Author: Sarah Maslin Nir

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/realestate/08cov.html?emc=eta1

Apartment hunters always have a wish list of things that will help them call a new place home — doormen, laundry rooms, southern exposures.

But for some people, faith guides real estate choices. Instead of bay windows and an in-house gym, their must-have may be a kosher kitchen, a short walk to church, room...

Author: John Bermingham

Source: The Buddhist Channel/The Province

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=66,9401,0,0,1,0

More than 100,000 people are expected to converge Sunday on an Aldergrove Buddhist monastery for a glimpse of the world’s largest jade Buddha statue.

Author: Barb Ickes

Source: The Buddhist Channel/The Quad-Cities Times

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=62,9381,0,0,1,0

For the second time this month, a Buddhist temple in Davenport has been targeted by vandals.

This time, someone threw eggs at the Kim Cang Temple, where a 12-foot marble statue of Lady Buddha was attacked July 4. The hands on the religious symbol, which are four inches in diameter, were broken off the statue...

Author: Sophie Stid

Source: Palo Alto Online

http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=17714

The Palo Alto Buddhist Temple will celebrate the Obon Festival for the 62nd time this weekend.

"Obon is a Buddhist and Japanese tradition; a once-a-year festival to honor our ancestors in a very positive and festive manner," event co-chair Shiz Kobara said.

Author: Sam Cooper

Source: The Buddhist Channel/The Province

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=66,9374,0,0,1,0

Struck by the light reflected from the four-metre-high, gold-plated Shakyamuni Buddha, one might think they were resting in an isolated shrine in the hills of Nepal.

Actually, it's the new Thrangu Monastery in Richmond, the first of its kind outside Asia, according to its builders.

Author: Julia Love

Source: The Los Angeles Times

Author: Louisa Lim

Source: NPR

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128691021

Four years ago, eight senior monks, clad in scarlet-and-saffron-robes, filed in front of a golden Buddha and began chanting on stage in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou. It marked an important turning point in China's attitude toward religion.

This was the first World Buddhist Forum, attended by more than 1,000 monks, and held in...

Author: Cathy Hayes

Source: Irish Central

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Irelands-first-Buddhist-temple-to-be-built-99008024.html

It has been announced that the Dzogchan Beara retreat centre will build a copper-domed traditional Tibetan Buddhist temple on the centre’s land.

The 14.5 meter tall temple will perch, by the retreat center, on top of the cliffs at Garranes, near Allihies, west ...

Author: Alex Harcharek

Source: The Daily Journal

http://www.thedailyjournal.com/article/20100719/NEWS01/7190319/1002/rss

Traditional Japanese folk dancing and taiko drumming captivated a large crowd that gathered here for an afternoon of dramatic presentations and Japanese heritage at the 65th annual Obon Festival at Seabrook Buddhist Temple. The free cultural celebration returned Saturday, uniting the local temple with Buddhist...

Author: Louisa Lim

Source: NPR

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128544048

Alongside China's astonishing economic boom, an almost unnoticed religious boom has quietly been taking place.

In the country's first major survey on religious beliefs, conducted in 2006, 31.4 percent of about 4,500 people questioned described themselves as religious. That amounts to more than 300 million religious believers, an...

Author: Anne Kallas

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Ventura County Star

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=65,9338,0,0,1,0

Smoke wafting from racks of beef teriyaki Saturday announced the 55th Obon Festival, sponsored by and held at Oxnard Buddhist Temple, well before visitors reached the site where music, martial arts demonstrations, bonsai, dance and an abundance of food awaited. Rance Kudo, co-treasurer and spokesman for the...

Author: Yonat Shimron

Source: The Buddhist Channel/News...

Author: Natacha Butler

Source: Buddhist Channel/Global Post

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=9,9343,0,0,1,0

The Dalai Lama's not getting any younger. He turned 75 on Tuesday and by all accounts he's in good health. But, inevitably, the question of who will succeed one of the world's most revered spiritual leaders looms large.

Increasingly, the spotlight has been turned to the Karmapa Lama. He is close to the Dalai Lama and...

Author: Jamie Kelly

Source: Buddhist Channel/The Missoulian

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=63,9330,0,0,1,0

One day soon, the Dalai Lama will bless the 1,000 Buddhas currently being forged for the Ewam Buddhist Center near Arlee.

But on Tuesday evening, two very special guests of the center joined nearly 100 western Montanans - many of them Buddhist, some not - to give their birthday blessings to the Tibetan spiritual...

Author: Myra Ruiz

Source: Buddhist Channel/WYFF News 4

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=61,9323,0,0,1,0

Hundreds of Buddhist devotees gathered at a rural spot in Spartanburg County on Saturday for the dedication ceremony of a new pilgrimage site.

Members of the Cambodian community completed construction last week on a three-story Buddhist shrine, called a stupa. It's located beside the Wat Sao Sokh San Temple at 841 Shiloh...