Author: Melinda Mawdsley

Source: The Daily Sentinel

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=63,6922,0,0,1,0

Grand Junction’s Ray and Peggy Pilcher invited six monks with the Gaden Shartse Monastery to stay in their home during the monks’ stay in Mesa County.

The monks are on a U.S. tour, raising awareness about Buddhism and donations for construction of a hospital to serve their monastery and other villages in southern...

Author: Philip Fernando

Source: Asian Tribune

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=60,6917,0,0,1,0

Led by the erudite Ven. Maharagama Dharmasiri thera, the Washington Buddhist Vihara is an inspirational mainspring for the Washingtonians bent on seeking solace from their daily chores. They gathered recently in large numbers to participate in their annual food festival to raise funds.

It was a way of showing their gratitude to...

Author: Chris Herlinger

Source: Ecumenical News International

http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=2137

An independent U.S. commission that has government backing has urged President George W. Bush to speak out publicly on religious freedom and human rights when he attends the forthcoming summer Beijing Olympic Games.

Officials of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom issued the call on Wednesday 30 July, and said the...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=45,6914,0,0,1,0

Buddhist leaders on Thursday reacted angrily to President Lee Myung-bak over a controversial police search of the vehicle of their head monk, demanding the Christian leader fire his police chief and stop his "religious partiality."

Lee, an elder in a powerful presbyterian church in central Seoul, has become deeply unpopular...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/07/31/amanpour.buddhas.warriors/index.html

Gedun Gyatso, a 27-year-old Tibetan Buddhist monk, is so devoted to the Dalai Lama that when he was in prison, he placed a picture of him next to his pillow in open defiance of his jailers. The gesture earned Gyatso another month of incarceration on top of the three years he had served for his political...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: International Herald Tribune

Wire Service: AP

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/30/america/NA-US-California-Earthquake-Monks.php

A monk felt the ground shake violently inside a Thai Buddhist temple, and his thoughts calmly drifted toward the birth of Buddha.

For Thawatchai Imprapra, the magnitude-5.4 earthquake that shook Southern...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Novinite.com

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=95646

The Supreme Administrative Prosecutor's Office has submitted to the Court five claims to terminate the activities of five religious organizations in Bulgaria because they have been preaching contrary to the law.

The news was announced by the Prosecutor's Office press-center. The claims have been submitted as result of materials published in Bulgarian media....

Author: Douglas McGill

Source: Twin Cities Daily Planet

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/article/2008/07/29/monk-minnesota-tells-his-epic-transformation-and-many-close-shaves.html

Jim Reynolds began his 40-minute talk to a group of Mayo Clinic physicians and health care workers last week by closing his eyes, putting his palms together and intoning an ancient chant in a dead language....

Author: Cody Glenn

Source: The Daily Journal

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=60,6883,0,0,1,0

Late in the evening, the lines between performers and onlookers vanished at the 63rd annual Obon Memorial Folk Dance Festival as the always-popular audience participation dance got under way.

More than 300 audience members, wearing T-shirts and shorts, left the safety of their lawn chairs Saturday evening to join performers in...

Author: Elizabeth Hamilton

Source: The Hartford Courant

http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-buddhists0719.artjul19,0,3266656.story?page=1

When the Cambodian Buddhist Society lost its plea before the state Supreme Court six months ago to build a temple on a Newtown hilltop, both the residents who lived near the proposed temple and the Buddhists who wanted to build it believed their long battle was over.

But...

Author: Polina Diaz

Source: News-Press.com

http://news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080719/NEWS0111/807190361

Four monks, adorned in orange robes with a hint of yellow, sat on an elevated platform recounting chants and Buddhist customs.

But this is not a country in East Asia - it's right around the corner in North Fort Myers.

Monks at Wat Lao Dhammavanno, a Buddhist temple built in 1999,...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Australian

[theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24039586-2702,00.html]

Leaders of non-Christian faiths have met Pope Benedict XVI, who hailed the shared moral values of the world's major religions.

About 20 religious leaders from the Jewish, Hindu, Islamic and Buddhist communities gathered to meet the Pope and the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney George Pell in the Chapter Hall at St Mary's Cathedral this morning.

The meeting came hours before the main...

Author: David Van Biema

Source: TIME Magazine

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1824531,00.html

It was not an object lesson in Buddhist dispassion. On Thursday afternoon, following a teaching by the Dalai Lama at New York City's Radio City Music Hall, a group of 500 or more audience members screamed at and spat at a mixed group of about 100 people, both Tibetan and Western, who had been peacefully protesting the high lama. Police...

Author: Heather Harrison

Source: The Missourian

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2008/07/16/dhamma-day-celebrates-buddhist-teachers/

Friday marks the day that Theravada Buddhists celebrate Dhamma Day, also known as Asalha Puja or Asanha Puja Day. The festival is celebrated on the full moon day of the eighth lunar month. Dhamma Day commemorates the first teaching of the Buddha.

After the...

Author: Paige Kollock

Source: Voice of America News

[voanews.com/archive/flushing-just-outside-manhattan-proud-its-religious-diversity]

The neighborhood of Flushing in New York City borough of Queens, just outside Manhattan, has been a model for religious freedom since the 1600s. Back then, members of The Society of Friends, or Quakers, began arriving in what was then a Dutch colony, fleeing religious persecution in England.

The colony's director-general barred the Friends from practicing...