Source: The San Francisco Chronicle

On July 21, 2000, The San Francisco Chronicle published the article "Sonoma Buddhists Celebrate Heritage Through Food and Dance."

Source: Los Angeles Times

On July 3, 2000, the Los Angeles Times published an article on a new free clinic in Panorama City, California. The Buddhist Tzu-Chi Free Clinic, located on Blythe Street, provides free medical services to members of the community who previously were unable to afford basic medical care such as check-ups and dental visits. Maritza de Artan, director of the Immaculate Heart Community Blythe Street, a community organization, had been aware that many members of her community were unable to receive medical care, and after a "few...

Source: Los Angeles Times

On June 29, 2000, the Los Angeles Times published an article about the Dalai Lama's recent visit to Cal State Fullerton. On Wednesday, June 28th, His Holiness the Dalai Lama spoke to more than 1100 people about the values of love and compassion. During the speech entitled "Cherishing Harmony With Diversity: Education in the New Millennium," the spiritual leader emphasized "embracing dialogue, shunning violence and nurturing the concept of community in cities and villages around the globe." His message was a powerful one for...

Source: The New York Times

On June 10, 2000, The New York Times reported that the 41st Sakya Trizin, supreme head of one of Tibetan Buddhism's four traditions, has embarked on a three-month teaching visit to the United States and Canada. The Sakya Trizin is second only to the Dalai Lama in importance to the Tibetan people and this is the first time in a decade that Trizin has visited the United States. He is making this trip to meet and encourage people involved in Sakya Buddhist practice. Asked about how one should begin a serious study of Buddhism,...

Source: Los Angeles Times

On May 27, 2000 the Los Angeles Times ran an article about Dagmola Jamyang Sakya, one of Tibetan Buddhism's rare women teachers, who teaches about "Tara, the Great Wisdom Mother and female emanation of the Buddha of Compassion," to audiences in Los Angeles and in Seattle, where she has set up the Sakya Monastery. As a girl, she studied in an otherwise all-male Buddhist monastery, then fled Chinese persecution in Tibet, became a refuge in India, and finally moved to Seattle in 1961. She began teaching in 1985, after years of...

Source: Star Tribune

On May 13, 2000, the Star Tribune reported on the Sikh commemoration of "the Martyrdom Day of Guru Arjan Dev, the fifth guru in Sikhism. He assembled the Adi Granth and built the famous Golden Temple at Amritsar." The article also noted that "Thursday begins the Buddhist celebration of Visakha Puja Day, or the full moon day of the sixth lunar month. Buddhists of the southern tradition celebrate this as the day Buddha was born, attained enlightenment and died."

Source: The New York Times

On April 29, 2000, The New York Times published an article on the Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights, California, the largest Buddhist monastery in the United States. Hsi Lai Temple has been only minimally distracted from its goal of promoting spiritual education and culture by the negative publicity due to illegal contributions to the Democratic National Committee. The Venerable Man Yee, one of the nuns at the temple, stated: "Our responsibility is to the dharma...That is the main purpose of our Master Hsing Yun, to...

Source: St. Petersburg Times

On April 19, 2000, the St. Petersburg Times published an article entitled, "Ceremonies Welcome Laotian New Year."

Source: Los Angeles Times

On April 17, 2000, the Los Angeles Times reported that more than 5,000 Vietnamese gathered Sunday, April 16th at Santa Ana College in Southern California to celebrate the 2,544th anniversary of the Buddha's birth. The celebration, which is now in its sixth year at Santa Ana, was one of the largest in Southern California, with more than 100 Buddhist monks and nuns from as far away as Canada attending the event.

Source: The Washington Post

On April 16, 2000, The Washington Post published an article entitled, "The Buddha From Poolesville."

Source: Los Angeles Times

On April 16, 2000, the Los Angeles Times reported that the Shinnyo-en temple in Yorba Linda, California hosted the first Saito Homa fire ritual in the United States on Sunday, April 16th. Temple official Naruhiko Yoshida stated: "It is a great opportunity for people who live here to be a part of this...It is wonderful to see people from this country, Europe and Japan, from all over the world, harmonizing in front of Buddha." Dating back to the 9th century, Saito Homa is a fire ritual and prayer for world peace that is conducted...

Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

On April 1, 2000, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the Mid-America Buddhist Association's 60-acre retreat center will place a 10-foot-tall brass statue of the Buddha on their property on a hill along Missouri Highway 94 in Augusta, MO. The statue will be dedicated on May 21, 2000 during the Buddha's birthday celebration and many of the more than 1,300 Buddhist devotees in the St. Louis area are expected to attend. Members of region's eight Buddhist organizations are contributing to the statue, which was molded in...

Source: Los Angeles Times

On April 1, 2000, the Los Angeles Times reported that the largest temple in the West, Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple in Hacienda Heights, California, will begin a week-long celebration of the Buddha's birthday starting this Sunday, April 2nd, including the creation of an artistic rendering in colored chalk of the "Buddha Universe" on the temple's courtyard.

Source: The Denver Post

On March 19, 2000,The Denver Post reported on the massive expansion of the Rocky Mountain Shambhala Center, which will develop the center into a "top flight spiritual retreat that will draw faithful Buddhists and business executives alike." The centerpiece of the renovations is a temple called the Great Stupa of Dharmakaya which will be open to the public. It will be the largest and most intricate stupa in the United States. "The structure, which represents the crowned Buddha seated in meditation, now needs its finishing touches. An...

Source: The Detroit News

On March 12, 2000, The Detroit News published an article entitled, "Divine, Carnal Collide on Vegas Strip."