Buddhist 'People Of Color Sanghas', Diversity Efforts Address Conflicts About ...
Here in Seattle, one of the least racially diverse cities with one of the largest Buddhist communities in the country, a controversial movement in American Buddhism is forming. A handful of exclusive "people of color" Buddhist groups have started to ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Buddhist, Hindu Make History With Elections To Congress
Both elections were cheered by Hindu and Buddhist Americans, members of two faiths that share a common history that traces back to ancient India.www.huffingtonpost.com
An interview with Lama Surya Das: American Buddhist and Bestselling Author
4) What is a challenge unique to American Buddhist culture, and how can we use the experience of that challenge to grow stronger in the dharma?www.patheos.com
Is Tibetan Buddhism the most popular in America?
As you can see by my title, I'm not so sure that it is, though I wouldn't be surprised if Tibetan Buddhism as a whole had more adherents in America than Theravadin or Zen. But the methodology of counting who's who gets tough. Do we count Seon and Ch'an ...www.patheos.com
Obama On Fiscal Cliff: 'We're Going To Need A Lot Of Prayer For That'
The Associated Press adds that Obama later said he was not joking about prayer's role in America's fiscal challenges.www.huffingtonpost.com
Is Meditation Buddhism Booming or Fading?
I have often written that we are approaching the 50 year mark of Buddhist meditation practice in America. In many ways this style of Buddhism has become well established and familiar to the mainstream culture. Meditation, dharma teachers, retreat ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Buddhist relics tour brings peace to Memphis visitors
Visitors to the Viet-America Buddhist Association of Memphis got to feel the energy of what some call a once-in-a-lifetime experience - an exhibit of relics of the Buddha. The sacred temple room was filled with palpable energy amid the remains of the ...www.commercialappeal.com
Implications of President Obama's Asian visit to Buddhist Burma
If a superpower such as the United States of America is showing surprised focus on Burma by arranging President Obama's first visit to a Buddhist nation and the focus is on the Rohingyas and the Rakhine state it is because this region in the Greater ...www.lankaweb.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. But is this religious change more symbolic than real? In "Faith on the Hill," a study ...religion.blogs.cnn.com
Buddhist Voters Aim To Bring Mindfulness To The Ballot Box
"Mindfulness, wisdom and ethical action are like three legs of a stool," said Fisher, a professor and coordinator of the Buddhist chaplaincy department at University of the West in Rosemead, Calif. "Buddhists in North America tend to focus on the first ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Musaeus, mother and mentor from America...
After her husband's death she looked around for a method of benefitting humanity through education and Theosophy. She read a notice placed in The Path, the US organ of the Theosophists, by Peter de Abrew of the Buddhist Theosophical Society (BTS), ...www.dailynews.lk
Aung San Suu Kyi, the Rohingya of Burma and the challenge of faith
In Suu Kyi's visit to American University where she received an honorary doctorate during her U.S. visit, we are provided with another powerful image of her, that of a supplicant Buddhist kneeling before a dozen monks to receive their blessing. She has ...www.washingtonpost.com
WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Obama jokes that prayer needed to resolve fiscal cliff
U.S. President Barack Obama, left, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, tour the Viharn of the Reclining Buddha with Chaokun Suthee Thammanuwat, the Dean, Faculty of Buddhism Assistant... (Associated Press) ... Obama said he ...www.newser.com
Buddhists celebrate 100 years of walking the path of enlightenment in Utah
"The Buddhist Church of America could have easily died at that point, with its headquarters shut down," said Suekawa, of Ogden.www.standard.net
Stacie Laughton, Transgender New Hampshire Representative, Discusses ...
"The campaign was pleasant," said Laughton, a Democrat newly-elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives, becoming the first openly transgender person elected to any state legislature in the U.S. "It was not vulgar. It was the way I .... A ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Letter from America: Genocide of the Rohingyas of Myanmar – Part 2 All Over ...
The Arakan state, which per estimates made by Dr. Shwe Lu Maung alias Shahnewaz Khan, in his book - The Price of Silence: Muslim-Buddhist War of Bangladesh and Myanmar - a Social Darwinist's Analysis - had probably as many Rohingya Muslims as ...www.asiantribune.com
Tibet Is the Test of China's Rise
The tour will attract a lot of attention throughout the region, but especially in Tibet. Mr. Obama will visit Cambodia and Thailand, two predominantly Buddhist countries, and will be the first sitting American president to visit Burma, also a majority ...online.wsj.com
In Search of Happy Buddha
Americans are familiar with Maitreya's image: it is the fat, gold Buddha commonly depicted in American-Chinese restaurants.www.chinadaily.com.cn
Investigating the Integration of Buddhism into Western Culture
The two were intertwined and mixed together so that some American devotees thought they had to somehow "become Asian" in order to absorb Buddhism and become Buddhists. Many of the early monks who arrived in the West (some newcomers today, too) ...www.asiantribune.com
Wives of Japanese Toyota workers bring Shinto way of life [Northeast ...
"For instance, when a child is born, they are usually blessed with a Shinto ceremony, but funerals are carried out in the Buddhist style." When Kikuchi married an American man, they held the ceremony in the American tradition, complete with church ...www.equities.com
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