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New Delhi, Nov.21(ANI): Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Saturday said that China wants a Dalai Lama of China’s Tibet or a Chinese version of Tibetan Buddhism, which he said was very strange. Click Here To Read the Full Post
A little about .... (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
New Delhi, Nov.21- ANI: Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Saturday said that China wants a Dalai Lama of China's Tibet or a Chinese version of Tibetan Buddhism, which he said was very strange.
Democracy Resource Center Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
URL: http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2009/09/22/resistance-monks-0 . Source: Human Rights Watch. This 99-page report written by longtime Burma watcher Bertil Lintner, describes the repression Burma's monks experienced after they led demonstrations against the government in September 2007. The report tells the stories of individual monks who were arrested, beaten and detained. Two years after Buddhist...
France24 (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Girls clad in maids' outfits are not traditionally associated with Buddhism, but that has not stopped monks at a centuries-old temple using Japanese pop culture to woo visitors. The Ryohoji temple, built in the late 16th century in a Tokyo suburb, erected a colourful manga-inspired sign at its entrance in June and has since seen visitor numbers perk up -- especially young men.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
New York - Tina Turner, whose famous legs, short skirts and spike heels have flashed across the stage nonstop for more than half a century, will turn 70 next week. Turner's enduring popularity resurge...
Water Dissolves Water (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
1. Today was the first day of my nine-day Thanksgiving vacation. I'll be travelling in a few days. but today I celebrated by spending the afternoon at a chan temple ( chan is the Chinese form of Zen, the ancestor tradition to the younger Japanese lineage). The temple was new to me, but it had apparently opened on the other side of the city about a year ago, and a friend had invited me to attend an...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
On Nov. 10, Ichiro Ozawa, secretary general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, dropped a bombshell in a speech he made atop one of Japan's most sacred mountains, Mount Koya, in Wakayama Prefecture. The temple on that mount was founded in the ninth century by the great monk Kukai (774-835), who was buried there. The doctrines of the Shingon (True Word) school of Buddhism he established, though...
ProudToBeCanadian Blog (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
There has been a little storm in a teacup over the itinerary of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s recent visit to India in the pages of the National Post . Some people have expressed unhappiness with Harper for his journey to Amritsar in Punjab, the sacred city of the Sikhs, and in visiting the Golden Temple for political mileage with Canada’s Sikh community. Others were put off by the prime...
Operation make the most of myself (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
This is another blog of mine that I have not been able to update for a while. I have been good with my list so far. This is what I have done so far. * Work out how to emmigrate to Canada and start working toward it. I have been looking into ways that it is possible for us to move and I have created a blog to follow my progress. * Declutter the flat. Get rid of as much as possible. I have managed to...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
NEW DELHI: Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Saturday emphasised the need to bring out books and texts on Tibet since there was not much literature available on Tibetan culture. He made the observation during a visit to Delhi ...
TEFL and travels in China (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
“Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.” – Bo Bennett quotes “How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never’.” – Martin Luther quotes (German Priest and Scholar whose questioning of certain church practices led to the Protestant Reformation. 1483-1546) “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
South Korean Buddhist monks headed to North Korea on Saturday for a joint ceremony with monks there, showing the countries continue civil exchange despite a bloody naval skirmish earlier this month.
Vlad Tepes (Free subscription) | yesterday
This superb document brought to you by by Baron Bodissey at Gates of Vienna. By reposting this, consider it signed by Eeyore at Vladtepesblog. The Counterjihad Manifesto by Baron Bodissey A representative of a European NGO contacted me this morning and asked for my help. His organization was preparing a presentation on the Islamization of Europe, and he was [...]
The Buddhist Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Lately there has been a lot of tension between Buddhist magazines and the online Buddhist community. These magazines sadly are missing the point behind the rise of the Buddhoblogosphere. It being a representation of how popular Buddhism is becoming in America but more importantly with how it's becoming popular with others besides the traditional American Buddhist core -- rich, white academics on the...
Wildmind Buddhist Meditation (Free subscription) | yesterday
Robert T. Edison was born and raised in Nottingham, England. When he was fourteen years old he began to practice Buddhism. At eighteen he became a monk and went to Thailand where, for a decade, he spent his time in monasteries as Bhikkhu Dhammanando. He became the first Buddhist monk in Iceland when he moved there in 1994 and founded a Buddhist sect. Here director Olaf de Fleur talks about the 10-year...
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