Author: Sarah Page

Source: Compass Direct News

http://www.crosswalk.com/news/religiontoday/11599939/

A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released in January details serious and ongoing abuses against the Chin people, a minority group in Burma’s northwest who claim to be 90 percent Christian.

HRW’s research echoes a 2004 report by the Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) that described targeted abuse of Christians in Chin state...

Author: Dana Clark Felty

Source: Savannah Morning News

http://savannahnow.com/node/675928

Members of the Buddhist Association of Savannah are planning to build a 3,200-square-foot temple on their property on U.S. 80 in Garden City, according to association president An Nguyen.

The new building will include marble floors through the roughly 2,000 square feet of worship space and about 1,200 square feet designated for a kitchen, dining area, library and...

Author: Kristin Bender

Source: The Oakland Tribune

http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_11752042

The brunch will go on.

Ten months after a small group of neighbors complained that Wat Mongkolratanaram, a Buddhist temple on Russell Street was abusing its protections as a religious organization by running a professional-style restaurant that serves Thai food to hundreds of people on Sunday, the city's zoning...

Author: Christopher Bodeen

Source: The Associated Press

Author: Maureen Fan

Source: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/02/18/ST2009021803418.html

The Buddhists came by the busload to this partially frozen reservoir about 55 miles north of Beijing. In the morning, they released 53,000 fish into holes cut in the ice. In the afternoon, they walked clockwise around a bonfire in the courtyard of a windswept rural hotel, chanting...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Hinduism Today

https://www.hinduismtoday.com/blogs-...

Author: Meredith Moss

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Dayton Daily News

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=62,7794,0,0,1,0

She expected the giant statue to be delivered to her home in Yellow Springs by UPS.

Instead, Ellen Marie Lauricella was notified in June that the 835-pound statue of Buddha had been sent by air from Nepal and was waiting to be picked up in Columbus.

"It took 10 strong members to get it into the...

Author: David Yonke

Source: The Toledo Blade

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090214/NEWS10/902140405/-1/NEWS40

The University of Toledo is expanding its annual interfaith lecture series to include a talk on Eastern religion, scheduled for Wednesday night.

The first lecture of 2009 will be given by Ashley Pryor, associate professor of women's and gender studies at UT, titled "...

Author: Emma Graham-Harrison

Source: International Herald Tribune

Wire Service: Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-38024520090215

Buddhist monasteries have reopened to the devout in Tibet's regional capital, but nearly a year after...

Author: Riya Bhattacharjee

Source: The Buddhist Channel/The Berkeley Daily Planet

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=65,7770,0,0,1,0

The nearly year-long zoning battle over Sunday brunch at the Berkeley Thai Temple may finally come to an end Thursday when members request a permit modification from the Berkeley Zoning Adjustments Board that would allow the temple to sell food weekly instead of only three times annually. This proposal has...

Author: Tom Morton

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Casper Star-Tribune

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=63,7760,0,0,1,0

The Natrona County Public Library canceled a program by a Buddhist monk scheduled for Saturday because it crossed the line between imparting information and preaching, the library's community relations director said Tuesday. "It has an intent to proselytize, but we can't do that in a county building," Brenda Thomson...

Author: Ajita Perera

Source: Worcester Examiner

http://www.examiner.com/x-1560-Worcester-Examiner~y2009m1d28-Buddhist-meditation-center-in-Framingham-ushers-in-New-Year

The New England Buddhist Vihara & Meditation Center (NEBV&MC) in Framingham ushered in 2009 with a blessing ceremony called ‘Ata Visi Buddha Pooja’ held on January 1st.

It was a bitterly cold...

Author: Lindsay Melvin

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Memphis Commercial Appeal

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=61,7693,0,0,1,0

Led by the hollow beat of a drum, people knelt on cushions the size of throw pillows Sunday morning, chanting a rhythmic prayer in Vietnamese to welcome the spirits of the dead.

At Pho Da Temple, a tiny, red-roofed Buddhist prayer hall in Raleigh, nearly 50 people came to make offerings to their...

Author: Sally S. Ho

Source: The Buddhist Channel/The Denver Post

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=63,7690,0,0,1,0

Brushed in thick black ink on red pieces of paper, the Chinese characters read "Earnest cultivation yields fruitful harvests."

The Buddhist blessing was taped along each door at the Denver Buddhist Cultural Society and temple for Chinese New Year.

The 15-day celebration that began on Sunday is noted...

Author: Greg Mellen

Source: Contra Costa Times

http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_11543167?nclick_check=1

Despite a gloomy forecast, cold weather and rainfall, for the second time in a year about 400 congregants of a Cambodian Buddhist temple showed up to cast ballots in an attempt to find leadership at the embattled temple.

Friday's election, for all nine spots on the temple's board of directors, was ordered by...