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Mindfulness and the Brain
I like being able to point to non-religious sources for why meditation works when people ask me why I chose Buddhism or why I meditate.... (Beliefnet.com)
Dalai Lama says Tawang visit is to teach, not find successor
Tawang is home to one of the largest monasteries of his Gelugpa sect of Buddhism. Local leaders invited him to teach and dedicate a new hospital... (Bloomberg)
- Dalai Lama says China overpoliticizing his travels (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
In its emphasis on the doctrine of no self, Asian Buddhism has traditionally avoided any recognition of Western concerns with soul or individual development... (SF Chronicle)
Lankan PM: India, Sri Lanka relations aeons old
I thank the Chief Minister for chalking out a plan to provide land for opening a university related to Buddhism. Speaking on the occasion, Chief Minister... (Central Chronicle)
- Sanchi Pilgrims Rest to Open by Sri Lankan Prime Minister (Asian Tribune)
US schoolboy anointed as reincarnation of Buddhist high priest
A US schoolboy has been anointed in India as the reincarnation of a Buddhist high priest who died over 750 years ago. Jigme Wangchuk, from Boston... (Belfast Telegraph)
- 11-yr-old to head Buddhist sect (Times of India)
- Boy from US becomes Darjeeling lama (TopNews)
According to Us Weekly, the New York Yankees baseball player, who is rumored to be converting to Buddhism for his... (Newspost Online)
- Rodriguez "has centaur self-portraits" (Digital Spy)
- Kate Hudson and Alex Rodriguez "Share love of sex" (Showbiz Spy)
- Report: Hudson brags about A-Rod sex (MyFox Philadelphia)
Harrison, like 95 percent of native Thais, is a Buddhist of the Theravada school. Thai Buddhism is based on the religious movement founded in the sixth... (Flesh and Stone)
The Dalai is god in Tawang, his writ is law
The original monastery, built in 1681 by Merak Lama, a Tibetan Buddhist disciple, has been replaced by a new building. The prayer hall is dominated by a... (Times of India)
- The monks and the military (Times of India)
- The burden of being Dalai Lama (Times of India)
Kate Hudson's Buddhist influence on A-Rod
As their relationship continues to blossom, it seems Kate Hudson has been turning Alex Rodriguez on to her Buddhist beliefs. The “How to Lose a Guy in 10... (The Gossip Girls blog)
- People: Kate Hudson converting A-Rod to Buddhism? (Denver Post)
- Us Wrap: A-Rod to Convert to Buddhism for Kate Hudson? (Us Magazine)
- Alex Rodriguez to convert to Buddhism for Kate Hudson (AceShowbiz blog)
VARANASI, India: On the day the city celebrates Kartik Purnima, Nov. 2, Buddhists from different parts of the country and abroad will assemble... (Times of India)
It is a call, naturally for those who wish to learn Buddhism systematically and in depth, to Buddhist Social Workers and to Buddhist monks and nuns.... (Sunday Times.lk)
Religious freedom across the world
Laos, while ostensibly without a state religion, financially supports the practice of Buddhism over all other forms of worship with legal exemptions for... (Examiner.com) Novinite.com
- Religious freedom yet to be won in Burma: new report (Mizzima.com)
When people ask me how they should begin studying Buddhism, I reply that one must begin by learning about oneself. In Pali, the ancient language which the... (Daily Press)
The book is the outcome of decades of encounters with Buddhism — and of strug-gles with his own faith. Born in 1939, Mr. Knitter began his path to the... (NY Times) "Science & Buddhism Collide": a talk...
Buddhism has had a long a long histiory of intense probing intoBuddhism has had a long history of intense probing into the true nature of reality both at... (Citizen Matters)
PTI New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has dismissed a petition challenging the Tibetan origin of the 17th Karmapa, head of Kagyu sect of Buddhism and alleging... (Daily News & Analysis)
Keats-Shelley prize goes to Buddhist poet
The Keats-Shelley prize, an annual award for the best poem on a Romantic theme, has for the first time this year gone to an explicitly Buddhist poet... (guardian.co.uk)
In particular they focused on the Buddhist arts of Japan. Buddhism was a vital source for the Theosophists, seen as an antidote to the Christian materialism... (Times Colonist)
"Things Bogans Like" website celebrates Australia's new-age bogan
"What better way to announce one's entry into the knowledge economy than by purchasing a Buddhism-themed figurine, statue or water feature from the garden... (NEWS.com.au)
US condemns Vietnam's treatment of activists
Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese born, France-based Buddhist who has popularized Buddhism in the west and sold millions of books worldwide.... (AP)
Of nomads and settlers -- the song of the silk road
Established in 366 AD by a monk called Lie Zun, these clusters of caves are the earliest, and arguably the most impressive repository of Buddhist art in the... (SF Chronicle)
BEIJING -- China's famous Palace Museum has launched a research center for the study of Tibetan Buddhism by using its rich collection of... (Xinhua)
- Palace Museum to display Tibetan Buddhist relics (China Daily)
- 1st seminar on Buddhist aesthetic held in Beijing (People's Daily Online)
Everybody is welcome to the sessions, which begin at 7 pm, from practicing Buddhists to those who want to learn about Buddhism, which members prefer to call ... (Bethany Beach Wave)
But he was still a Westerner who could not yet entirely embrace Buddhism's dispassionate acceptance of misfortune. Frustration set in, for instance... (The Gazette, Montreal)
Leaders see threat to Buddhism
LEADING Buddhist intellectuals and civil society groups have called on the government to address a recent outbreak of offences ranging from drunkenness to... (Phnom Penh Post)
India's Sikkim looking to attract Buddhist tourists from SE Asia
It is hoping to capitalise on its location to attract visitors on a Buddhist circuit tour, especially tourists from Southeast Asia.... (Channel News Asia)
Easy, attractive guide to the Sutta Nipata Sermons
While Dr. Susunaga Weeraperuma had been inspired from his childhood to learn about Buddhism as it is generally known to a Buddhist society, in adulthood he... (Sunday Times.lk)
COLUMBIA — On Monday afternoon, three Tibetan Buddhist monks in saffron robes were hunched over a table on the second floor of MU's Ellis Library.... (Columbia Missourian)
The RZA, was interviewed about Buddhism, Right Speech and the Heart Sutra for the Shambhala Sun blog by my good friend Rod Meade Sperry.... (Beliefnet.com)
Dancing Skeletons Anyone?
One only need to look at past forum questions to find answers from clergy representing Islam, Buddhism, Judaism as well as other religions.... (Lawrence Journal World)
