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    • Young Spiritual Leader Arrives in New York, Ready to Teach and Be ... - New Y...
      15 May 2008 at 8:04pm

      Young Spiritual Leader Arrives in New York, Ready to Teach and Be ...
      New York Times, United States - 4 hours ago
      They revere him as leader of the Kagyu sect ? called the black hat or black crown sect ? one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. ...


       
    • Sangha needs to look within - Bangkok Post
      15 May 2008 at 8:24pm

      Sangha needs to look within
      Bangkok Post, Thailand - 4 hours ago
      Last year, the Office of National Buddhism which represents the clergy tried in vain to convince the coup-appointed National Legislative Assembly to pass ...


       
    • The World's Next Top Lama - TIME
      15 May 2008 at 7:51pm

      Spiegel Online

      The World's Next Top Lama
      TIME - 4 hours ago
      Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the 17th Karmapa, or head of the Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism, sat at his ease in a throne-like overstuffed chair in New York's ...
      CTA's response to Chinese government allegations Phayul
      Pico Iyer?s New Book The Open Road Distills the Dalai Lama?s Teachings The Santa ...


       
    • Second day of Vesak celebration continues with messages of peace - Thanh Nien...
      15 May 2008 at 10:51pm

      Thanh Nien Daily

      Second day of Vesak celebration continues with messages of peace
      Thanh Nien Daily, Vietnam - 1 hour ago
      ?For the past 2500 years, Buddhism has contributed to reducing hatred and animosity in this world and has helped replace them with love and shared ...
      Symposium on Buddhist response to global issues VietNamNet Bridge
      Vietnam?s Vesa...


       
    • Looking at changed lives on death row - Boston Globe
      15 May 2008 at 10:16pm

      Boston Globe

      Looking at changed lives on death row
      Boston Globe, United States - 2 hours ago
      We get a glimpse of the larger cultural hostility to this "outsider religion" - a church-lady type interviewed on the street dismisses Buddhism as ...


       
    • ?Neural Buddhism? as religion?s future - World Magazine
      14 May 2008 at 9:06am

      ?Neural Buddhism? as religion?s future
      World Magazine, NC - May 14, 2008
      ?Instead it will lead to what you might call neural Buddhism.? According to Brooks, neuroscience is moving the atheism-theism debate from culturally ...


       
    • Muslim convert returns to Buddhism - The Press Association
      7 May 2008 at 11:10pm

      Al-Arabiya

      Muslim convert returns to Buddhism
      The Press Association - May 7, 2008
      A Malaysian Islamic court has allowed a Muslim convert to return to her original faith of Buddhism. The Shariah High Court's verdict is believed to the ...
      Back to Buddhism, Malaysian woman wants to move on Thaindian.com
      Malaysia: Tribunal allows Muslim to return to Bud...


       
    • Nation celebrates Buddha?s legacy - Viet Nam News
      15 May 2008 at 2:09am

      VietNamNet Bridge

      Nation celebrates Buddha?s legacy
      Viet Nam News, Vietnam - 22 hours ago
      "It also shows that the State of Viet Nam cares for and respects the importance of religion?s moral values, including those of Buddhism," he said. ...
      Deputy PM greets Chinese Buddhist delegates VietNamNet Bridge
      Gambia looks to Vietnam for help with rice culti...


       
    • Our Pantheist Future - Atlantic Online
      15 May 2008 at 10:35am

      Our Pantheist Future
      Atlantic Online - 14 hours ago
      It?s going to come from scientists whose beliefs overlap a bit with Buddhism. In unexpected ways, science and mysticism are joining hands and reinforcing ...


       
    • Burmese junta stonewalling on cyclone aid - San Francisco Chronicle
      14 May 2008 at 2:02am

      Christian Science Monitor

      Burmese junta stonewalling on cyclone aid
      San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - May 14, 2008
      Buddhism is central to Burma, and perhaps 80 percent of the country's 48 million people are practicing Buddhists in the Theravada tradition. ...
      Race against time to help Nargis victims Bangkok Post
      Burma: monks vs. junta Christian Science...


       

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