Author: Bridget Gutierrez

Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2006/12/21/1222metbible.html

Georgia public high schools may offer classes on the Bible next fall, but they'll get few guidelines from the state on how to ensure their lessons do not promote religion.

A new law requires the State Board of Education to create two optional, non-devotional classes on the...

Author: Rhiannon Sims

Source: Connection Newspapers

Author: Peter Schurmann

Source: New America Media

http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=fbc4cf0b0798ce16e29c1296bd5e11ff

Editor’s Note: The rebuilding of two colossal Buddhas in Afghanistan’s Pamir Valley destroyed by the Taliban is a symbolic first step in piecing back the country’s shattered past and looking toward a better future, writes commentator Peter...

Source: Daily India/Indo Asian News Service

http://www.dailyindia.com/show/93383.php/Meditation-classes-help-Tihar-inmates

New Delhi-- After a troubled past, inmates of Tihar Jail here have decided to reform themselves as well as change other jailbirds' lives through Vipassana, Buddhist way of meditation.

'We have around 500 inmates going through 10 different meditation courses of Vipassana in the jail,' said Sunil Gupta, law officer...

Author: JEFF BRUMLEY

Source: Jacksonville Times-Union

http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/120306/met_6593716.shtml

While thousands of Wake Forest and Georgia Tech faithful watched their teams play at Alltel Stadium on Saturday, the spiritually curious joined hundreds of Buddhists from the region at a Buddhist temple to view, venerate and be blessed by relics of Gautama Buddha.

That's the historical Buddha, whose...

Author: Megan Tench

Source: The Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/other/articles/2006/12/03/after_buddhist_dies_legal_battle_continues/

The family of 72-year-old Cho Fook Cheng of Brookline knew there was no chance that he would ever wake up again.

Last week, doctors declared Cheng, a grandfather of seven who suffered cardiac arrest the day after Thanksgiving, brain-...

Author: Joe Xia and Crystal Feng, Translation by Eugenia C

Source: Sing Tao Daily/New American Media

http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=b8bd81f8d45fca9cd0197912ef7aa8da

NEW YORK -- The suicide of a Shaolin temple monk has shocked the Chinese community in New York, who are now questioning the treatment of monks by their temples.

Heng Shan, a 27-year-...

Author: Dianne Wiebe

Source: Daily Freeman

Source: Bangkock Post

http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=114474

More than 1,000 Thai Buddhists in southern provinces today joined in a mass merit-making ceremony held to boost the morale of local Buddhist monks and people in the country's far South affected by the growing insurgency and to pray for the restoration of peace in the region.

Some 500 Buddhist monks from 266 temples in Songkhla, Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat were...

Author: John Tunison

Source: Muskegon Chronicle

Author: Peter Calder

Source: New Zealand Herald

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/winning-hearts-in-land-of-genghis/2JAGSXRQS6T4LLKQ6TBSZHPVFM/

The man on the stage is the...

Source: The Buddhist Channel

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=53,3470,0,0,1,0

Phnom Penh, Cambodia -- Cambodian Buddhist monks have the right to vote in upcoming commune and national elections, acting head of state Chea Sim told a Buddhist congress in the capital Wednesday. His statement threatens to reignite a public debate which flared before the 2003 general elections when Supreme Patriarch of Cambodian Buddhists and leader of the Mahanikaya Buddhist sect...

Original Source: The Observer-Reporter. Genaro C. Armas

Wire Service: AP

https://www.poconorecord.com/article/20061129/news/611290302?template=ampart

YEAGERTOWN -- Laura Tate's new next-door neighbors wore bright robes...

Author: Steve Grant

Source: KY3-News

http://www.ky3.com/news/4715926.html

Next year, the Dalai Lama will receive this nation's highest civilian honor, the Congressional Gold Medal. If that seems odd, you might not know that Buddhism is the fourth largest religion in the United States. Some say the Tibetan leader's charisma, and Buddhism’s eastern ethics and practical psychology are driving its growth, even in the Ozarks.

Colored and consecrated...

Author: Maria Sudekum Fisher

Source: The Topeka Capital-Journal

Wire Service: AP

http://www.cjonline.com/stories/112606/kan_buddhist.shtml

LANSING -- Lama Chuck Stanford started visiting a small group of Buddhist inmates in Kansas about six years ago.

"Then word got around that I was doing this," Stanford says, "and I started getting calls from prison chaplains around here telling me they had Buddhist...