Source: Beliefnet

Wire Service: AP

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/214/story_21483_1.html

Saba Yoi, Thailand - Hundreds of Buddhists rallied in Thailand's restive south Monday in anger over a bloody Islamic insurgency amid fears it could erupt into a sectarian battle between religious communities, officials said.

Protesters demanded that civilians be allowed to carry guns to protect themselves, and urged authorities to resist...

Source: The Buddhist Channel

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=56,3884,0,0,1,0

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -- The Malaysian Buddhist fraternity was in full force at the felicitation ceremony of Ven B Sri Saranankara Nayaka Maha Thero held at the Buddhist Maha Vihara temple in Sentul last Saturday.

Also present at the ceremony were Deputy Home Affairs Minister Datuk Tan Chai Ho, Deputy International Trade and Industry Minister Ng Lip Yong who is also Batu...

Source: Leader-Post

Wire Service: AP

http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/arts_life/story.html?id=5480a7f0-8c7b-4e45-b19e-be73333c14ef

LANSING, Kan. (AP) -- Lama Chuck Stanford started visiting a small group of Buddhist inmates in Kansas about six years ago.

"Then word got around that I was doing this," Stanford says, "and I started getting calls from prison chaplains around...

Author: ELAINE JARVIK

Source: The Buddhist Channel/The Daily Herald

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=65,3872,0,0,1,0

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (USA) -- He was a chemistry major, headed for a career in dentistry, when he took a seat that fall day in a class on "Buddha and Buddhism." From that very first day, says Charles Prebish, "I knew I was home."

Because his mother was still hoping he'd be a dentist, Prebish went on to dental...

Author: Dennis Fujimoto

Source: Kauai Garden Island News

http://www.kauaiworld.com/articles/2007/03/26/news/news01.txt

KAPAIA — Yellow twine criss-crossed one section of the Lihu‘e Hongwanji Mission social hall.

“That’s where the towels will hang to dry overnight,” said Ted Inouye, chairman for this year’s Lihu‘e Hongwanji Mission bon dance.

In the 2007 bon dance schedule...

Author: JULIA O'MALLEY

Source: Anchorage Daily News

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/8738796p-8640476c.html

One afternoon in February, Andrew Sekasin, 11, kicked through the snow in a parking lot outside the Lao Buddhist temple in Mountain View.

A "novice" in religious training with monks, Andrew wore marigold robes, an adult-sized orange parka and a pair of large white tennis shoes. A boy his age breezed by him on a BMX.
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Source: Reuters

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/waikatotimes/4003014a4560.html

COLOMBO: A Buddhist monk who applied to join Sri Lanka's police force and carry a gun has been turned down – because he wouldn't give up his saffron robes.

The monk applied for a job as assistant superintendent of police, a rank to which sidearms are issued. It was not immediately clear why the monk wanted the policing job in the first place, but many monks take on jobs as...

Author: Mary Bergin

Source: The Capital Times

Author: Sumeth Panpetch

Source: The Washington Post

Wire Service: AP

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/19/AR2007031900376.html

SABAYOI, Thailand -- Suspected Muslim separatists shot and killed three Buddhist women involved with a project for victims of Thailand's insurgency Monday, just two days after three Muslim children were killed in an attack on a boarding...

Author: James Woodard

Source: Inside Bay Area

http://www.insidebayarea.com/timesstar/ci_5460267

BERKELEY —The world-famous Tibetan Tantric Choir brought its exotic music Wednesday night to a full-house Zellerbach Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, highlighting the upcoming visit of the Dalai Lama to San Francisco in late April.

It was an impressive performance. Zellerbach's stage was decked with ornate tapestries replete...

Source: Media Newswire

http://media-newswire.com/release_1045435.html

(Media-Newswire.com) - The bridges and barriers to running a faith-based charity will be at the heart of discussions between the Charity Commission and Buddhist charities at a launch event in Birmingham tomorrow. The seminar is the first of its kind with the Buddhist charity community and is part of a larger nationwide campaign run by the charity watchdog to develop its knowledge of the issues facing faith...

Source: The Buddhist Channel/WKRN.com

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=61,3842,0,0,1,0

Nashville, TYN (USA) -- There has been a Buddhist temple in Nashville since 1981 and since then, the number of practicing Buddhists has grown dramatically. In turn, the Buddhist temple has opened a new center for meditation.

In a small house off Murfreesboro Road in south Nashville, dozens of immigrants and Asian Americans from the nation formerly known as Burma,...

Author: Andrew Gorosko

Source: The Newtown Bee/The Buddhist Channel

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=60,3843,0,0,1,0

Newtown, CT (USA) -- More than four years after its rejection by the Planning and Zoning Commission (P...

Source: USA Today

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-03-14-thailand_N.htm

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — A bomb wounded eleven Muslims outside a mosque in southern Thailand on Wednesday, in possible retaliation for the execution-style killings of eight Buddhist commuters in the same area earlier in the day.

Col. Apirat Sangkhao, the police chief in Yala province's Yaha district — where both attacks took place — described the bombing as "an...

Author: Lucy Sherriff

Source: The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/13/kids_video_for_good/

We hear a lot about violence in video games being to blame for all the ills besetting the youth of today. Now, a Thai games developer has decided it is time to right the balance and has developed a snappily titled Ethics Game to teach youngsters about being good, decent and teetotal.

The game is based around the five precepts of...