Hurricane Sandy Buddhist Response Includes Mindfulness Chaplains, Storm ...
Yet in addition to the fundraising, helping hands and prayers offered by many faith-based groups, Buddhists are making use of meditation and "mindfulness," a spiritual practice with origins in Buddhism that's focused on centering and grounding people ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Ethnic Cleansing of the Rohingyas of Myanmar: Part 2
The worst criminals in this extermination campaign are, however, the fellow Rakhine Buddhists, whose ancestors settled in Arakan beginning in the 11th century, i.e.www.salem-news.com
Tibetans protests against Chinese rule after another self-immolation
Harold Mandel, Syracuse Buddhism Examiner. Harold Mandel is a Buddhist who has earned a medical degree (MD) and who feels spiritual awareness is an essential component of overall good health.www.examiner.com
Indigo Blue closure questioned
Two weeks after the University ended its nine-year relationship with Indigo Blue - a nonprofit center for Buddhist life at Yale - students remain upset over its abrupt termination and the administration's decision to cut ties with the program's ...www.yaledailynews.com
Buddhist monk is the world's happiest man
Buddhist monk is the world's happiest man. Tibetan monk and molecular geneticist Matthieu Ricard is the happiest man in the world according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin.india.nydailynews.com
Aung San Suu Kyi, the Rohingya of Burma and the challenge of faith
Three-and-a-half months after some of the bloodiest clashes in a generation between Myanmar's ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and stateless Muslims known as Rohingya left the western town of Sittwe in flames, nobody is quite sure when -or even if- the ...www.washingtonpost.com
Zizek waxes on about Zionism, Sex, Gangnam Style, Justin Bieber, the Pope ...
And while he twice notes his appreciation for Buddhism, especially Zen, which he calls the most honest form of Buddhism, I would caution anyone from taking him as an expert - or even genuinely knowledgeable - on the topic. He cites some authors here ...www.patheos.com
Buddhists celebrate 100 years of walking the path of enlightenment in Utah
OGDEN - A few decades after Mormon pioneers fled religious persecution and settled in Utah, another group arrived to seek work while holding strong to its ancient beliefs.www.standard.net
Buddhist Meditations to Ease Chronic Pain
What it really means is daily pain and fatigue and weakness. Buddhism speaks directly about suffering. And it tells us we have a choice: to suffer or to do something to reduce that suffering.www.huffingtonpost.com
Buddhists launch bid to build temple in city
Monks and Buddhists from Thailand, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Burma, Tibet and the UK gathered at Netherhall School yesterday to mark the founding of Buddha Metta Cambridge.www.cambridge-news.co.uk
Can Buddhism Help Christians Strengthen Their Christian Faith?
As a practicing Buddhist and former Catholic with a degree in Catholic Theology, I was delighted to witness such an event and hear such an invitation.www.huffingtonpost.com
Asian Philosophies And The "New Age"
Watts brought out the core of insights from beneath the layerings of cultural ornamentation that most Westerners see when facing Vedanta, Mahayana Buddhism, Taoism, and Zen, and he presented these liberating ideas in a way that made them relevant to ...www.swans.com
This Week's Web Picks: film: studying is believing; macrocosmic Buddhism; the ...
They like to read about them, their audiences and makers and parts. They like old movies, or obscure or foreign ones. They even sometimes major in them.www.annarbor.com
Buddhist ceremonies take place at Grey Roots
On a seven-day visit to Owen Sound, the monk from southeast Asia guides people on retreats at his suburban Longmont, Colorado home, in which he also runs Drukpa Mila Buddhist Centre, one of some 35 to 40 Buddhism centres in Colorado, he said.www.owensoundsuntimes.com
Buddhist chapel shut down
Last week, the University ended its nine-year relationship with Indigo Blue, a nonprofit center for Buddhist life at Yale, and its director Bruce Blair '81, said University Chaplain Sharon Kugler in a Friday email to the News.www.yaledailynews.com
Buddhist monks march in Myanmar to thwart Islamic office plan
YANGON (Reuters) - Thousands of Buddhist monks marched in Myanmar's two biggest cities on Monday to protest against efforts by the world's biggest Islamic body to help Rohingya Muslims involved in deadly communal clashes four months ago.news.yahoo.com
'Space buddha' statue may be a fake
A supposed Buddhist statue allegedly carved from a meteorite 1,000 years ago may not be as ancient as suspected, according to a Buddhism expert who argues that the statue may be a 20th-century fake. The criticisms don't target the material the statue ...www.foxnews.com
Is Cloud Atlas about Karma and Rebirth?
Whether a person follows Buddhist teachings, has a meditation practice, or dives into the ocean of samsara head on, we are all in this together!www.examiner.com
Buddhist monk is happiest man
"Eschewing intimate relationships and a career, he moved to India to study Buddhism and emerged 26 years later as something of celebrity thanks to "The Monk And The Philosopher", a dialogue on the meaning of life he wrote with his father.www.bangkokpost.com
SARNA: A threat to all of us
Though many a Buddhist might disagree, I am not a Buddhist. My religious practice and spiritual well-being were in no direct way hindered by the eviction of Indigo Blue from Yale.www.yaledailynews.com
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