By, Uwe Paschen. It is Chiba Day here in Narita, Chiba, Japan. Tomorrow my wife will not have to go and teach in Narita and I have no field work due to much rain and flooding nor any meetings in Tokyo. In...
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Buddhist Declaration on Climate Change ~Sign the Buddhist Declaration~ 'The time has surely come when we must speak out as Buddhists, with firm views of harmony as the Tao.I suggest that it is also time for us to take ourselves in hand…This would be engaged Buddhism...
CWN.org - Buddhist mobs attacked several churches in Sri Lanka two weeks ago, threatening to kill a pastor in the southern province of Hambanthota and ransacking a 150-year-old Methodist church building in the...
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By, Uwe Paschen. Today is Hinamatsury, here in Japan. This is the Japanese Doll Festival (雛祭り Hina-matsuri), or Girls' Day, Hinamatsuri is held on March 3, the third day of the third month. A Platforms with a...
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His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, the current and spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, delivered a speech in Dharmsala, India on Tuesday, March 10, 2009, on the 50th anniversary the Tibetan uprising against...
A Buddist Temple inthe northeast of Thailand has been built using only recycled beer bottles. The Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple got their bottles from the nearby community and they had already built shelters in this...
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" By Dr. Perwazekhudi Dispute on this issue has been going on throughout the world, especially since 9/11. The world’s leading Scholars, thinkers and politicians, have not yet; come UP with a one Single most definition of terrorism or terrorist which will be acceptable to...
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"KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 15 (UPI) -- A Buddhist leader said two statues at Missouri's Kansas City Zoo that sparked a complaint from a patron are not images of Buddha, but of a pot-bellied Ho Tai. Lama Chuck...
I am always uplifted by this time of year because it reminds me of just how much all the religions of the world have in common. Almost every major religion has some sort of winter festival taking place...
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Unlike the violent path full of blood bath their neighbour took to democracy in Nepal, The royals in Bhutan took steps to democracy and former king began the democratic reform process in 2005. The small...
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" She will be worshipped by Hindus and Buddhists as an incarnation of the powerful Hindu deity Taleju. A panel of judges conducted a series of ancient ceremonies to select the goddess from several 2- to...
For a state that eschewed religion for decades, faith in Russia has had more than its fair share of problems.The religious make-up of Russia is close to that of many countries in the West - traditionally...
"The history : Tenggerese live around Bromo Mountain, East Java. They are the descendants of the Majapahit princes. Most of the entire population is centered in thirty villages in the isolated Tengger mountains...
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