Author: Staff Writer

Source: Business Standard

Author: Sumeth Panpetch

Source: AP

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Economic Times

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/PoliticsNation/Tension_follows_Buddhist_Bhikkus_death_in_Mumbai_/articleshow/2679387.cms

Tension prevailed in various places across the city today following the alleged suicide of a Buddhist priest opposing a redevelopment project in north east Mumbai's Deonar, police said.

Sporadic...

Author: Janet Fillmore

Source: Chicago Tribune

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2008-01-09-0801070238-story.html

When the Ven. Shih Ying-Fa parks his 5-foot-10-inch frame before the computer in his home office, he...

Author: Benjamin Kang Lim

Source: The Star

Wire Service: Reuters

Author: Staff Writer

Original Source: AFP

Brutal killings have reached unprecedented levels in Thailand's Muslim-majority south, experts say, as the region enters the fifth year of a separatist insurgency that is tearing communities apart.

A government policy of reconciliation in the region has backfired, analysts told AFP, with rebels beheading, mutilating and even crucifying victims to try to spark a backlash and create divisions between Buddhists and Muslims.

"They kill in such brutal ways:...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/nottinghamshire/7167584.stm

A Buddhist centre in Nottingham has sent a petition to the city council opposing a new bar because noise may interrupt meditation classes. The centre said it could be forced to relocate if the licence was granted for the bar on St Mary's Gate.

But the bar's managing director David Caddick said "impact from the...

Author: Aye Nai

Source: The Buddhist Channel/The Democratic Voice of Burma

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=82,5686,0,0,1,0

The All-Burmese Monks Alliance called on the people of Burma to support their struggle against the regime, but stressed that they should not use violence, in a statement issued yesterday.

The statement urged monks to continue with their boycott of the Burmese regime, and said that if monks and the...

Author: JIM JONES

Source: The Wichita Eagle

http://www.kansas.com/194/story/266300.html

Bob Carver, a Buddhist from Grapevine, Texas, won't be popping champagne corks on New Year's Eve. Instead, he will pray, chant and make resolutions that won't be forgotten in a day or two.

"The New Year for Buddhists is a serious time for re-determination -- a chance to start over," said Carver, a computer-security specialist. "We pray for wisdom and to do the...

Author: Suzette Laboy

Source: The Associated Press

http://www.newser.com/article/1A1-D8TU3BE00.html

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

Wat Buddharangsi, a Thai Buddhist temple, is unexpectedly found on two hectares in the rural town of Homestead, a short drive from Miami. To get there, you have to take the roads just...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: AOL News

Wire Service: AP

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/cambodia-buddhist-monks-police-clash/n20071217040909990005

Dozens of Buddhist monks kicked, punched and hurled bottles at baton-wielding police in Cambodia's capital Monday at a demonstration to demand religious freedom for monks in neighboring Vietnam.

The clashes erupted as about 40 monks...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Japan Times

Wire Service: AP

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20071216a5.html

Japanese monks and nuns held a fashion show — replete with rap music and a catwalk — at a major temple in Tokyo on Saturday to promote Buddhism.

In the Tokyo Bouz (monk) Collection held at Tsukiji Honganji, nearly 40 monks and nuns from eight major Buddhist sects joined in...

Author: Rich Barlow

Source: The Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/12/15/meditation_practice_frees_inmates/

It's not every teacher whose class attendance depends on whether there's a lockdown under way. But the Venerable Ajahn David Chutiko, a Buddhist monk, has accustomed himself to the vicissitudes of prison life in three years of teaching meditation at the Federal Medical Center Devens....

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel/The Star

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=56,5587,0,0,1,0

Work on a new Kedah Buddhist Association building near Alor Star, Kedah, costing about RM10mil will start early next year.

Kedah Buddhist Association secretary Ong Jin Peng said that they had already got the approval from the Alor Star City Council for the new building. “We got the approval in September 2003 to...

Author: Simon Montlake

Source: The Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1213/p06s02-woap.html

Nearly two decades of treating Burmese migrants on the Thai border has taught Cynthia Maung, herself a political refugee from military-ruled Burma (Myanmar), to expect the unexpected. Every day brings more migrants to her private clinic – many of whom can't afford treatment.

On Monday, the unexpected came from an entirely...