| A bigger economy doesn't always buy happiness by Eric Weiner, Los Angeles Times, November 13, 2006 |
I think we Americans could embrace something similar — not as a replacement for more traditional measures but as a supplement. I can envision a day in the not-too-distant future when a happiness index scrolls alongside GDP and stock prices on your cable screen. Sound strange? Flaky? No stranger — or flakier — than pinning our hopes and dreams to a statistic that tallies oil spills and wars on the plus side of the ledger.
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| A Buddhist Perspective of Leadership & Management by by Shen Shi'an, The Buddhist Channel, July 20, 2006 |
Singapore -- The historical Buddha was an incomparable leader in many aspects. Without any human weaknesses, he shone as a complete embodiment of virtue, an example of what we all can be.
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| A Buddhist temple in Russia celebrates 10th founding anniversary by Report sent by the Tibet Culture & Information Centre, Moscow Tibet.net[Tuesday, October 17, 2006 ] |
Dharamshala: Gaden Shedrup Choekhorling, the main Buddhist temple in Elista, Kalmykia, turned 10 on 6 October 2006 and the day was declared as a national holiday by the President of Kalmykia.
The main Buddhist temple was opened on 5 October 1996 and consecrated by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on 30 November 2004.
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| A Buddhist's curse to Islamists' bigotry by by Asoka Weerasinghe, Asian Tribune, Feb 15, 2006 |
Bangkok, Thailand -- Asoka Weerasinghe reminds the Muslim world, the blasting of The Bamiyan Buddhas in the Bamiyan Valley, Afghanistan, by the Islamic fundamentalists in 2001, that stood for 23 centuries.
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| A Community of One by Sati Saraniya |
Sunday, April 30, 2006
I had long wished to be a hermit. Now, in these times of despondency, I visualised the faces of my spiritual companions far away and felt unequal to eremetic life.
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| A deeper sense of happiness by Pankaj MISHRA, Time Asia, March 14, 2007 |
Buddhism teaches that the mind, not the wallet, is the path to contentment
San Francisco, USA -- WALKING out of a Buddhist bookstore in San Francisco early this month, I heard from the radio of a passing car the voice of U.S. President George W. Bush giving his annual State of the Union speech.
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| A festival full of colour and light by Guardian-series Saturday 14th October 2006 |
CELEBRATIONS at a Buddhist Temple were a whirl of colour and light.
The Kathina Festival helped raise money for the Wat Buddharam temple in Cann Hall Road, Leytonstone, and the charity now has more than £380,000 to purchase the site and build a permanent place of worship.
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| A Frayed Knot by Sati Saraniya |
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Wise living cannot be legislated or simulated through script or form. It needs to grow from the inside, maturing when we reflect on our omissions and misjudgements – if we resolve to learn. Valuable as they are, the lessons we garner from yesterday’s choices may be inadequate, for old wisdom bears renewal and re-examination in the light of the new moment.
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| A Frayed Knot by Sati Saraniya |
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Wise living cannot be legislated or simulated through script or form. It needs to grow from the inside, maturing when we reflect on our omissions and misjudgements – if we resolve to learn. Valuable as they are, the lessons we garner from yesterday’s choices may be inadequate, for old wisdom bears renewal and re-examination in the light of the new moment.
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| A glimpse of Buddhism in ancient Bangladesh by by D P Barua, PeaceJournalism.com, Sept 26, 2005 |
It is a fact that Buddhism is the original religion of Bangladesh for more than 2000 years and has made deep impact on Bengali life culture and civilisation through centuries.
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| A Growing Buddhist Population Tests the Neighborliness of a City by CHRISTOPHER MAAG, The New York Times, April 21, 2007 |
Fort Wayne, a city of 248,000 people and 606 Christian churches, is in the midst of a Buddhist temple boom. Southeast Asians have opened six temples here in the last seven years, including one for Laotians, two for Burmese and two for Mon, another Burmese ethnic group.
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| A Little Meditation on the Bottom Line by Mary Blume International Herald Tribune,Saturday, July 8, 1995 |
Transcendental Meditation, he claims, can combat inflation and unemployment and in 1993 he announced that the efforts of 4,000 meditators cut crime in a particularly nasty part of Washington by 23.6 percent. Local police demurred, stating that the homicide rate had remained steady.
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| A monk's meditations on the pursuit of happiness by By Kyle Jarrard International Herald Tribune-June 30, 2006 |
Matthieu Ricard is a happy man and he says so emphatically in "Happiness," comparing that certainty to knowing how to read or when you are in good health: It is simply a fact.
Getting there has been a 35-year trek that began when he left a budding career in cellular genetics at the Institut Pasteur in Paris to study Buddhism in the Himalayas. But he did not retire from the world; rather, he went straight into it - mastering Tibetan, becoming the Dalai Lama's French translator, directing scores of humanitarian projects in Nepal, Bhutan and Tibet, and writing best-selling books on the meditative life.
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| A New Breed of Monk Rises in Myanmar by The Wall Street Journal |
Mr. Sitagu Sayadaw was born in 1937 in a small town in central Myanmar, then known as Burma. At age seven, he entered the local monastery to study, and by 20 years old became a Buddhist monk, taking the formal name Ashin Nanissara. He later studied Pali scripture, in which he is considered an expert, at Mandalay University.
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| A New Journey with Meditation at Clove&Clive by Chuah Ai Jou, The Buddhist Channel, Sept 25, 2006 |
Petaling Jaya, Malaysia – September 25, 2006 sees the birth of a new meditation centre, Clove&Clive in Kelana Jaya, a commercial suburb of Petaling Jaya.
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| A United Effort is in the Best Interest of Russia’s Buddhists by (Translated) Anton Cooper , savetibet.ru, November 15, 2006 |
In the early days of October, Kalmykia celebrated the tenth opening anniversary of the republic’s first Buddhist monastery: Geden Sheddup Choikorling.
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| A word from the wise by Dominique Taylor, www.vailtrail.com, Guest Column, September 20, 2006 |
A couple of weeks ago my best friend called me up to tell me Dalai Lama would be in Denver speaking and wanted to know if I would be interested in going with her.
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| All that glitters is not gold in Myanmar's political landscape by By Joe Robinson, The Los Angeles Times, August 7, 200 |
Amid Bagan's historic gilded steeples stand newer imposters thrown up in a government effort to fuel tourism despite international sanctions.
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| American Buddhism on the rise by Jane Lampman, The Christian Science Monitor, September 14, 2006 |
Cambridge, MASS. (USA) -- That genial face has become familiar across the globe - almost as recognizable when it comes to religious leaders, perhaps, as Pope John Paul II. When in America, the Dalai Lama is a sought-after speaker, sharing his compassionate message and engaging aura well beyond the Buddhist community.
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| An Overview of India’s Buddhist Movement by Vishvapani, http://www.ambedkar2006.blogspot.com/, The Buddhist Channel, Oct 9, 2006 |
According to the 2001 census there are 7.95 million Buddhists in India out of a population of 1 billion, making it the country’s fifth-largest religion. The true figure is far higher - between 20-30 million, but many do not register as Buddhists for fear of losing government concessions that are due to low-status Hindus.
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| Ancient caves with Buddhist paintings found in Nepal by ZeeNews, May 4, 2007 |
Kathmandu, Nepal -- Explorers have discovered a series of caves decorated with ancient Buddhist paintings, set in sheer cliffs in Nepal's remote Himalayan north, leaving archaeologists excited and puzzled.
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| Anger over Gujarat religion law by Rajeev Khanna, BBC News, Sept 20, 2006 |
Christians and Muslims in the western Indian state of Gujarat have expressed resentment over an amendment in the law relating to religious conversions.
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| Annie's sweet dreams of new temple by The Scotsman, July 4, 2006 |
Edinburgh, Scotland -- Scots singing star Annie Lennox has given her backing to plans to create a Buddhist temple and cultural centre in Edinburgh.
The singer wrote to a Buddhist friend to support the idea of a city temple. Ani Rinchen Khandro, has known the songwriter for 12 years. She said: "Annie's in town to receive a doctorate so it's good karma that I happen to be in [Edinburgh] at the same time. We're meeting to talk about the plans."
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| Another perspective why Buddhism went out of India by by Luz Futten, Spain, The Buddhist Channel, Jan 23, 2006 |
My comment on the article about why Buddhism did not develop in India, which I think it may open a wider window to see the real landscape, is this: Buddhism, as Jainism, etc was born from Hinduism as a way to "fight with no violence" to the ideas o f a structured hindu society by casts just by birth. The message of Buddha here is simply to tell people that you don't need to be born in the Brahman caste to dedicate to spiritual tasks.
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| Archaeologists work to salvage fragments of the giant Buddhas by Andrew Maykuth, www.myrtlebeachonline.com, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Thu, Oct. 05, 2006 |
It took Buddhist monks several decades to build the monuments 1,500 years ago. The Taliban, who declared the statues idolatrous and un-Islamic, required only a few weeks to blow them up. Five years later, experts are still making an inventory of the fragments, slowed by stoppages every half hour or so to look for buried bombs, grenades and mines.
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| Architects apprehensive over building spree around Shwedagon Pagoda by James Pitkin, The Myanmar Times |
SOME local architects are worried that a spate of new buildings near Shwedagon Pagoda will forever change the neighbourhood around the famous religious site.
Eight new buildings have sprung up in the past three years on Yae Tar Shae Old Street and Yae Tar Shae New Street, within a block of the pagoda’s east entrance.
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| Asia's spectacular monument of gratitude by Raja M, www.atimes.com Nov 1, 2006 |
Which two persons are rare in the world? One who serves others selflessly without expecting anything in return; and one who is grateful toward anyone who does one a kindness. These two persons are rare in the world. - Gotama the Buddha
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| At Auschwitz, Buddhist meditation set me free by perry garfinkel, Friday October 13, 2006 |
“I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.”
— Elie Wiesel
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| Award winning writer to embrace buddhism by Hidustan Times, Sept 24, 2006 |
Mumbai, India -- Nomadic author Laxman Mane, whose autobiography Upara (Outsider) is revered in Marathi Dalit literature, will embrace Buddhism along with lakhs of his supporters next month.
The move is expected to create ripples across Maharashtra’s religious structure and comes half a century after the framer of the Indian Constitution, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, called on the lowest Hindu castes to abandon their religion and become Buddhists.
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