Huff Post: T. Sher Singh. I, for one, would welcome some prayer, any prayer, even the Lord’s Prayer — a Christian observance — in preference to NO prayer. All I can say to my friend is this: Closed minds can do much harm to us all. Let’s open them — […]
Buddhist students campaign for Borobudur preservation REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, MAGELANG – Buddhist students campaigned for preservation of Borobudur Temple on the sidelines of Vesak 2557 BE (2013) celebration in Borobudur Sub-district, Magelang […]
By contributing writer Vidushi Sharma for KidSpirit’s Money and Value issue. This June, if you’d walked into the last KidSpirit Editorial Board meeting of the year, you would have seen a group of kids widely ranging in age. Some of us had cookies and milk in our hands; others were […]
Bali festivals showcase interfaith bonding …………. Pointing to the recent incident where the Islamic Defender’s Front pressured the closure of three Ahmadiyah mosques in West Java, Suratna stated “ We […]
NY Times: BUSSY SAINT-GEORGES, France — Set above a sweep of green farmland, the crumbling stone chapel at the center of this village met the spiritual requirements of its Roman […]
Source: BBC Every year, a project called V-Star Change the World brings schoolchildren to a Buddhist temple in Thailand for a day of meditation. Organisers claim that one million children attended the most recent event at the Phra Dhammakaya temple near Bangkok. The temple has attracted controversy in the past, […]
Huff Post: Adapted from THE WISDOM OF COMPASSION: Stories of Remarkable Encounters and Timeless Insights by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Victor Chan by arrangement with Riverhead Books, a member […]
Source: Amnesty International. The perpetrators of arson attacks on temples and Buddhist villages in the south of Bangladesh must be brought to justice and steps taken to ensure ethnic minorities are protected, Amnesty International said. More than 20 Buddhist temples and monasteries and at least one Hindu temple, along with […]
Source: The Daily Star Inam Ahmed and Julfikar Ali Manik, from Ramu, Cox’s Bazar The Buddha statues made of gold are lost forever. The intrinsic designs of Khadi wood are lost in the inferno. The Tripitak is lost too. But for Shreemad Satyapriya Mohathero, who had just turned 83, the […]
Source: CNN News From Farid Ahmed (CNN) — Crowds of angry Muslims attacked Buddhist shrines and homes, torching some of them Sunday in Bangladesh to protest after a photo of a partially burned Quran was posted on Facebook, police said. The protesters chanted anti-Buddhist slogans, blaming the burning of the Muslim […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Jeffrey Small: Author, ‘The Breath of God’ We fear what we do not understand. Creating opportunities for those of different faiths to interact can reveal that […]
Huff Post:By Dominique Mosbergen. On Monday, His Holiness the Dalai Lama took to Facebook to tell his four million friends that “religion is no longer adequate.” The Tibetan religious leader was quoting from a book he published last year, entitled “Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World,” in which he argues that […]
First something about the big picture, atheists are right in exposing the irrationality of the Christian dogma. However, the Christians are right in as far as their claim that there needs […]
(Reuters) – Chief Abbess Manchen Shih gazed through a first-floor window of her vast wood and concrete temple as shaven-headed nuns in mustard robes prepared for midday prayers, cooking rice […]
Huff Post: Andrew Lam For a country steeped in Buddhism, Myanmar is accruing terrible karmic debts. Alarming news and images of attacks and killings by the Buddhist majority in Rakhine Province against a Muslim minority there have been slowly trickling out onto the Internet and the wider world. Pictures of […]
Source: OnIslam & Newspapers Muslim and Buddhist groups in India called Tuesday, July 17, for the Indian government to intervene to end the ongoing atrocities committed against Muslims in neighboring Myanmar. “There are continuous news reports of atrocities and killing of ethnic Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar which has caused a […]
Huff Post It is always hard when people die. No matter what the situation, it seems impossible to deal with the fact that someone you were close to will no longer be around. Although there is no one way to get over this, people have developed ways to make it […]
Source: 7News PATTANI, Thailand (AFP) – A shared passion for football is uniting Buddhists and Muslims in Thailand’s restive south, where grassroots efforts to find elusive peace are gaining ground […]
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Huff Post What do you get for the man who has attained perfect enlightenment? That depends on where in the world you are celebrating. Buddha’s birthday, known as Vesak Day (or Wesak), is celebrated on various dates in the spring throughout the world, and each Buddhist culture has its own traditions for […]