Author: JIM YARDLEY and JAKE HOOKER

Source: The New York Times

Author: Eric Stevick

Source: The Buddhist Channel/HeraldNet

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=65,6197,0,0,1,0

As curious onlookers recorded the methodical movements with flashing cell phones, the Buddhist monks practiced their ancient craft with handmade tools.

Their disciplined hands funneled each colorful and purposeful grain of sand into place.

In monastic robes, Venerable Tenzin Thutop and Venerable Tenzin...

Author: Carole Reckinger

Source: New Statesman/Buddhist Channel

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=82,6195,0,0,1,0

Six months ago the world watched a courageous attempt led by Buddhist monks to replace military dictatorship with democracy. But what's the situation in Burma today?

In recent days much of the world's attention has been firmly fixed on Tibet and the plight of the Burmese people seems to have been all but...

Author: Barbara Demick

Source: The Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-reeducate8apr08,0,370577.story

In an effort to quell unrest, Communist Party officials are ordering Tibetans back to school.

Buddhist monks, civil servants and public school students have been instructed to attend special classes in the virtues of Chinese rule and the evils of their exiled leader, the Dalai...

Author: AMANDA KING

Source: Times

http://www.times.co.nz/cms/news/2008/04/art100019860.php

BUDDHA’S birthday celebrations at the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist temple in Botany on Sunday will be a day for all cultures and religions to come together, the organisers say.

“It’s to foster a better understanding of other cultures and religious groups,” says temple manager Rev Man Wang.

“Buddhism accepts...

Author: Kevin Eckstrom

Source: Pew Forum

Wire Service: RNS

http://pewforum.org/news/display.php?NewsID=15337

A federal religious freedom watchdog panel has urged President Bush to boycott the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics unless "there is substantial improvement" in China's treatment of Tibet.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom said China must open "direct and concrete talks"...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Dallas Morning News

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=61,6180,0,0,1,0

During the 1970s, Paul Thai, like most of his fellow countrymen, lived in terror during the reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.

Despite the many hardships from those years, the Dallas police lieutenant said, one of his fondest childhood memories was celebrating Chaul Chnam Thmey, or the Cambodian new year...

Source: Courier News

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/couriernews/lifestyles/866504,3_5_EL30_FAITH_S1.article

The building retains its classically American-Protestant design outside, right up to the steeple pointing heavenward. Inside, the pews have been removed to accommodate Eastern worshippers, and the former pulpit focal point has given way to a 6-foot-tall white marble statue of Sai Baba.

This is the Shirdi Sai Temple, a...

Author: DENIS D. GRAY

Source: WTOP News

Wire Service: AP

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel/WRAL.com

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=61,6152,0,0,1,0

Activists in the Triangle on Saturday joined calls around the world urging support for a protest movement in the Chinese province of Tibet.

About 50 people gathered on the lawn outside the State Capitol Building to pray for peace in Tibet, where peaceful demonstrations led by Buddhist monks turned violent about two...

Author: Parveen Talpur

Source: Star-Gazette/Gannett News Service

http://www.star-gazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080329/LIFE/803290309/1035

Tucked inside a turn-of-the-century Victorian house at 412 Aurora St. in Ithaca is a well-known Buddhist monastery that draws in students and visitors from all over North America.

"From the outside, you couldn't tell it is a temple because it is a house in a...

Author: Janaka Perera

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Asian Tribune

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=3,6096,0,0,1,0

The Buddhist Vihara at Berlin could play a major role in attracting German Buddhists to Sri Lanka, according to Tourism Deputy Minister Faiz Mustapha. The Deputy Minister told this [to] the Venerable Wilachchiye Dhammavijaya Thera during a visit to the temple this month.

Mr. Mustapha who visited the temple with a...

Author: Catherine DuBose

Source: MyFox Gulf Coast/Buddhist Channel

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=61,6086,0,0,1,0

The "Thai Buddhist Temple on The World" in Irvington caught fire Sunday around 10 a.m.

Firefighters tried to put out the fire from the inside but the building was fully engulfed in flames. The main building is a total loss and two other structures are damaged.

Author: Simon Montlake

Source: The Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0318/p99s01-duts.html

Recent attacks in Thailand's restless Muslim-dominated south have rattled Thailand's new government, which called an emergency meeting March 21 with security chiefs. Two people died in a blast Saturday outside a luxury hotel in Pattani Province that is popular with Thai government officials, visiting foreign diplomats, and reporters. A...

Author: Rev. Hozan Alan Senauke

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Buddhist Peace Fellowship

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=70,6064,0,0,1,0

As hundreds of Buddhist monks and ordinary citizens take to the streets of Lhasa protesting Chinese occupation of Tibet, like their brothers...