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The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies awards 23 Scholars and Institutions
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMThe Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation announced 23 recipients of The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies on May 14. Conceived by the Foundation together with the American Council of Learned Societies, the program aims... -
Buddhist film wins award at religious festival
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMCon Duong Giac Ngo (Path of Enlightenment) won the Best Television award at the recent Buddhist Film Festival. Made by director Cong Hau and produced by Hoang Phap Pagoda, the film will be screened from 8am to 5pm at ... -
Vesak Day celebrations begin in Ninh Binh
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMThe 11th United Nations Day of Vesak celebrations were launched this morning at the Bai Dinh Pagoda in the northern Ninh Binh Province. The celebrations, which end on Sunday, are being hosted by the National Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VDS), and will attract more than 10,000 ... -
Earthquake ravages Thailand Buddhist temples
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMMyanmar and parts of northern Thailand were rocked by a strong earthquake on Tuesday that killed one person and hurt several dozen more. Another casualty of the seismic disruption was a huge statue of the Buddha in the Chiang Rai province of Thailand,... -
Tentative Program 11th Anniversary Celebration and International Buddhist Conference of United Nations Day of Vesak 2014
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMTENTATIVE PROGRAM: 11th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION AND INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST CONFERENCE OF UNITED NATIONS DAY OF VESAK 2014 Theme: “Buddhist Perspective towards Achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals”. May 7th – 11th, 2014 -
Celebrating the Dream of Religious Plurality: The Buddha Purnima Festival in Bangladesh
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMWhen my elders retold to me Bangladesh’s struggle for independence, I was regaled with the fundamental principles that make an independent nation-state worth living in. One of these was religious pluralism, a value that we Buddhist minorities treasure above all else in... -
National Vietnam Buddhist Sangha meeting for organizing UN Vesak 2014
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMThe Opening and Closing Ceremony of the UNDV 2014 will be broadcasted lively on Vietnam Television (VTV). The organizing committee estimates an approximate number of 1500 representatives from more than 100 countries, some of whom... -
Viet Nam preps for Buddhist festival
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMViet Nam is preparing to celebrate the United Nations Day of Vesak 2014 (the day of Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death) at Bai Dinh Temple in the northern province of Ninh Binh from May 7-11. -
What Does Buddhism Require?
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMThis is the fifth in a series of interviews about religion that I am conducting for The Stone. The interviewee for this installment is Jay L. Garfield, a professor of philosophy at Smith College, who is at work on a book called “Engaging Buddhism: Why Buddhism Matters to ... -
Art exhibition celebrates Vesak Day (Apr. 28 - May 9, 2014)
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMAn exhibition of paintings and sculptures by 52 well-known artists in HCM City has opened at the city's Fine Arts Association as part of the celebration of Vesak Day, an officially recognised United Nations holiday that celebrates the birth of Gautama Buddha... -
Sri Lanka deports British tourist for her Buddha tattoo
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMSri Lanka on Thursday deported a British tourist for having a tattoo of Buddha on her arm which a court said was an insult to the island's main religion. Legally, there is no ban on a Buddha tattoo in Sri Lanka, but the predominantly Buddhist nation... -
President commends Thailand's support to Sri Lanka
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMApr 27, Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said that Sri Lanka has a strong friendship with Thailand and the ties between the two countries, both practicing Theravada Buddhism, are strong . -
Amitabha Buddha’s Three Vows of Deliverance (Part II – The 19th Vow)
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMFor the 19th vow, the practitioners start to ‘set forth the Bodhi Mind, and do various meritorious deeds’ [practice]. Then they ‘sincerely aspire for Enlightenment (in pursuit of Buddhahood in the Pure Land) [faith], thus they finally ‘desire to... -
Buddhist college to admit nuns for the first time
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMSingapore's first campus for Buddhist nuns is set to open its doors to students from across the region in September. -
Be Your Own Light
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMAfter nearly a half century of teaching, the Buddha lay dying surrounded by his distraught disciples. In tearful whispers they pleaded, “Blessed One, who will be our teacher now? Who will guide us? How will we achieve enlightenment without your help?” -
Vesak or Saga Dawa - Celebrating the Buddha
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMVesak is a Buddhist holiday celebrating the Buddha's birth, and is celebrated on various days in the Spring, depending on the country. In Japan, it is celebrated on April 8th each year. In many other countries, is is celebrated on the first full moon day in the fourth lunar ... -
Ven. Hin Hung lecture: true living means making peace with death
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AM“Contemplation about death is very beneficial. If you contemplate more about death, you’ll cherish more life. A monk is supposed to remember every morning that he’s going to die… so that he would have more energy to practice,... -
Basic Buddhism Guide: 5 Minute Introduction
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMHow Can Buddhism Help Me? Buddhism explains a purpose to life, it explains apparent injustice and inequality around the world, and it provides a code of practice or way of life that leads to true happiness... -
Trisamayavyuharaja - Empowerment Related to Buddha Shakyamuni
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMOn the final morning of a short series of teachings His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been giving in Delhi at the request of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility he gave a Trisamayavyuharaja empowerment. -
Buddhist Volunteers Comforting MH370 Families in Malaysia
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMn a brief report, Paul Goldman wrote for NBC that: “About 10 volunteers from the Taiwan-based organization are offering round-the-clock counseling for relatives who have spent two agonizing weeks hoping for a breakthrough in the hunt... -
Ethics and Compassion for Young Minds and Teachings Resume in New Delhi
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMOn a bright spring morning today in the Indian capital His Holiness the Dalai Lama met with almost 260 students as well as 40 teachers and principals from13 Delhi schools including the Step by Step School, Mount Abu School,... -
Sinful to discriminate against leprosy patients: Dalai Lama
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMEven though India has achieved the World Health Organisation's (WHO) elimination level for leprosy, the social stigma associated with the disease is still prevalent, Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama has said. -
Compassion: An East-West Comparison
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMCompassion is an emotion that occupies a central position in Mahayana Buddhist philosophy while it is often a neglected subject in contemporary western philosophy. This essay is a comparison between an Eastern view of compassion based upon Mahayana Buddhist ... -
Seda Monastery, the world's largest Tibetan Buddhist school
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMStunning images of Seda Monastery, the world's largest Tibetan Buddhist school, capture the elegance of a holy place lost in a sea of tiny red houses in western Sichuan -
Buddhist Dictionary - Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMFrom The Preface To The First Edition. As a first attempt of an authentic dictionary of Buddhist doctrinal terms, used in the Páli Canon and its Commentaries, this present manual will fill a real gap felt by many students of Buddhism. It provides ... -
Buddhism puts everything on show
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMThe Buddhism Expo has been held before, but this is the first time the order took the reins. This year, it boasted over 350 booths and 250 participants, including many Buddhism-related enterprises. Next year it will move to COEX, the city’s largest convention center to attract... -
Lamas kick off Buddhist festival
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMTwenty Indian Buddhist lamas performed hours-long sacred Buddhist dances and chants at the Vinh Nghiem Pagoda on Saturday morning as a week-long Buddhist Festival began in HCM City. -
Meditation Enhancing the Lives of Children
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMMeditation, one of the fundamental components of Buddhist praxis, is gaining popular awareness around the world. In the past few decades, journalists and researchers have reported that the benefits of meditation are applicable to Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike,... -
Buddhist lama presents students with methods to find inner peace
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMArjia Rinpoche, director of the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center in Indiana, spoke to students March 4 about finding inner peace. Rinpoche is also a Buddhist lama, which is a title for a teacher of Buddhist actions.... -
Woman in Buddhism
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMIf anyone wanted to present Buddhism as a viciously sexist religion, they could easily do so by quoting out of context passages from numerous sutras or from more recent texts such as Shinran's wasan (poems) or the by-laws of the Shinshu Otani-ha (Higashi Honganji's denomination)...