China Executes 2 Tibetans For The Roles In 2008 Riots
BEIJING -- Two people have been put to death for their roles in deadly protests last year in the Chinese-controlled region of Tibet, the first known e...
BEIJING -- Two people have been put to death for their roles in deadly protests last year in the Chinese-controlled region of Tibet, the first known e...
Lisa Napoli | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
Wednesday nights, I visit Kusala -- not your average bald, quiet monk. He is a large, friendly, open man, a forceful presence, and he leads us in a discussion of Starsky and Hutch.
Huffington Post | Posted 08.06.2009 | World
In the tradition of a cliche genre of jokes, the forthcoming Turkish game show, Penitents Compete, will pit a Greek Orthodox priest, an imam, a rabbi ...
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 07.19.2009 | Chicago
15 years since bringing us the critically acclaimed documentary Hoop Dreams, Frederick Marx is again giving us the opportunity to study how people sacrifice in order to gain.
New York Times | Posted 06.07.2009 | World
If the rest of the world cannot get it right in these unhappy times, this tiny Buddhist kingdom high in the Himalayan mountains says it is working on ...
Paul Raushenbush | Posted 01.26.2009 | Politics
10. Jews feel the financial and image pain of Wall Streeter Bernie Madoff as his money lies damage Yeshiva University and Elie Weisel as well as sma...
Treehugger | Lloyd Alter | Posted 12.04.2008 | Green
Fifty years ago the Heineken Beer company looked at reshaping its beer bottle to be useful as a building block. It never happened, so Buddhist monks f...
nytimes.com | Norimitsu Onishi | Posted 07.22.2008 | Living
OGA, Japan -- The Japanese have long taken an easygoing, buffetlike approach to religion, ringing out the old year at Buddhist temples and welcoming t...
Rebecca Novick | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics
Since March, the monks of Kirti have not been allowed to conduct their usual Buddhist rituals, but on May 15th, they received special permission to make an exception.
Wall Street Journal | James Hookway | Posted 04.15.2008 | Business
To the list of speculative market bubbles popping around the world, add this: Thai religious talismans. Last year, prices for the small discs inscrib...
BBC News | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Campaigners in 30 cities around the world are staging a series of rallies against the bloody crackdown on anti-government protests in Burma. The marc...
BBC | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Thousands of monks detained in Burma's main city of Rangoon will be sent to prisons in the far north of the country, sources have told the BBC. About...
AP | By HENRY SANDERSON | Posted 10.27.2009 | World