Source: International Herald Tribune

Wire Service: AP

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/11/asia/AS-GEN-Thailand-Southern-Violence.php

BANGKOK, Thailand: Muslims and Buddhists staged rival protests Sunday in southern Thailand, as violence in the troubled area continued with three more killings.

In Pattani province, about 60 veiled Muslim women blocked a main road to demand the release of three...

Author: Matthew J. Webster

Source: Salem News

http://www.salemnews.com/local/local_story_067094826?page=0

Dressed in a yellow robe, the Venerable Kato, a Buddhist monk, beat a handheld drum as he marched in the freezing cold wind down Main Street in Essex yesterday, accompanied by eight local supporters.

Kato and Tow-Bee, another Buddhist monk based in the western Massachusetts town of Leverett, chanted in slow drones as they...

Author: Lynne Tuohy

Source: Hartford Courant

http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-cambud0307.artmar07,0,6285768.story?coll=hc-headlines-local

Many members of the Cambodian Buddhist Society of Connecticut fled the "killing fields" of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge regime three decades ago. Their crucible now is a pitched legal battle over whether they can build a temple on 10 acres they own in Newtown.
...

Author: John Sullivan

Source: The Buddhist Channel

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=60,3796,0,0,1,0

Shawangunk, New York (USA) -- Victor Lapuszynski had just finished his meal of turnip cakes, fried spring rolls and sushi rolls, when asked what he has gained most from the study of Buddhism.

The proper answer, he replied, was "nothing."

To understand that enigmatic response is to understand some of the wisdom...

Author: Carol Chung

Source: The Buddhist Channel/The Standard

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=46,3797,0,0,1,0

Hong Kong, China -- The Su Bong Zen monastery, flanked by a foot massage parlor and a hair salon at its entrance, is not hard to find. And it is no longer a rarity in Hong Kong.

Among the more than 40 people sitting on round zafu cushions in the monastery, on the fifth floor of a commercial building in Causeway Bay...

Author: HOWARD W. FRENCH

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/world/asia/04china.html

SHANGHAI, March 3 — Qin Fangyi’s religious moment came after a walk in the pouring rain two years ago to a nunnery for a ceremony that her mother had urged her to attend.

Ms. Qin’s mother converted to Buddhism two years earlier despite her husband’s open hostility to religion, and quietly nudged her...

Author: Waveney Ann Moore

Source: The Buddhist Channel/St Petersburg Times

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=61,3791,0,0,1,0

PINELLAS PARK, Florida (USA) -- The petite woman with a shaved head, saffron robes and slippers carefully selects fruit and vegetables from the produce stand bins.

Here, she doesn't turn heads. She's a regular. But it's not unusual for Bhikkhuni Sudarshana Peliyagoda, 37, to stand out in a crowd....

Author: Ann Shaftel

Source: The Chronicle Herald

http://thechronicleherald.ca/AtHome/561141.html

THE HALIFAX Shambhala Centre on Tower Road is known for its colourful shrine rooms filled with sacred art.

Centre director Andrea Doukas discussed the symbolism and care of Shambhala Buddhist sacred art as we walked through the rooms and offices.

She said that in the Shambhala Buddhist approach, everything is inherently sacred. Art...

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Phuket Gazette

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=52,3790,0,0,1,0

PHUKET, Thailand -- The Makha Bucha holiday will again be marked by closed bars this year as police request all establishments that serve alcohol to shut down for the Buddhist celebration tomorrow.

Makha Bucha commemorates the day when 1,250 of Buddha’s disciples convened to hear the Buddha’s preachings. It also marks the day when Buddha...

Source: press.co.nz

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/3976412a6530.html

Serenity and enlightenment await Buddhist devotees with the opening of their new award-nominated Christchurch centre.

The International Buddhist Association centre in Riccarton Road, designed by Christchurch architectural firm Warren and Mahoney, includes a vegetarian cafe, art gallery, library and prayer hall.

The Christchurch president of the Buddha's Light Association,...

Author: Leslie Williams-Dennis

Source: Brownsville Herald

http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/onset?id=260&template=article.html

Nine Zen Buddhists, walking with only their backpacks and donated boots, will take the first steps of a long journey here Thursday.

“I walk in robes, I walk without money, I have to beg for everything,” Claude AnShin Thomas, a Zen Buddhist monk and group leader, said. “What we...

Author: CASEY CORA

Source: St. Petersburg Times

https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2007/02/26/officials-close-jailhouse-door-to-buddhist-chaplain/

Buddhist chaplain...

Author: Greg Garrison

Source: Star-Telegram

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/living/religion/16766520.htm

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- On a Sunday afternoon at the Birmingham Shambhala Meditation Center in Avondale, children sitting on red cushions took turns talking about Buddha and discussed learning how to meditate.

"I'm kind of crazy these days," said Ashlin Duncan, 6, "and my mom says I should come here."

Several said they knew a...

Source: news.scotsman.com

http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=296552007

TIBETAN Buddhists are set to stage a day of events in the Capital to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their first home in Europe.

Akong Tulku Rinpoche came to Scotland as a young refugee in 1967 and founded the West's first Centre for Tibetan Buddhism, the Samye Ling Centre in Eskdalemuir in Dumfries and Galloway.

The centre, with its spectacular temple, attracts thousands of...

Author: MARIANNE RZEPKA

Source: Ann Arbor News/The Buddhist Channel

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=62,3757,0,0,1,0

Ann Arbor, MI (USA) -- Someone left an odd message for the members of the Zen Buddhist Temple last month. The person opening the front gate on a Sunday morning found a 6-foot-tall cross leaning against the wall that fronts the temple at 1214 Packard Road. Attached to the cross was a message: "Dear sinners, Repent and ye...