Buddhist 'People Of Color Sanghas', Diversity Efforts Address Conflicts About ...
"People say we're going against Buddhism," says Tuere Sala, the black Buddhist teacher who is one of the leaders of the movement in Seattle and taught the beginner's course in October.www.huffingtonpost.com
Why Buddhists and Muslims in Rakhine state in Myanmar are at each others ...
But in one spot, black smoke was billowing. Another village was burning. From October 22nd-24th Mrauk-u, a tourist centre in Rakhine state in Myanmar, and former ... Many of its residents had fled by sea for the state capital, Sittwe, to join some 75 ...www.economist.com
My Take: 113th Congress looks like old America
And it was a triumph as well for religious diversity, thanks especially to Hawaii, which is sending the first Hindu to the House and the first Buddhist to the Senate. ... Moreover, all the Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists in the incoming Congress are ...religion.blogs.cnn.com
Foreign aid workers feel the burn of Myanmar's ethnic fires
Yet the international aid groups who flock towards such disaster zones - Doctors Without Borders and the United Nations among them - are encountering furious resistance from bands of local Buddhists. Foreign aid to the Rohingya, who've reportedly ...www.alaskadispatch.com
Lama Ole Nydahl teaches Phowa
Nydahl is also the author of the upcoming book entitled Fearless Death: Buddhist Wisdom on the Art of Dying, about which he states: "Death is a black hole in our [Western] collective awareness at the moment", but "Tibetan Buddhism has a lot of unique ...www.nj.com
Religious revolution: Buddhist and Hindu Congress members make history
Buddhist Mazie Hirono is elected to Senate and Hindu Tulsi Gabbard is sent to Congress, in landmark wins for members of both world religions.www.globalpost.com
Baseball and the Illusion of Self
In September 1979, Catholics throughout the United States witnessed a unique and telling moment: a respected and revered Catholic leader and a much loved and widely recognized Buddhist Spiritual King encouraging Catholics and Buddhists to open up to ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Tupelo's community service set for Monday
In recent years, the service has featured speakers of multiple Christian denominations, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus and others.djournal.com
US Sri Lankans with Obama; not with his liberalism
Whereas Americans have traditionally been deferential to the president, they have not been so to the black president. The Republican Party, once respected as the party of Lincoln, (Eisenhower and Reagan), is now swayed by the ... But they defended ...www.srilankaguardian.org
Special Report: Myanmar military's next campaign: shoring up power
Deadly sectarian violence in Rakhine State in October was a major test for government troops, who showed restraint in policing the unrest between ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims. Ethnic insurgencies rage elsewhere along Myanmar's ...in.reuters.com
The election of diversity
To date there have only been three Mormons, three Buddhists and a single Sikh in Congress. With the election of Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, to Congress, the first practicing Hindu is all set to defend the Constitution.www.mndaily.com
Magical kingdom
We start at dawn to climb up to Takshang Monastery, or Tiger's Nest as it is better known, one of the most important pilgrimage sights for Buddhists. We are escorted by Tara, our local (nimble and young) ... Ja Gye - the 108 principal temptations in ...www.theaustralian.com.au
Comic book fights bullying
Hughes, a light-skinned son of a black father and white mother, often felt the he did not fit in when growing up in the black neighborhood of his childhood. Adding to his feelings of alienation, Hughes was dyslexic and was pulled out of his regular ...www.nctimes.com
Paying holy men to pray
THIS "black speck", as Eric Williams once labelled Trinidad and Tobago (and other Caribbean island-states), must be the holiest country in the world—and I'm not referring to potholes on our roads, in which we probably also rank high.www.trinidadexpress.com
Getting Nowhere with John Cage: A Zen Biography
Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists by Kay Larson. The Penguin Press, New York, 2012.www.booktryst.com
Eclipse Legends and Their Impact
The Vikings felt that a solar eclipse would one day foretell the start of the final battle of Ragnarok ending the world of gods and men while the Native American Choctaw tribe believed that a black squirrel, a symbol of mischief, would try and eat the ...www.examiner.com
Myths and Mountains in Nepal
As a boy, I had seen my mother embrace certain Buddhist beliefs, and later I began walking paths in the Himalayas in search of something transcendent in the landscape and the abiding expressions of faith.travel.nytimes.com
Promises Dashed, Poster Trashed -- Can Hope in Obama Be Recycled?
On Easter or Christmas she might drag him to church, but she also took him to Buddhist temples, Chinese New Year celebrations, Shinto shrines, and to ancient Hawaiian burial sites.www.huffingtonpost.com
Let your 'yes' be 'yes' and let your 'no' be 'no'
What irritates me is that, for Obama, having the option to invoke God during his swearing in is roughly equivalent to the totally-optional-not-at-all-important option of adding "And I promise I will not sacrifice thousands of children on a black altar ...www.patheos.com
A Note on Thurber's Dogs
The Zen Buddhists, it's said, ask one question to indicate another: "Why did Bodhidharma leave for the East?" really means something like "What ... Then there are the memorable dogs who filled up the cellar at 921 South Champion Avenue, only to emerge ...www.newyorker.com
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