Author: Jim Jones

Source: Star-Telegram

http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/03/19/2053576/in-fort-worth-buddhists-are-raising.html

An impressive Buddhist temple is rising on the city's east side. To the Rev. Buu Duc, the Vietnamese-born abbot of the Huong Dao Temple and Monastery, it's an improbable dream come true.

"My only goal when I came here 10 years ago was to share my Buddhist knowledge," said Duc,...

Author: Diane Smith

Source: Star-Telegram

https://star-telegram.newspapers.com/search/#query=Euless+to+Get+...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Indian Express

[indianexpress.com/news/Holi-finds-mention-in-US-Congress/593081]

Holi, the festival of colours, has found mention in the US Congress with an American lawmaker from New York terming it as a "visually stunning" event. 

Holi is a time when communities come together after a long winter to welcome the spring harvest, Congressman Steve Israel said in the House of Representatives.

"It is a visually stunning event with...

Author: Karen Davis

Source: Yellow Advertiser

http://www.yellowad.co.uk/tn/news.cfm?id=9646&headline=New%20restaurant%20blessed

A Leigh restaurant re-opened last week with the blessing of three Buddhist monks. 

Manoly’s has been serving Thai food for 25 years, but now has a new Thai look. 

Author: Virginie Montet

Source: Google News

Wire Service: AFP

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gFvI6WZp26dl6-Zn1ArEzrhlvoyQ

A complete Tibetan Buddhist shrine room, including a silver Buddha, gem-encrusted adornments and silk scroll paintings, goes on display for the first time in Washington on Saturday.

The shrine room has been set up in a religiously accurate...

Author: Dan Miner

Source: The Observer-Dispatch

http://www.uticaod.com/news/x1526460032/Buddhist-statue-approved-for-North-Utica-neighborhood

A Buddhist temple finally received permission this week to erect a religious statue on its North Utica property.

The city’s Zoning Board of Appeals at its Tuesday meeting granted an area variance to the Dau Trang Minh Dang Quang Temple on Riverside Drive...

Author: John Darling

Source: Ashland Daily Tidings

http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100310/NEWS02/3100308/-1/NEWSMAP

With about $200,000 in donated labor from volunteers, many of them "just walking in the door, wanting to help," a three-story, $1.6 million Buddhist meditation center is nearing completion and will open for classes the first week of June.

The graceful, 5,800-square-...

Author: David Yonke

Source: The Toledo Blade

http://toledoblade.com/article/20100306/NEWS10/3060382/-1/NEWS

In what may have been the first ceremony of its kind in the Toledo area, two local Zen Buddhist teachers were ordained as priests and 17 of their students professed Buddhist vows in a Jukai service Sunday at Lourdes College.

The teachers, Jay "Rinsen" Weik and his wife, Karen "Do'on" Weik, were ordained by Sensei Melissa "...

Author: Jeff Piorkowski

Source: Sun Messenger

http://blog.cleveland.com/sunmessenger/2010/03/tzu_chi_buddhists_spread_goodw.html

The year was 1966 when a young Taiwanese woman practicing Buddhism taught compassion and the serving of others in that Far East country.

Before long, she had acquired a group of 30 housewives as followers. Without means to fully serve those around her, that woman, Dharma Master Cheng...

Author: Omar Sacirbey

Source: Religion News Service

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

Canadian lawyer Kerry Gearin is planning to fly to Washington, D.C., this summer for a conference on Islamic family law, but the full-body scanners being deployed in some U.S. airports make her wonder if she’ll be forced to leave her modesty...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Nepal News

The European Union has condemned last week's ethnic violence in Bangladesh. 

A number of families have been displaced from the Chittagong Hill Tract area, which has a significant Buddhist population. 

At least five people were killed and over twenty injured when a number of people from the Buddhist groups were targeted and their houses burned down. 

Author: Peggy Fletcher Stack

Source: The Salt Lake Tribune

http://www.sltrib.com/features/ci_14479368

A new Buddhist figure from China is finding followers across the United States and now has at least one in Utah -- Margaret Esterman.

Esterman had studied Zen Buddhism for 15 years when Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche, a high-level female disciple of Dorje Chang Buddha III, discussed the master's teachings and recent book at Salt Lake City's Unitarian...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The New York Times

Wire Service: AP

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/02/25/world/AP-AS-Australia-Baby-Elephant.html?_r=2

Mali the baby elephant played with a red rubber ball as three Buddhist monks splashed her face with water Thursday in blessing ceremony for the Melbourne Zoo's newest star.

The calf, just under six weeks old, is the second...

Author: Richard Lake

Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal

http://www.lvrj.com/news/cats-escape-cycle-of-suffering-on-the-buddhist-path-in-nlv-85183632.html

On a dusty corner in North Las Vegas, there is a Buddhist temple. On that temple's property, there are cats. Many, many cats. Dozens of cats, in fact, have been known to congregate there.

These are fe...

Author: Emerson Clarridge

Source: Wicked Local Cape Cod/GateHouse News Service

http://www.wickedlocal.com/capecod/lifestyle/faith/x1650253999/Buddhist-temple-takes-statue-fight-to-New-York-Supreme-Court

After losing several rounds with the city Zoning Board of Appeals, a North Utica, N.Y., Buddhist temple is taking to court its fight to erect a white marble statue in its front...