Author: Rob Cameron

Source: Radio Prague

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=3,7058,0,0,1,0

According to a report in Monday’s edition of Právo newspaper, Prague’s Vietnamese community plans to build a Buddhist temple in the suburb of Písnice, home to many Vietnamese.

The temple would be the country’s second: the first opened earlier this year in Varnsdorf, North Bohemia.

Marcel Winter is the head...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Daily Press

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=61,7057,0,0,1,0

Buddhist monks must stop holding services at their home near Pungo. In an 8-2 vote Tuesday, the Virginia Beach City Council denied the monks' request to use their West Neck Road house as a temple with a Sunday service for two more years.

Author: Jo Mathis

Source: The Ann Arbor News

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=62,7046,0,0,1,0

In the market for a three-pronged, battery-operated marshmallow toaster? How about a set of nail clippers glued to a tiny soccer ball?

If your tastes run a bit more pedestrian, there's also a plethora of the practical at the Ann Arbor's Zen Buddhist Temple's 20th annual Great Green Yard Sale Saturday through Monday.

The...

Author: Jeong Jae-hyun

Original Source: International Herald Tribune

Wire Service: AP

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/726046

Tens of thousands of South Korean Buddhists rallied Wednesday against alleged religious discrimination by the government of President Lee Myung-bak, the...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: M...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Daily Press/The Buddhist Channel

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=61,6980,0,0,1,0

Buddhist monks in Virginia Beach are hoping to continue to seek tranquility and worship with others in a nearly $1 million brick ranch home.

While the monks urged patience, for several Virginia Beach Planning Commissioners the clock had run out. In a 6-4 vote last week, the commission recommended that the monks...

Author: Eleanor Clark

Source: The Daily News/The Buddhist Channel

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=61,6971,0,0,1,0

During the month of August, the Rosenberg Library will exhibit a collection of Buddhist sacred objects made in Japan during the late 19th century. These items include an amulet, three vajras, a priest’s headdress and three statues of Buddha. A Galveston businessman, Waters Davis, purchased the artifacts in 1890....

Author: Kang Hyun-kyung

Source: The Korea Times

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=45,6973,0,0,1,0

Leaders of Buddhist groups threatened Friday to hold a massive rally Aug. 27 in Seoul to protest President Lee Myung-bak's alleged discrimination against them unless he offers an apology.

In addition to the apology, monks demanded a binding code of conduct requiring civil servants to maintain religious neutrality.

...

Author: Lucky Severson

Source: Religion News Service/Religion and Ethics Newsweekly

http://pewforum.org/news/display.php?NewsID=16281

All eyes are on China as it plays host to the 2008 Olympic games, and for the moment, earlier unrest over China's treatment of Tibet has largely moved off center stage -- much to Beijing's relief.

Yet the decades-long tussle over Tibet continues to color the games, and some wonder what will happen after the...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Los Angeles Chronicle

http://www.losangeleschronicle.com/articles/71473

University of the West President Dr. Allen Huang announced on Thursday the interim approval of its Buddhist Chaplaincy Program by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

UWest will immediately begin recruiting students to the three-year program for the training of chaplains, who would work at hospitals, prisons and in other...

Author: Eric Hagen

Source: ABC Newspapers

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Chosun Ilbo

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200808/200808110023.html

The Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism has demanded an apology and an answer from the government for leaving out Buddhist temples, including major ones such as Bulguk, Baekyang and Bongeun temples, on a website called the Educational Geographic Information System, operated by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology,...

Author: Sean Yoong

Original Source: The Straits Times

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/710592

Protestors forced lawyers in Malaysia to abandon a conference on religious conversion on Saturday, decrying it as an effort to challenge the official status of Islam in this Muslim-majority country.

Police...

Author: Claudia Vargas

Source: Democrat and Chronicle

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=60,6943,0,0,1,0

After years of traveling around the country to Buddhist retreats, viewing Webcasts and listening in on conference calls, two Rochester-area women were ordained as Buddhist teachers Sunday by a Tibetan Buddhist.

Sue Kochan and Jan Cook, both local businesswomen, said Sunday they felt like they were "coming out of the closet...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Thaindian News/ANI

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/mass-funeral-of-the-stampede-victims-update_10079896.html

A mass funeral for 11 victims of the ”Naina Devi” temple stampede was organised in Rajpura in Patiala District of Punjab today.

Thirty children and 38 women were among those killed in the stampede that was apparently sparked...