Buddhist Monks

China Executes 2 Tibetans For The Roles In 2008 Riots

AP | By HENRY SANDERSON | Posted 10.27.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Monks, Tibetan Minority, Olympics, Tibet, Xinhua, International Campaign for Tibet, Han Chinese, Executions, Human Rights Watch, Han Majority, Buddhist, Executed, Death Penalty, China Riots, Arson, Buddhism, Migrants, Buddhist Monks, China, Xinjiang, Lhasa, World News

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...

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Media Monk

Lisa Napoli | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: David Soul, Nuns, Buddhist Monks, Star Trek, International Buddhist Meditation Center, Los Angeles, Koreatown, Living News
Lisa Napoli

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.

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Penitents Compete: Turkish Game Show's Religious Contestants Compete To Convert Atheists

Huffington Post | Posted 08.06.2009 | World

Read More: Game Shows, Islam, Turkey, Judaism, Greek Orthodoxy, Foreign Affairs, Imam, Priest, Penitents Compete, Religion, Greek Orthodox Church, Buddhism, Buddhist Monks, Advocacy, Rabbi, World News

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 ...

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Hoop Dreams Filmmaker Makes The Journey From Zanskar Via Chicago

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 07.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Michael Fitzpatrick, Zanskar Movie, Dalai Lama, Journey From Zanskar, Hoop Dreams, Gates-Agee-Hoop-Dreams, Tibet, Frederick Marx, Zanskar, Buddhism, China Tibet, Buddhist Monks, Harold Ramis, Chicago News
Esther J. Cepeda

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.

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Gross National Happiness Gets Renewed Focus During Global Crisis

New York Times | Posted 06.07.2009 | World

Read More: Bhutan King, Religion, Buddhist, Foreign Affairs, Bhutan, Global Financial Crisis, Asia, Buddhism, Buddhist Monks, Global Economic Crisis, Advocacy, World News

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 ...

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The Ten Worst Religious Stories of 2008

Paul Raushenbush | Posted 01.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Prosperity Gospel, Religion, Hunger, Buddhist Monks Mynamar, Barack Obama, Terrorism, Sarah Palin, Mumbai Attacks, Religion and Politics, Jeremiah Wright, China Tibet, Bernie Madoff, Buddhist Monks, National Press Club, Islamists, Politics News
Paul Raushenbush

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...

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Buddhist Temple Built From Beer Bottles

Treehugger | Lloyd Alter | Posted 12.04.2008 | Green

Read More: Green Building, Religion, Buddhist Beer Temple, Green Living, Beer Bottle Temple, Temple Made of Beer Bottles, Buddhist Monks, Green News

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...

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Is Japan's Buddhism Dying Out?

nytimes.com | Norimitsu Onishi | Posted 07.22.2008 | Living

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OGA, Japan -- The Japanese have long taken an easygoing, buffetlike approach to religion, ringing out the old year at Buddhist temples and welcoming t...

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Tibetan Monks Sealed in Monastery in Sichuan Request Permission to Pray for Chinese Quake Victims

Rebecca Novick | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Monastery, Demonstration, Tibet, Protest, Earthquake, China, Chinese, Kirti, Tibetan, Dharamsala, Dalai Lama, Tibet Protests, Buddhist Monks, Politics News
Rebecca Novick

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.

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Even Thai Talismans Hit By Credit Crunch

Wall Street Journal | James Hookway | Posted 04.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Thai Religious Talismans, Buddhist Talismans, Credit Crunch, Buddhist Monks, Talistman Industry, Thai Amulets, Amulet Sales, FInancial Markets, Business News

To the list of speculative market bubbles popping around the world, add this: Thai religious talismans. Last year, prices for the small discs inscrib...

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Global Protests Target Burma Military Junta

BBC News | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Burma Junta, Myanmar Monks, Burma Monks, Burma, Buddhist Monks, Myanmar, Home News

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...

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4,000 Disrobed And Shackled Burmese Monks Detained By Junta, To Be "Sent Away"

BBC | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Burma, Buddhist Monks, Myanmar, Home News

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...

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