Author: ANGEL N. ROSS

Source: Mansfield News Journal

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=62,5826,0,0,1,0

MANSFIELD, OH (USA) -- Michael Minock, founder of the Mansfield Zen Center, is reaching out to other Zen Buddhists who would like to practice with him. "I'm here to support Buddhist practice," Minock said.

The Mansfield Zen Center is in the living room of Minock's Lexington Avenue apartment -- until he can get a building or...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Radio Free Asia

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=46,5830,0,0,1,0

Chinese authorities in Tibet have recruited more than 140 Tibetan youths to perform traditional dances at the forthcoming Beijing Olympics, even as they impose new curbs on Buddhist culture in the Himalayan region, sources there say.

“The Chinese authorities believe that monasteries are the chief centers...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Prague Daily Monitor/ÄŒTK

http://www.praguemonitor.com/en/258/czech_national_news/17592/

The first Buddhist temple in the Czech Republic has been opened in Varnsdorf, north Bohemia, on the initiative of the local Vietnamese community, the daily Pravo wrote Wednesday.

The local Vietnamese have even had gold-plated statues and a Buddhist monk transported from Taiwan, the paper writes.

"It is...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Newsvine

Wire Service: AP

http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/23/1250906-buddhist-teacher-shot-in-thailand

Muslim militants fatally shot a Buddhist teacher as he pulled out of his driveway to head to work Thursday in restive southern Thailand, police said.

Officers detained two suspects in the attack.

The teacher was going to pick up...

Author: Robert Lowell

Source: American Journal

http://www.keepmecurrent.com/Government/story.cfm?storyID=48642

A bid by Maine's only Cambodian Buddhist temple, located on a rural road in Buxton, to hold celebratory gatherings drew strong opposition from neighbors Monday at a packed Buxton Planning Board meeting.

No decision was made on the request by Watt Samaki Cambodian Buddhist Temple, at 128 Back Nippen Road. Several...

Author: Bae Ji-sook

Source: Religion News Service/Korea Times

http://pewforum.org/news/rss.php?NewsID=14822

Religious groups are protesting that voting places are being unequally allocated to protestant churches, and are moving to file a petition with the Constitutional Court next month. They are appealing that the unequal allotment of the facilities is discriminatory and goes against the principle of neutrality that the country should uphold in elections....

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Hasting Observer

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=3,5807,0,0,1,0

The success of a weekly meditation class in Bexhill led to the opening of the Maitreya Buddhist Centre in Sea Road.

Local interest in meditation continues to grow, according to administrator Andrew Durling, who says the centre is "thriving" as it enters its third year.

A full programme of meditation...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The buddhist Channel/WMTW Portland

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=60,5785,0,0,1,0

A public hearing is set for Monday night before the Buxton Planning Board on an application to establish a Buddhist temple on a quiet rural road in the southern Maine town. Members of the region's Cambodian community want to set up the temple in a single-family house and attached commercial building they bought two years...

Author: Staff Writer

Original Source: AFP

Malaysian police have seized the body of an ethnic Chinese man in the latest dispute between Islamic authorities and family members over a disputed conversion, a report said Monday.

The eldest son of Gan Eng Gor, who died on Sunday aged 74, said his father became a Muslim last July, but his other children reject the claim and insist their father was a Buddhist.

The dispute comes just days after a court ordered a Christian woman's body be returned to her...

Author: Matthew Artz

Source: The buddhist Channel/Inside Bay Area

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=65,5789,0,0,1,0

All it took was one Jet Li kung fu movie for Shi Yanran to know what he wanted to do, way before he was all grown up.

The 25-year-old Buddhist monk was just 6 years old when he watched "Shaolin Temple" on video.

He was so transfixed by the fighting scenes and the 1,500-year-old Buddhist monastery...

Author: SUZETTE LABOY

Source: ajc.com

Wire Service: AP

http://www.ajc.com/travel/content/travel/southeast/fl_stories/2008/01/17/TRhomestead_0120.html

Between the alligator-infested Florida Everglades and the craziness of Miami Beach lies a peaceful center surrounded by tomato and fruit farms.

Wat Buddharangsi, a Thai Buddhist temple, sits on five acres in the town of...

Author: ERIC GERSHON

Source: The Hartford Courant

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=65,5786,0,0,1,0

Hannah Kluger has noticed that demonstrations of peace are not always met in kind.

"I don't understand why somebody would flip off a monk with a sign that says 'Peace,'" she said Saturday as she marched down Route 17A, past frozen fields and falling-down barns and the remains of an old drive-in.

But occasional rude...

Author: Dana Oland

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Idaho Statesman

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=65,5787,0,0,1,0

"We have the Buddha nature inside all of us," Dana Marsh says, smiling. "We just have to sit and it will uncover. Pay attention and we can recognize it."

She sits across the table sipping hot tea, draped in bright red and creamy white. Her home is comfortably uncluttered but not spartan: a little Zen, but not too...

Author: Staff Writer

Original Source: Reuters

The Thai government said on Friday it was failing to win over the ethnic Malays of the predominantly Muslim far south, where more than 2,800 people have been killed in four years of separatist insurgency.

"We made great progress on military operations last year, but our efforts with the people remained static," government spokesman Chaiya Yimwilai told a news conference. "We need to beef up on the arrests, searches, intelligence as well as the civil affairs...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The New York Times

Wire Service: AP

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/16/world/asia/16thailand.html?ref=world

Militants suspected of being Islamic separatists bombed a busy market in southern Thailand on Tuesday, wounding more than three dozen civilians, a day after rebels killed eight soldiers.

The separatist rebellion has entered its fifth year, and Thailand is...