| Buddhism can help end suffering, Jet Li says by The Record, Sept 23, 2006 |
"I would like to spend more of my energy practising Buddhism and helping younger Chinese people to understand life,'' he told the San Francisco Chronicle. "When people commit suicide, they cause 10 people to suffer. So this is causing millions and millions of people to suffer.''
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| Relics stolen from Patna Museum by Ambarish Dutta, Tribune News Service Patna, September 26 |
In a daring late-night robbery on Monday in Patna Museum, located in the heart of the city, unidentified miscreants stole 18 statues of Buddhist and Jain eras worth crores of rupees.
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| Pakistan to host world Budhist assembly next year, says Nilofer by International News Network, Sept 27, 2006 |
TOKYO: Federal Tourism Minister Nilofer Bakhtiar has said that Pakistan would host a World Buddhist Assembly next year and hoped that large number of Japanese tourists would also visit Pakistan on this occasion.
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| Four Buddhists shot dead in unrest by www.theaustralian.news.com.au From correspondents in Yala, Thailand September 27, 2006 |
SUSPECTED Islamic militants today shot dead four Buddhists in two separate attacks in Thailand's mainly Muslim south, where an insurgency has raged for more than two years, police said.
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| 18 priceless Buddha statues stolen from Indian museum by The Associated Press September 27, 2006 |
PATNA, India Indian authorities on Wednesday alerted Interpol after 18 priceless bronze Buddha statues were stolen from a museum located meters (yards) from a police station, police said.
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| Shaolin abbot: monks should learn English, computers by Yao Runping, www.chinaview.cn 2006-09-27 12:34:42 |
BEIJING, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- Shaolin monks should study English and information technology to adapt to the modern society and spread Buddhism and Shaolin culture around the world, according to the abbot of the Shaolin temple, the birthplace of Kung Fu.
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| Vietnamese monk wins Norwegian human rights prize by Reuters, Thursday, September 21, 2006; 8:16 AM |
OSLO (Reuters) - A Norwegian human rights body, which has four times anticipated the choice of the Nobel Peace Prize winner with its own award, chose a Vietnamese monk on Thursday to receive its annual prize.
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| Cambodian religious officials dismayed at theft of ancient statue by Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa, September 27, 2006 |
Phnom Penh- The daring theft of a 13th-century bronze Buddha statue from one of Cambodia's most important pagodas was an attack on the nation's culture of Khmer Rouge proportions, the nation's most venerable Buddhist monk said Wednesday. Supreme Patriach Tep Vong said by telephone that the theft had robbed the country of an important piece of its heritage and was a direct attack on the Buddhist religion by the perpetrators.
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| The Rafto Prize 2006 for Vietnamese human rights defender by The Buddhist Channel, Sept 27, 2006 |
Bergen, Norway -- The board of the Rafto Foundation has decided to award the 2006 Professor Thorolf Rafto memorial Prize to one of Vietnam’s most prominent defenders of democracy, religious freedom and human rights: Venerable Thich Quang Do. He receives the prize for his personal courage and perseverance through three decades of peaceful opposition against the communist regime in Vietnam, and as a symbol for the growing democracy movement in the country.
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| Island is now home to a second Buddhist temple by LESLIE PALMA-SIMONCEK, Saturday, September 30, 2006 |
World Maitreya Karuna Foundation has established its United States headquarters here
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