Author: Preeti Bhattacharji

Source: Council on Foreign Relations

(Updated 2020) https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/religion-china

Introduction

Religious observance in China is on the rise. According to a survey published in a state-run newspaper, 31.4 percent of Chinese adults are religious, a...

Author: Grant McCool

Source: Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSBKK5494820080514

Victims of China's earthquake and Myanmar's cyclone were remembered on Wednesday when Buddhists opened a rare international religious event in Vietnam, whose critics accuse the government of abusing freedom of worship.

Hundreds of monks in yellow, maroon and saffron robes mixed with government officials and diplomats in suits in a Hanoi...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Dereham Times 24

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=3,6419,0,0,1,0

A Buddhist retreat could soon be open for meditation and religious festivals. Murray Wright, a senior ordained Buddhist, has applied for retrospective planning permission for the place of worship at his home in Mill Road, Hardingham.

The retreat is set around a pond water meadow and stream leading to Blackwater...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: WLS-TV/ABC7 Chicago

Author: BINAJ GURUBACHARYA

Source: Boston Examiner

Wire Service: AP

http://www.examiner.com/a-1385594~Nepal_police_detain_more_than_600_female_Tibetan_protesters.html

Police detained more than 600 female Tibetan protesters, including many Buddhist nuns, on Sunday after breaking up several demonstrations against China's recent crackdown in Tibet.

It was the...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The International Herald Tribune

Wire Service: AP

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/08/asia/malay.php

A Malaysian Islamic court allowed a Muslim convert Thursday to return to her original faith of Buddhism, setting a precedent that could ease religious minorities' worries about their legal rights.

Lawyers said that the Shariah High Court's verdict in the northern state of...

Author: Audrey Grasso

Source: Voices

Author: Robert King

Source: The Buddist Channel/NV Daily

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=61,6353,0,0,1,0

Deep in the woods of West Virginia, a small, Buddhist monastery uses the calm of nature to meditate. To the Bhavana Society, a monastery in High View, roughly 6 miles from Gore, the forest is an integral part of their religion.

"The forest is considered like our temple," said Bhante Rahula, a monk and vice abbot at the...

Author: Dennis Fujimoto

Source: The Garden Island/The Buddhist Channel

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=65,6345,0,0,1,0

There were only 30 families in the area when the first shovels of dirt were turned. A hundred years later, families turned out to celebrate the centennial of the Waimea Shingon Mission situated at the base of a cliff in Waimea Valley.

“Little hands made the difference,” said Bishop Dean Okimura...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Buddhist Channel

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=66,6336,0,0,1,0

Volunteers with the Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation Canada will be doing their part to actively fulfill the spirit of Canadian multiculturalism by taking part in the Harmony Festival 2008. The Festival will focus on the issues of global warming and will call ordinary citizens into action to help reduce carbon emissions....

Author: Asim Khan

Source: CNN-IBN

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/hindu-monk-strives-to-save-mahabodhi-temple/64497-3.html

The Mahabodhi temple is one of the holiest shrines for more than 35 crore Buddhists around the world. However, in the last few years this place has been in news for all the wrong reasons.

Today the situation is so grim that it is threatening the very existence of this holy site, including...

Author: CHINKI SINHA

Source: The Buddhist Channel/Observer-Dispatch

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=60,6335,0,0,1,0

If the design plan on the wall of a nondescript building on Kemble Street is any indication, the city soon will have a Buddhist monastery and a temple, complete with pagodas.

After years of looking at sites around the city, the Burmese Buddhist community last month bought an apartment building on Miller...

Author: JOHN STRAUSBAUGH

Source: The New York Times

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Portland Press Herald

http://news.mainetoday.com/updates/026420.html

Two-and-a-half years after proposing to build a Buddhist temple on a rural road in Buxton, members of southern Maine's Cambodian community this week received approval for their project from the Buxton Planning Board.

The Wat Samaki Temple on Back Nippen Road received the board's unanimous approval Monday with few changes to the proposal other than a...

Author: TINI TRAN

Original Source: AP

https://www.statesboroherald.com/local/associated-press/activists-china-persecuting-buddhist-monks-in-...