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How Buddhism could be a way out of the environmental mess we are in | Jo Confino

The Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh has turned his attention to how Buddhism could help ecology.

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Related Topix: Religion, New-Age, Thich Nhat Hanh

Wed Sep 01, 2010

The New Zealand Herald

Silk Road: Monk's quest ends at place of peace

The temple of a famous Buddhist reconciles tensions between communism and religion, writes Jim Eagles.

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Related Topix: Travel, China Travel, Xian, China Travel, Religion

BellaOnline

Vipassana or Insight Meditation

Vipassana is a Pali word that means 'insight into reality' or 'to see things as they really are'. In reference to Buddhism, it refers both to a form of meditation, and to a specific movement within contemporary Buddhism.

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Tricycle

Religious sex scandals: Are they all the same?

Jessica Miller writes on Killing the Buddha : Those of you who thought Buddhism was still the proverbial last righteous man in Sodom might be disappointed to read August 20th's New York Times .

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Related Topix: Religion, Sex Scandal, Publishing, New York Times

Tricycle

Dennis Hunter, historical consciousness, and the speed of Buddhism's transition to the West

Dennis Hunter, historical consciousness, and the speed of Buddhism's transition to the West August 31, 2010 When we ask, "What shape will Buddhism take in the West?" most of us are bringing a historical consciousness to the question; we recognize that Buddhism has reinvented itself everywhere that it has gone in order to most effectively suit the ...

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Tricycle

The Power of an Open Question - One with Everything?

Posted by Philip Ryan in : Buddhism , Tibetan Buddhism , food , trackback When we don't yet have a direct experience of interdependence and boundarylessness things can get a little abstract and vague.

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Related Topix: Religion

Metro Times

Read Remembering Ron Allen in Remembering Ron Allen

"Ron was one of the heroic figures of the Cass Corridor in the '70s and '80s," wrote one fellow poet, Tyrone Williams, at an online discussion board.

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Related Topix: Detroit, MI, Religion, Arts, Poetry

Sun Aug 29, 2010

The Huffington Post

Lodro Rinzler: Buddhism and Alcohol: Is There Such a Thing as 'Right Drinking'?

Many people look to Siddhartha Gautama as an example of someone who attained nirvana, a buddha.

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TrekEarth

Om Mani Padme Hum

The term Mani stone may also be used in a loose sense to refer to stones on which any mantra or devotional designs are inscribed.

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Sat Aug 28, 2010

The Star Online

Weighing the death penalty

Malaysia's efforts to seek clemency for Yong Vui Kong, who is on death row in Singapore for a drug trafficking offence, have raised questions about maintaining capital punishment in the country.

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Related Topix: Death Penalty, Religion, Activism, South Korea, World News

TamilNet Newswire

Sri Lanka: Politicising religious reformation

A group of Buddhist monks marched in protest and when prevented, the angry monks sat on the road and refused to move until the ritual was over.

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Fri Aug 27, 2010

The Star Online

Of tourists & politics

Tibet is a place steeped in Buddhism and spirituality, but politics is never far behind.

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Hindustan Times

Riding easy on Buddhism

First Published: 19:14 IST Last Updated: 01:01 IST What is the favourite subject of most of the Delhi University Students Union candidates, especially those belonging to the two major parties, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad and National Studenta s Union Of India ? It has to be MA in Buddhist Studies.

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Related Topix: Religion

Tricycle

At the Tricycle Book Club

For the August discussion we're reading Freeing the Body, Freeing the Mind , a collection of essays exploring the connections between Yoga and Buddhism.

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Related Topix: Fitness, Yoga, Religion

Tricycle

5 recent quotes from Thich Nhat Hanh in today's Guardian

Posted by James Shaheen in : Buddhism , Buddhist Teachings , Environment , Meditation , Mindfulness , Tricycle , Zen , trackback In the current issue of Tricycle , contributing editor Andrew Cooper recounts his travels with Thich Nhat Hanh, the much beloved Vietnamese teacher, poet, peace advocate and environmentalist.

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Related Topix: Thich Nhat Hanh, New-Age, Religion

Tricycle

The Power of an Open Question - How beautiful

Posted by Philip Ryan in : Buddhism , Environment , Tibetan Buddhism , trackback Many years ago, when we first moved to Colorado, Dzigar Kongrul Rinpoche and I were driving on a winding mountain pass in the Rockies.

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Asahi Shimbun

What's On: EXHIBITIONS

"Nara's Ancient Temples and Buddhist Statues" exhibits 45 Buddhist statues and 19 artifacts owned by 19 historic temples in Nara, including Horyuji, Todaiji, Yakushiji and Kofukuji.

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Related Topix: Religion, World News, Japan, Painting, Arts, Asia

China Daily

Ancient Buddhist center offers blessed relief

Enlightenment calls, even though it is 37 C under the mid-afternoon sun and sweat rolls off people's foreheads as if they are in a sauna.

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Thu Aug 26, 2010

PressConnects.com

South Hill Buddhist monastery work continues

The economic downturn has slowed but not stopped progress on the new Tibetan Buddhist Namgyal Monastery on South Hill.

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Related Topix: South Hill, NY, Ithaca, NY, Religion

The National

The age of Maitreya has arrived

ACCORDING to Buddhist cosmology, the Buddha's teaching will last 5,000 years before it goes into extinction.

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