Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel/The Star

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=56,9762,0,0,1,0

A group of 40 Buddhist monks and novitiates displayed their spirit of giving and sharing by distributing food and provisions to elderly residents at Little Sisters of the Poor, Home for the Aged.

They were led by Mahindarama Buddhist Temple chief priest Ven E. Indaratana Maha Thera and Ven Dr K....

Author: Wendy Stueck

Source: The Globe and Mail

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/highway-to-heavens-many-paths-to-salvation/article587274/...

Author: Chad Klimack

Source: The Newark Advocate

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=63,9758,0,0,1,0

A plan to build a Thai Buddhist temple in the city is far from dead. In fact, construction on the temple could begin in the spring.

Representatives of the Columbus Buddhism Center have submitted paperwork to the city requesting a lot split for property on Blacks Road.

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Indian Express

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=42,9820,0,0,1,0

Young Buddhist monks are not averse to owning a television set or a motorcycle and would even love going around wearing jeans and sweatshirts, unlike in the past.

Early morning at around 4:30 am, the voices of the monks echo in the Thubchog Gatseling Monastery in West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh, as they...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Deutsche Presse-Agentur

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=51,9732,0,0,1,0

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday took part in public religious services for the first time since her release from house arrest. 

Suu Kyi offered donations of robes to about 700 Buddhist monks and 200 nuns gathered in front of the headquarters of her National League for...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: NewsTrack India

Wire Service: ANI

http://newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/194046

In a remarkable interfaith gesture, Buddhists welcomed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed to their Bodhi Day commemoration at Reno Buddhist Church (Nevada, USA) on December five.

 Rajan Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, talked about some important events in Gautama Buddha's life and briefed...

Author: Andrew Dunn

Source: The Buddhist Channel/StarNews Online

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=61,9715,0,0,1,0

In a patch of woods tucked off a Bolivia road, the monks are building teepees. Each one is formed from a few of the spindly pines that fill their 22 acres. In a few months, they will be guest accommodations of a spartan sort.

In June, the Wat Carolina Buddhist monastery, the only temple in...

Author: Paul Liberatore

Source: The Buddhist Channel/The Marin Independent Journal

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=12,9718,0,0,1,0

After a 20-year career as a still photographer, Marin's Heather Kessinger makes her filmmaking debut with "In the Shadow of Buddha," a documentary that takes viewers into the seldom-seen world of Tibetan Buddhist nuns in northernmost India. While beautifully photographed, it doesn't paint a completely...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Times of India

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/the-good-earth/Monks-lead-marathon-march-to-save-Himalayas/articleshow/7028236.cms

For those living in Darjeeling, banner-led political processions are quite an ordinary sight, but as a large contingent including monks and nuns who embarked on a marathon march on foot...

Author: Mich Moxley

Source: The Buddhist Channel/IPS News

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=46,9707,0,0,1,0

Quan Zhenyuan discovered Buddhism by accident. After the owner of a vegetarian restaurant here in the Chinese capital gave her a book about the religion, she became hooked. Today, Quan is one of a growing number of urban Chinese who turn to Buddhism for spiritual fulfillment.

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel/The ATelegraph

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=44,9703,0,0,1,0

A Buddhist temple in Kyoto is displaying its historic sculptures in 3D on iPads in a bid to provide 21st century appreciation of the artifacts.

Author: Frances Dinkelspiel

Source: The Buddhist Channel/The Berkeley Side

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=65,9705,0,0,1,0

Harold Way, a small street in the heart of downtown Berkeley, has become a new center for Tibetan Buddhism. In the last two years, followers of Tarthang Tulku, a Tibetan lama who came to Berkeley in 1969, have purchased three buildings next door to one another — a whole city block.

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel/DPA

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=3,9686,0,0,1,0

Europe's largest Buddhist centre has got the go-ahead for a site at a former military complex outside Cologne, it was confirmed Friday.

Author: Barney Zwartz

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

http://www.smh.com.au/national/melbourne-life/a-focus-on-faith-20101115-17ugo.html

A scrubby bush in the desert may seem an odd candidate for a sacred space, but so it was - according to the biblical account - when Moses approached the burning bush that fire did not consume. ''Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground,'' he was...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Western Buddhist Teachers for a Free Burma

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=70,9671,0,0,1,0

On November 1, 2010, the who's who of Buddhist teachers in the United States wrote a letter to President Barack Obama, imploring his administration to "to repudiate the results of the upcoming election" in Burma.

They have also asked for the establishment of a Commission...