| Buddhist holy tree vandalized in India by Bangkok Post, July 20, 2006 |
New Delhi, India -- A group of unknown miscreants cut off a branch from a 110-year-old Buddhist holy tree in India's eastern Bihar state, news reports said Thursday.
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| Swiss documentary on Afghanistan: Pakistani, Saudi engineers helped destroy Buddhas by By Khalid Hasan, Daily Times, March 19, 2006 |
WASHINGTON, USA -- The Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan were destroyed by the Taliban with the help of Pakistani and Saudi engineers.
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| Fasting Buddha at Lahore Museum attracts Japanese aid by by Shoaib Ahmed, Daily Times, Nov 12, 2004 |
LAHORE, Pakistan -- Nobuaki Tanaka, the Japanese ambassador to Pakistan has agreed during a visit to the Lahore Museum in October, to provide technical know-how to the museum, museum sources told the Daily Times on Thursday.
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| Monks to be trained in conservation of Buddhist sites by Press Trust of India, Jan 17, 2005 |
New Delhi, India -- The growing pressure of tourism on Buddhist sites in India has stirred cultural organisations to train monks and local communities in heritage conservation by developing preventive conservation skills.
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| Little hope for Afghanistan's Bamiyan Buddhas by Indo-Asian News Service, February 27, 2006 |
Kabul, Afghanistan -- There was universal outrage - even in the Muslim world - when the Taliban made good their threat to destroy the Bamiyan Buddhas in an act of religious piety on March 1 five years ago.
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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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| Making sacred space for women by Bangkok Post, Outlook, Sunday July 30, 2006 |
There is a growing army of female Buddhist practitioners. From the age-old but often marginalised Mae Chi to establishment-defying revival of Bhikkhuni ordination, more and more women are asserting their rightful place in the Theravada tradition of Buddhism.
In between these two are initiatives to recruit and train women under specific regiments and with different labels. The Dharma-mata group at Suan Mokkh forest monastery in Chaiya is one such example. In England, the two branches of Wat Nong Pah Pong, at Amaravati and Chit-hurst (also called Cittaviveka), have set up the Order of Siladhara, which has been growing slowly but steadily over the last two decades.
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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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| Local politician backs Buddhist temple scheme by The Scotsman, July 7, 2006 |
Edinburgh, Scotland -- LOCAL MSP Sarah Boyack today backed plans to transform a derelict Old Town church into a Buddhist spiritual centre.
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| Expansion of University of Buddhism in Mandalay by Zaygwet Journal (Myanmar Language) |
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