templefight/

On February 22, 2004 Minnesota Public Radio reported, "Laotians have lived in southwest Minnesota since the 1970's. Most fled their native land after the communist takeover. Bounlome Soumetho is one. The Worthington resident is busy working and raising a family. He's also president of the local Buddhist organization. The group bought a farmhouse near town last year....

Source: Toronto Star

Source: The Toledo Blade

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On February 21, 2004 The Toledo Blade reported, "Bernie Keating grew up in the badlands of South Dakota, riding horses and running away from organized religion. He was, he says, 'a cowboy infidel' raised by 'a lukewarm Catholic father and a fallen-away Methodist mother.' His work as an engineering executive for Owens-Illinois, Inc., took him around the world and expanded his awareness of different cultures and religions...

Source: Los Angeles Times

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-feb-21-me-beliefs21-story.html

On February 21, 2004 the Los Angeles Times reported, "Thich Nhat Hanh is a renowned Vietnamese Zen Buddhist teacher who has written numerous books,...

Source: The Tri-Valley Herald

http://www.trivalleyherald.com/Stories/0,1413,86~10671~1970477,00.html

On February 21, 2004 The Tri-Valley Herald published a profile on the Southern Alameda County Buddhist Church in Union City. Here, "congregants gather every Sunday to practice a unique variety of Buddhism known as Jodo Shinshu Shu. The denomination was named after Shinran Shonin, a 12th-century Buddha from Kyoto, Japan. While most of the congregation...

Source: The ContraCosta Times

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/7993659.htm

On February 20, 2004 The ContraCosta Times reported, "The city has finally found a resting place for the remains of nearly 100 Gold Rush-era San Franciscans unearthed three years ago during construction of the Asian Art Museum. Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, a small city with 17 cemeteries just south of San Francisco, has offered to take the remains of 97 men, women and...

Source: The Mercury News

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/7998091.htm

On February 20, 2004 The Mercury News reported, "San Jose fire officials are looking into whether Wednesday's fire at a Buddhist temple -- already deemed arson -- was also a hate crime.

Investigators brought in specially trained dogs to examine the scene at Pao-Hua Buddhist Temple on McKee Road, and found evidence that a flammable liquid was used to set...

Source: KeralaNext.com

http://www.keralanext.com/news/index.asp?id=26983

On February 18, 2004 KeralaNext.com ran an Indo-Asian News Service article that reported, "Patna, Buddhist monks have reiterated their demand that the management of the Mahabodhi Temple, at Buddhism's birthplace in the Bihar town of Bodh Gaya, be handed over to them. 'The government should first hand over the management to us,' said a senior monk, Priya Pal. This time, the claim has come when...

Source: Morecambe Today

Source: The Hindu

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/00318191560.htm

On February 18, 2004 The Hindu reported, "Sri Lanka's Buddhist monks, who won a place in history by entering an all-clergy list of candidates of a political party, today said they hoped to become the country's new king-makers by displacing Tamils. 'With the kind of numbers of Buddhists in the country, we should at least in theory have the possibility of becoming the main decisive power,'...

Source: The New York Times