Author: Martin Petty

Source: Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSSP361306

A Buddhist monk was killed and another seriously injured when they were gunned down while collecting alms as more violence erupted in Thailand's restive south, police said on Friday.

The attack was the latest in a recent flare-up of bloody violence in the Muslim-majority region near the Malaysian border, where nearly 3,500 people have been...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/south_of_scotland/8089769.stm

A Tibetan centre in southern Scotland has welcomed a group of monks emerging after a four-year Buddhist retreat.

The 20 men have been cut off from the outside world since June 2005 when they entered a special sealed-off study centre on the Isle of Arran.

They emerged at the weekend to be taken to...

Author: Miriam Jordan

Source: The Buddhist Channel/The Wall Street Journal

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=65,8257,0,0,1,0

Monk Phra Bunphithak Jomthong entered the U.S. four years ago on a religious visa and has since devoted himself to serving a burgeoning Buddhist community in Southern California. Barefoot and clad in a saffron robe, Mr. Jomthong recently gave what amounts to the most accurate job description he has: "to share...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel

Wire Service: AP

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=62,8258,0,0,1,0

A Buddhist temple in Rochester has been vandalized twice over two weeks.

The Olmsted County Sheriff's Office is investigating the incidents at the Buddhist Support Society.

Sgt. Scott Behrns says the second incident happened late Thursday or early Friday, when someone...

Author: Josh Shaffer

Source: The News...

Author: Deepa Bharath

Source: The Orange County Register

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/buddha-buddhist-vesak-2446016-day-buddhists

For the first time, Buddhists from all over Southern California are congregating in Anaheim to celebrate Vesak or Buddha Day at the Convention Center Saturday.

"This is Buddha's birthday," said Thich Con Thanh, abbot of the Lien Hoa Buddhist Temple in Garden Grove. "This is like...

Author: Daniel Burke

Source: Religion News Service

http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/the_election_of_an_episcopal_bishop_who_has_practiced_zen_buddhism060509/

The election of an Episcopal bishop in Michigan who has practiced Buddhist meditation and changed traditional church prayers appears headed for defeat, according to an unofficial tally kept by a newspaper reporter...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel/ANI

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=42,8245,0,0,1,0

Buddhist monks and nuns here offered prayer for the victims of Air France Flight 447, which crashed in the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday night en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris with 228 passengers on board.

Devotees also joined the monks and nuns in their prayer meet, who were seen praying at the premises of the Mahabodhi...

Author: Chad Klimack

Source: Newark Advocate

http://www.newarkadvocate.com/article/20090604/NEWS01/906040368/1046/BUSINESS/Buddhist+center+may+be+coming+to+county

A Buddhist temple, hotel and spa could be coming to Pataskala.

Representatives from the Columbus Buddhism Center have talked to city officials about building the Columbus Thai Temple on 5 acres south of Blacks Road...

Author: Matthew Danelo

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Beaumont Enterprise

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=61,8246,0,0,1,0

"The lotus, it symbolizes how people can grow through Buddhism," Harlan, 55, said Monday while resting on a bench in one of the lush gardens at the Buu Mon Buddhist Temple in Port Arthur.

A former criminal, Harlan said he once embraced hatred and violence. Now he spends much of his time trying to...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: News of the North

http://newsofthenorth.net/article/Community/Education/Students_learn_about_Buddhism_Judaism_firsthand/24872

They left at 6:15 a.m.

“I’m always afraid that leaving so early would deter some students from attending,” said Rhinelander High School Comparative Religions teacher Linda Goldsworthy.

Luckily, the early...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: This Is Gloucestershire

http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/environment/Meditation-centre-Whaddon-gets-ahead/article-1039015-detail/article.html

Meditation, teaching and peace will bring serenity to a corner of Cheltenham after plans to convert Whaddon Lodge were approved.

The half-timbered building, which sits in a corner of Whaddon Park...

Author: Judith Maizey

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Albert...

Author: Kripa Krishnan

Source: The Buddhist Channel

Wire Service: PTI

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=42,8227,0,0,1,0

What does Barack Obama have in common with the Gyalwang Drukpa, spiritual leader of the 800-year-old Buddhist sect? The answer involves some hundred volunteers who march alongside the monks and nuns of the faith through the Himalayas on a 'padyatra'.

Many of the volunteers...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Tibet Custom

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=3,8225,0,0,1,0

His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the outset of giving teachings based on Nagarjuna's Commentary on Bodhicitta (Jangchum Semdrel) and Kalalashila's The Middle Stages of Meditation (Gomrim Barpa), told the audience of 3,600 people who had come to hear his teachings that he does not believe in conversion and therefore never tries...