2001 2001 - During my fieldwork in Taiwan in 2001, many informants mentioned Luminary nuns to me as group of nuns well-trained in Buddhist doctrines, practices, and precepts. The term Luminary nuns seems to be equivalent to the image of knowledgeable and disciplined Buddhist ...During my fieldwork in Taiwan in 2001, many informants mentioned Luminary nuns to me as group of nuns well-trained in Buddhist doctrines, practices, and precepts. The term Luminary nuns seems to be equivalent to the image of knowledgeable and disciplined Buddhist nuns. In this paper, I will talk about the significance and influence of Luminary nuns, and why I think theirs is a feminist movement. But first, I will give a short introduction of the social-historical background of ...
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01/2001 Jan 2, 2001 - Byline: AP. CHARLOTTESVILLE -- A Yale University professor has donated a collection of more than 10000 books on Buddhism to the University of Virginia. Paul Groner, a professor of religious studies at U.Va., said that Stanley Weinstein's gift will give the university one of America's ...
From YALE PROFESSOR DONATES BUDDHISM BOOK COLLECTION TO U.VA … - Related web pages
www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-68916149.html?refid ... - Jan 5, 2001 - The lineage, which is a particular school of Buddhism, was crushed after the Chinese violently annexed Tibet. ... On his first Miami visit, Tulku found little interest in Buddhism. But he said he was lured back by a vision of a temple and monastery here that would serve as his ...
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docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/MH/lib00245 ... - Jan 7, 2001 - At just about that time he saw a series of films about Tibetan Buddhist lamas who had escaped after the Chinese occupation of their ... So Matthieu made several trips to India and became the disciple of Kangyur Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist lama, who was then living in Darjeeling. ...
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www.hindu.com/thehindu/2001/01/07/stories ... - Jan 7, 2001 - Ajahn Thanasanti is a Buddhist nun in the Thai Forest tradition of Therevada Buddhism. This means she often lives alone in forest settings. She has also lived in Buddhist communities in England, Thailand and Australia. But it was a near-fatal encounter with a wild Himalayan bear that ...
From The Spirit of Things - 1/07/01: Todays Buddhists: City Slickers and Forest … - Related web pages
www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/spirit/stories/s321842.htm - Jan 16, 2001 - The Abington School District is still deciding whether to sell Glenside-Weldon Elementary School, but a potential buyer has surfaced. Representatives of Won Buddhism of Philadelphia Inc. have informed the district that they would be interested in buying the school to open what they say ...
From … HAS DESIGNS ON A SCHOOL \ WON BUDDHISM OF PHILA. WANTS … - Related web pages
docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/PI/lib00186 ... - Jan 16, 2001 - He is the second Buddhist police chaplain in the US; PHOTOGRAPHER: GENARO MOLINA / Los Angeles Times; Kusala carries this picture of [Kwan Yin] in his ... Kusala, 51, a Buddhist monk, is one of two new recruits in the Garden Grove Police Department's cutting-edge chaplain program. ...
From METRO NEWS; Police Chaplain Program Is Keeping Many Faiths; Religion: … - Related web pages
pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/66836911 ... - Jan 18, 2001 - By FRANK BROWN. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Opposition to the latest international efforts to end Sri Lanka's 18 years of crippling civil war is coming from what would seem like an unlikely source - the island nation's Buddhist monks. "Normally Buddhism is a very peaceful religion, ...
From Buddhist monks pose obstacle to Sri Lanka peace - Related web pages
www.amarillo.com/stories/011801/bel_buddhist.shtml - Jan 21, 2001 - Author: CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA; AP. On the taxi dashboard, a plastic Buddha doll shudders atop a tiny spring. Prayer beads sway from the rearview mirror. Cartoon stickers of child Buddhas, one making a thumbs up sign, decorate seat-belt holders. A shrine to Buddhist kitsch, the cab drops ...
From Buddhist temple is a retreat from urban landscape - Related web pages
docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/MWSB/lib00252 ... - Jan 31, 2001 - Unlike many Buddhist teachers, Lama Surya Das believes enlightenment can be attained in a few years, not a few lifetimes. "Anyone can do it," said Surya Das, a leading voice in American Buddhism, who will be in Chicago today and Thursday to sign copies of his latest book, Awakening the ...
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02/2001 Feb 3, 2001 - If there's one creature in this island nation that suggests a wretched 18-year-old civil war is not about religion, it is the majestic temple elephant of Kataragama, a major pilgrimage destination for the country's Buddhists and Hindus. Three times every day, to the squeals of children ...
From An Island's Oasis of Peace; In Sri Lanka, Buddhists and Hindus Put … - Related web pages
www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-411338.html?refid=gg_x_02 - Feb 3, 2001 - Jeffrey Miller was born into a Jewish family on Long Island, but a spiritual quest led him to Tibetan Buddhism, and now, as Lama Surya Das, he is one of the leading voices of an emerging American Buddhism. Surya Das, who lives in Concord, has studied Buddhism for three decades with ...
From A VOICE FOR AMERICAN BUDDHISM - Related web pages
docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/BG/lib00064 ... - Feb 12, 2001 - But several pieces of world importance remained, including one Buddhist statue which experts say is priceless. ... These included Buddhist statues and bowls, ancient Hindu pieces, as well as Islamic relics - all precious evidence of Afghanistan's rich cultural past. ...
From Taleban 'destroy' priceless art - Related web pages
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1165983.stm - Feb 17, 2001 - (Mu Ryang means "infinite"; [Mu Ryang Sunim] is the traditional Korean Buddhist title for monks.) For the next five years, he traveled across Asia, learning of the different schools of Buddhism in Korea, Japan, China, Thailand and India. It was during these travels with his Zen master ...
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pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/68735967 ... - Feb 18, 2001 - THE excavation of numerous sculptures, reflecting the history of Buddhism at Ratnagiri, Lalitagiri and Udayagiri in Orissa, speak of a glorious era in this ancient land, one which gradually faded into the distant past. "The golden triangle of Buddhism", 100 km from the State capital ...
From The magic of Buddhist art - Related web pages
www.hindu.com/2001/02/18/stories/1318049h.htm - Feb 24, 2001 - By Brian Kennedy ¥Ì°i}. Part of the Bodhisatta's vows that are so central to Mahayana Buddhism, the form of Buddhism that is most widespread in Taiwan, say, "For as long as space endures and for as long as living beings remain, until then may I, too, abide to dispel the misery of the ...
From Buddhists have to fight death penalty - Related web pages
www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives ... - Feb 26, 2001 - American converts are taking a 2500-year-old faith and making it over in their own image -- self-absorbed. By Stephen Prothero. Feb 26, 2001 | As anyone who hasn't spent the last few years meditating in a cave in Asia knows, American Buddhism is booming. The 1990s saw three Buddhist ...
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03/2001 Mar 2, 2001 - The decision of the hardline Islamist regime to destroy Afghanistan's Buddhist heritage has provoked anger and dismay across the world. Angelo Gabriele de Ceglie, ... Across Asia, Buddhist countries including Thailand, Cambodia and Sri Lanka implored the Taliban to change its mind. ...
From Taliban begins destruction of the world's tallest Buddha - Related web pages
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/taliban ... - Mar 3, 2001 - Some 1500 years ago, the valley was a busy node on the trade route between China and India, in a part of Asia where languages and religions -- Buddhism, Hinduism and, later, Islam -- coexisted. It was also home to a great Buddhist monastic center, one that nurtured epoch-changing ...
From Buddhas of Bamiyan: Keys to Asian History - Related web pages
select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res ... - Mar 7, 2001 - This is not the first - or even, arguably, the greatest damage to Afghanistan's Buddhist treasures: the country's museums and their collections of early Buddhist art were looted ... There is no battle now in Bamiyan and Buddhism has not been active there for more than a thousand years. ...
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www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273 ... - Mar 9, 2001 - A Chinese Buddhist leader has spoken highly of the government ban on Falun Gong according to law, saying that in the eyes of Buddhists, this is a just action that is most gratifying to the people. Shi Shenhui, a vice chairman of the Buddhist Association of China, made this remark ...
From 2001: Buddhist Leader Hails Government Ban on Falun Gong - Related web pages
www.cctv.com/lm/980/711/82512.html - Mar 9, 2001 - The footwear controversy involving the Karmapa Lama has not only landed the Gaya district administration in a quandary, but also again created friction between the Tibetan and non-Tibetan Buddhists. The Karmapa caused a furore on Tuesday when he entered the Mahabodhi Temple with his ...
From Karmapa's footwear divides Buddhists - Related web pages
www.rediff.com/news/2001/mar/09kar.htm - Mar 10, 2001 - The fire ignited by the Taliban over the destruction of the ancient Buddhist statues at Bamiyan this week threatens to jump across to India, ... The reaction of India, the cradle of Buddhism and a country with deep and ancient links to Afghanistan, to the Taliban decision to smash the ...
From Taliban vandalism stirs India's oldest hatreds - Related web pages
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/taliban ... - Mar 12, 2001 - Carved into cliffs deep in the parched Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan, the towering Buddhist statues of Bamiyan seemed as if they might ... Carved out of stone by Greek artists in the early years of Buddhism, the icons have been visited by pilgrims on the way to holy sites in ...
From … Past : The Taliban take aim at Buddhist antiquities".(Brief Article) - Related web pages
www.accessmylibrary.com/premium/0286/0286 ... - Mar 17, 2001 - Max Moerman, an expert on Buddhist images who teaches at Barnard College in New York, told this ancient story when asked about the Islamic ... Buddhist teachers point out that despite the images' importance, Buddhists do not worship them. "There is a misunderstanding that Buddhists try ...
From Buddha Statue Called Guide, Not Idol; Destruction of Artifacts in … - Related web pages
www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-413506.html?refid=gg_x_02 - Mar 17, 2001 - THE Andhra Pradesh Government has given a new thrust to the efforts of promoting tourism to Buddhist heritage sites in the State as part of its overall strategy to increase revenues through tourism which it recognised as a growth engine, next only to inf ormation technology. ...
From AP thrust to promote Buddhist heritage sites - Related web pages
www.thehindubusinessline.com/businessline/2001 ... - Mar 22, 2001 - Arrayed against the tolerant and measured messages of Buddhism, the quagmire of the "Bamiyan Massacre" seems perplexing at best. ... These towering, transcendental images were key symbols in the rise of Mahayana Buddhist teachings, which emphasized the ability of everyone, ...
From Why the Taliban are destroying Buddhas - Related web pages
www.usatoday.com/news/science/archaeology/2001 ... - Mar 24, 2001 - And while Buddhism remains the major focus, it is presented in the historical context of competing religions that vie, often in violent conflict, ... This is a familiarly Jewish perspective that aligns him precisely with the spirit of Buddhism, as Bernstein is quick to point out: "Both ...
From … , answers and beliefs; BOOK REVIEW; Seeing Buddhism in the Context of … - Related web pages
pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/69983532 ... - Mar 30, 2001 - So far, however, there have been no reports of Buddhists retaliating anywhere in the world. Not in Sri Lanka, where Buddhists account for 94% of the ... But we did not hear this from Buddhists countries," he said. "I suggest that Muslims have more frequent dialogue with Buddhists. ...
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04/2001 Apr 5, 2001 - BANGKOK, Thailand — Asian officials and Buddhist groups expressed dismay Wednesday at an order to destroy two 5th century statues of Buddha in ... Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos, all predominantly Buddhist nations, have not officially criticized the Taliban order to destroy all ...
From Many Asian Nations Regret Taliban Decision - Related web pages
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,1441,00.html - Apr 7, 2001 - The picture lives in the minds of many Americans who came of age during Vietnam: A Tibetan monk, protesting the war, pours gasoline over himself and lights a match. Through the smoke and the flames, he seems to smile, surrendering to an excruciating death. ...
From Former Buddhist monk becomes activist for Tibet.(NEWS) - Related web pages
www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-72994563.html?refid ... - Apr 15, 2001 - [Richard Bernstein] threads his story around the journey of Hsuan Tsang, the 7th-century Buddhist monk who made one of the greatest ... He set out in 629 from his native China across central Asia to India to seek out the Buddhist Truth. In China, Hsuan Tsang -- romanized in the modern ...
From Journey to the East - Related web pages
pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access ... - Apr 16, 2001 - Our March 12 story on the Taliban's plan to destroy ancient Buddhist statues prompted many readers to deplore what one called "a dastardly act. ... You're right, NEWSWEEK, the Taliban has "succeeded only in angering the world" by going on a rampage against Buddhist idols ("Destroying ...
From The Taliban Strikes Again - Related web pages
www.accessmylibrary.com/premium/0286/0286 ... - Apr 24, 2001 - Hout, 37, designs and builds "ghost palaces," a Buddhist tradition that believes a deceased's spirit needs earthly possessions to make its stay in ... Theravada Buddhism is the state religion, and many people nurture a deep belief in spirits. In Cambodia and other Asian nations, homes, ...
From … builds lavish 'ghost palaces' to carry Buddhists' spirits to afterlife - Related web pages
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/article?f=/c/a ... - Apr 27, 2001 - The young Buddhist leader who escaped from Tibet a year ago has spoken for the first time about his flight from his homeland. ... The teenage lama, who is the third most important figure in Tibetan Buddhism, has been granted refugee status in India and now lives near the Dalai Lama in ...
From Boy Lama describes flight from Tibet - Related web pages
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1300183.stm - Apr 29, 2001 - My travels led me halfway around the world, from South Africa to California, where I took up residence in a Zen Buddhist community in San Francisco. Culinary enlightenment in this meat-free environment came in the form of bland white wedges that transformed into taste- nirvana when ...
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05/2001 May 2, 2001 - Arlon Lindner for criticizing the Dalai Lama and Buddhism was signed by more than 60 House members Tuesday, including three members of Lindner's ... Lindner, of Corcoran, said in an e-mail to legislators Monday that the Dalai Lama is considered a leader of a "cult" and that Buddhism is ...
From DAILY ROUNDUP; Legislators criticize Lindner over Buddhism … - Related web pages
www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-73991412.html?refid ... - May 5, 2001 - WALTHAM - Three years after they took Brandeis University in Waltham and Trinity College in Hartford by storm, a group of Tibetan Buddhist nuns are transforming the way scholars think about gender and Buddhism. At Brandeis, an anthropologist who lived with Tibetan nuns in India is ...
From TIBETAN NUNS ALTER VIEWS ON BUDDHISM - Related web pages
docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/BG/lib00064 ... - May 5, 2001 - ... * Lama Jinpa Tharchin was once known as Bill Voigt, of Overland and University City. He will speak Sunday at a celebration at a monastery in Augusta. Lama Jinpa Tharchin is certainly a rarity, a Buddhist lama who grew up in Overland and University City. Jinpa will be the main teacher ...
From EVENT FEATURES AMERICAN BUDDHIST LAMA, WHO GREW UP … - Related web pages
docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/SL/lib00170 ... - May 6, 2001 - If you talk with Roger Jackson, you'd better be interested in Buddhism and baseball, because Jackson, a professor of religious studies at Carleton ... Jackson, 50, probably doesn't fit your image of a Buddhist. He is not a monk, or a movie star. He is instead a gentle, self-effacing ...
From BUDDHA AND BASEBALL CAN HAPPILY COEXIST - Related web pages
docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/SP/lib00247 ... - May 12, 2001 - That spring, Marilee Latta had been reading about Tibetan Buddhism, so she already knew the Four Thoughts That Turn The Mind. ... It was during this period, when she was reading about Buddhism but not yet practicing it, that Latta's son Roman was swept away by an avalanche on the back ...
From … Enlightenment - Utahns drawn to the quiet lessons of Tibetan Buddhism - Related web pages
docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/DSNB/lib00496 ... - May 12, 2001 - Despite thousands of people filling every venue at which the Tibetan Buddhist leader spoke, several readers of the newspaper complained about ... Not all went so far as the letter writer who said that a "Buddhist, Muslim or Jew or any other person who does not believe in the holy word ...
From SOME MINNESOTANS BELIEVE THE DALAI LAMA DOESN'T DESERVE … - Related web pages
docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/SP/lib00247 ... - May 12, 2001 - Author:. For Thou Art With Me: The Healing Power of Psalms. by Samuel Chiel and Henry Dreher, Rodale Books, $21.95, 209 pp. For more than 40 years, Rabbi Samuel Chiel has counseled people suffering from illness, loss or depression. He often has recommended the Old Testament Psalms as a ...
From … THE POWER OF PSALMS; WOMAN SHARES PATH TO BUDDHISM - Related web pages
pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/72993709 ... - May 26, 2001 - Gardeners carefully tended beds of posies and irises while workers applied fresh coats of paint to fences and doorways at Chicago's Midwest Buddhist Temple earlier this week in preparation for a very special visitor. This weekend, for the first time, Gomonshu Koshin Ohtani, ...
From Buddhist leader visits temple in Old Town - Related web pages
docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/CSTB/lib00224 ... - May 27, 2001 - Monks in orange robes dashed through a muddy field near the Fauquier County village of Catlett yesterday, passing out pamphlets printed in Laotian, Burmese, Tibetan and Vietnamese. Women and girls busily packed pounds of sweet rice into baskets and plopped hundreds of egg rolls into ...
From Buddhists Feel at Home, Celebrate in Fauquier - Related web pages
www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-437359.html?refid=gg_x_02 - May 30, 2001 - Nearby sits a robed Buddhist monk, a small altar at his back. The stillness is so profound it seems to muffle the blare of a television in the ... The number of practicing Buddhists in America, estimated to be about two million, has grown exponentially since the 1960's as interest has ...
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06/2001 Jun 8, 2001 - The woman with AIDS lies on a mattress, tossing between sleep and blurred consciousness. Her thin arms move in slow motion. Her wrists are looped in string bracelets, Buddhist sacred threads tied to bless her recovery. Pairat is 35. A younger looking woman, fanning her against the heat ...
From Thailand's Buddhists Tend Victims of an Epidemic MEANWHILE - Related web pages
www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-45119643.html?refid ... - Jun 17, 2001 - Hollywood has shown quite an attachment to Buddhist themes over the last seven years. But have you noticed that most of those movies are about one relatively minor sect, and one particularly photogenic follower of that ancient philosophy? Can you say "Dalai Lama? ...
From Buddhism beyond Tibet - Related web pages
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001 ... - Jun 18, 2001 - By TERENCE NEILAN. Until six years ago, James Frechter rose at 9 each morning, put on a dark suit and the mandatory tie and took the subway to Wall Street to begin another long day as an associate lawyer with Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. Nowadays, he is up by 4 am in the Dai Bosatsu ...
From Buddhism Blooms Amid the Forests Of the Catskills; Ancient Cures for … - Related web pages
select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res ... - Jun 23, 2001 - Barry Goldwater, his first cousin, he became an ordained Buddhist priest in the 1930s, when Buddhism was relatively unknown in the United States and white ... He went on to teach Buddhism in Los Angeles for almost 70 years. Goldwater was born in 1908 to a well-to-do Los Angeles family. ...
From … ; Rev. Julius Goldwater; Convert to Buddhism Aided WWII Internees - Related web pages
pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/74565386 ... - Jun 23, 2001 - Julius A. Goldwater, an early American convert to Buddhism revered for safeguarding the belongings of hundreds of Japanese Americans forced into ... Barry Goldwater, his first cousin, he became an ordained Buddhist priest in the 1930s, when Buddhism was relatively unknown in the United ...
From … ; Rev. Julius Goldwater; Convert to Buddhism Aided WWII Internees - Related web pages
pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/74565386 ... - Jun 24, 2001 - (06-24) 04:00 PDT Los Angeles -- The Rev. Julius Goldwater, an early American convert to Buddhism revered for safeguarding the belongings of hundreds of Japanese Americans forced into internment camps during World War II, died June 11 at his home here after an illness. He was 93. ...
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07/2001 Jul 9, 2001 - Before she found Buddhism, the closest Jeanine Maes came to honoring God was by capturing sunsets and gardens in watercolors for tourists. Now disciplined prayer and meditation bring peace to the restless soul of an artist who grew up yearning for a spiritual connection in a family of ...
From More women taking vows of Buddhist nuns. - Related web pages
www.accessmylibrary.com/premium/0286/0286 ... - Jul 10, 2001 - Sponsored by the Chinese Buddhist Association, the exhibition is part of the series of activities celebrating the 50th anniversary of the peaceful liberation of Tibet. The "Tsha-tsha," a Tibetan transliteration from Sanskrit, is mainly used by Tibetan Buddhists to fill the inner ...
From Clay Votive Tablets of Tibetan Buddhism Exhibited in Beijing - Related web pages
news.xinhuanet.com/english/20010710/427863.htm - Jul 13, 2001 - A newcomer to the faith, [Jeanine Maes] is not sure how far she will go with her studies beyond taking the final vows of a nun. But the possibilities are endless. Her teacher, Ani Karma Chotso, a former Protestant who sang in the church choir and picked wheat on her family's North ...
From American women embracing Buddhism Feminism changes roles, opens … - Related web pages
pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access ... - Jul 14, 2001 - High up in the Alpujarras region of southern Spain, lies the Buddhist retreat of O Sel Ling. It feels like Tibet, but it's only an hour from the Costa del Sol. By Belinda Gannaway. It may not be the most obvious outpost of Tibetan Buddhism, but high on the Mediterranean slopes of ...
From Spain: the Buddhist retreat of O Sel Ling - Related web pages
www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice ... - Jul 18, 2001 - LHASA, July 18 (Xinhuanet)-- Chinese Vice President Hu Jintao, currently heading a central government delegation for celebrating activities marking the 50th anniversary of the peaceful liberation of Tibet, paid a visit to Jokhang Temple, a holy monastery for Tibetan Buddhism, ...
From Chinese Vice President Visits Tibetan Buddhist Temple - Related web pages
news.xinhuanet.com/english/20010718/431159.htm - Jul 28, 2001 - Harvard Divinity School has come a long way from the days when its primary focus was training Unitarian ministers. The school boasts an extraordinarily diverse student body from 33 countries, every major ethnic group, and several dozen religious faiths, from African Methodist ...
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08/2001 Aug 3, 2001 - Author:. Ten years ago, two Tibetan teaching masters turned on a religious light for William Hinman. Drawn by their messages of love, wisdom and compassion, and typical of his passionate personality, he quickly became "110 percent" dedicated to Buddhism, his sister Barrie said. ...
From WILLIAM HINMAN, 56 Businessman devoted later life to Buddhism - Related web pages
pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access ... - Aug 5, 2001 - Buddhism was introduced into China from India around the 1st century AD, and the carvings at Yungang clearly were influenced by Indian sources--Shiva and other ... In 1903 a Japanese academic drew attention to this sanctuary of Buddhist art, initiating an era of scholarly interest. ...
From … of Soul in Ancient Footsteps; Beyond Beijing, Buddhist and Tao sanctuaries … - Related web pages
pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/77030528 ... - Aug 20, 2001 - By GUSTAV NIEBUHR. Far up a dirt road in a remote Rocky Mountain valley, two Tibetan Buddhist monks in multicolored robes dipped and twirled, enacting an ancient dance describing their homeland's sacred history. Other monks blew trumpets and clashed cymbals, while 2000 people looked on ...
From Towering Buddhist Shrine Is Consecrated in Rockies - Related web pages
select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res ... - Aug 20, 2001 - A human rights monitoring groups says the Chinese authorities have forced hundreds of nuns and monks to leave a Buddhist institute in south-west China. The London-based Tibet Information Network says the expulsions took place at the Serthar Institute in Sichuan province. ...
From 'China expels Buddhists from institute' - Related web pages
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1500444.stm - Aug 31, 2001 - Q. Is Buddhism growing in America both through Buddhist immigrants moving here, as well as Westerners becoming interested? A. Every year, Buddhism in America is growing more. Interest in Buddhism is growing as Americans become more educated and study the philosophies and practices of ...
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09/2001 Sep 1, 2001 - Lid Juarez found something four years ago that transformed his life. The 70-year-old Dallas man has lost 25 pounds, and chronic problems with indigestion and arthritis are gone. He said the hassles of day-to-day life no longer bother him, and he feels at peace 24 hours a day. ...
From Buddhist master enthralls devotees Leader counsels rapt audience to 'cut … - Related web pages
docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/DM/lib00375 ... - Sep 2, 2001 - Author: AP. RED FEATHER LAKES - Belinda Griswold wore a T-shirt, clogs and a cowboy hat as she bowed before the 108-foot Buddha memorial overlooking this pine-covered valley. "It's really a way for people to come back to their own minds," said Griswold, 29, of San Francisco. ...
From Buddhism spreads in West $2.7 million memorial expected to draw … - Related web pages
docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/CSGB/lib00490 ... - Sep 7, 2001 - Author:. Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist master, will make his first visit to Connecticut to lecture this weekend at St. Thomas Seminary in Bloomfield. Thrangu Rinpoche "is known for making the complexity of Tibetan Buddhism easy to understand without watering down the ...
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pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/79951701 ... - Sep 9, 2001 - By Our Special Correspondent. HYDERABAD, SEPT. 8. Mr. Ram Raj, national chairman of the All India Confederation of SC/ST Organisations, said that there was "overwhelming" response to the Confederation's call to Dalits to embrace Buddhism. The Confederation expected ten lakh Dalits from ...
From 'Ten lakh Dalits likely to embrace Buddhism' - Related web pages
www.hindu.com/2001/09/09/stories/0409403k.htm - Sep 10, 2001 - [Home Edition]. About 6000 Dalits, often segregated as "untouchables" in India's Hindu caste hierarchy, converted to Buddhism in Kanpur, 240 miles southeast of New Delhi. Leaders of the ritual said they were protesting caste discrimination and India's failure to raise the issue at the ...
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pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/80149978 ... - Sep 11, 2001 - The InterReligious Council of San Diego is holding its 6th Annual Memorial Service for all those who died as a result of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. American Buddhism American Buddhist Net News.
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www.americanbuddhist.net/general/american ... - Sep 19, 2001 - By BARBARA CROSSETTE. High on a cliff near the northern tip of Cape Breton, isolated for most of the year by cruel weather, a Tibetan Buddhist community is taking a lead in defining Buddhism for the West. The hardships at the outpost, the Gampo Abbey, seem to fall easily into Tibetan ...
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10/2001 Oct 2001 - Kyizom Wangmo and her husband opened Potala Gate, a downtown Eugene store that sells Buddhist gift items, in October 2001. Business is good and growing, she said, even though she estimates that 75 percent of her customers don't consider themselves Buddhists.
From … dedication a sign of blossoming Eugene Buddhist community - Bahai Faith … - Related web pages
www.bahaindex.com/en/news/1-general-news/3568 ... - Oct 13, 2001 - I agree with Aryeh Neier's point that "every major faith is represented among both the assailants and the victims" in modern catastrophic military struggles, and his criticism of Samuel Huntington's "The Clash of Civilizations?" ["Warring Against Modernity," op-ed, Oct. 9]. ...
From Murderers, Not Buddhists - Related web pages
www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-476288.html?refid=gg_x_02 - Oct 14, 2001 - It got harder on Sept. 11, and even more complicated on Oct. 7, when the bombs started falling on Afghanistan and US troops began arriving in the region. "This tests pacifism," says the Rev. Alan Senauke, a pacifist, Buddhist priest and resident of Berkeley. ...
From Buddhist teachers with Berkeley ties counsel pacifism - Related web pages
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file ... - Oct 14, 2001 - It has led her into a sharp conflict over the lowly and unequal status of women in Buddhist practice in Thailand, reviving a fight faced by ... The ordination, in Sri Lanka, put her on a collision course with a Buddhist hierarchy in Thailand that believes that only men can enter the ...
From Thai Monk Blazes Path For Equality For Women - Related web pages
select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res ... - Oct 14, 2001 - Mark Epstein emerged from his Connecticut childhood in the 1960s with a sense of emptiness -- "a deficiency of spirit" -- that by now has become a familiar topic to baby boomers. Epstein's search for what was missing in his life led him to immerse himself in Buddhism before entering ...
From A BOOMER ON BUDDHISM - Related web pages
pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/84675833 ... - Oct 15, 2001 - Meena Morrison, an elegant, Thai-born American in a long black skirt and tailored jacket, dropped to her knees Sunday before a small golden reliquary nestled in a bed of flowers and jewels. Easily visible at the bottom of the small cup were a half-dozen polished slivers of bone, ...
From BONE SLIVERS UNITE DIVERSE BUDDHISTS - Related web pages
docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/RM/lib00243 ... - Oct 17, 2001 - Crickets were chirping and rain was falling as three people wearing robes entered a Mt. Lebanon park early Sunday afternoon and set up a small statue of Buddha. They placed eight red and gold wooden shrines in a circle and put sticks of burning incense on both sides of each shrine. ...
From BUDDHISTS LEAD ANIMAL RELEASE SERVICE - PETS AND THEIR … - Related web pages
docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/PG/lib00051 ... - Oct 20, 2001 - No transition bridges the gap from this early mystery to an even greater one the spread of Buddhism across the eastern Iranian world from about the ... Buddhism seeped deep into Iranian lands, eventually extending over most of Afghanistan, much of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and parts of ...
From Painting the Portrait of a Mysterious Culture - Related web pages
www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-47649058.html?refid ... - Oct 28, 2001 - By Our Staff Reporter. NEW DELHI, OCT. 27. Asserting that all preparations for the forthcoming Buddhist ceremony here on November 4 are well in place, the All-India Confederation of SC/ST Organisations and Lord Buddha Club chairman, Mr. Ram Raj, today dismissed the charges levelled by ...
From Buddhist council condemns VHP's charges - Related web pages
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11/2001 Nov 2001 - In November 2001, the AGNSW staged a major exhibition of Buddhist art and culture, provisionally titled "Buddha: Radiant Awakening". Drawing on the growing popularity of Buddhism in society, the AGNSW aimed to attract new audiences to the exhibition ...In November 2001, the AGNSW staged a major exhibition of Buddhist art and culture, provisionally titled "Buddha: Radiant Awakening". Drawing on the growing popularity of Buddhism in society, the AGNSW aimed to attract new audiences to the exhibition, including Asian migrant communities, New Age groups, and young people.
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www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/e107/content ... - Nov 2001 - Infractions of the code are punished by criminal penalties. In November 2001, two nuns at Thayet were arrested and imprisoned for violating this order. Since the early 1990s, the junta increasingly has made special efforts to link itself with Buddhism as a means ...The junta also authorized military commanders to try Buddhist monks before military tribunals for "activities inconsistent with and detrimental to Buddhism," and imposed on Buddhist monks a code of conduct. Infractions of the code are punished by criminal penalties. In November 2001, two nuns at Thayet were arrested and imprisoned for violating this order. Since the early 1990s, the junta increasingly has made special efforts to link itself with Buddhism as a means of boosting its ...
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www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2003/23823.htm - Nov 1, 2001 - By John Leyden. Socially dysfunctional teenagers, disgruntled employees and even the Russian Mafia have brought the word 'hacker' into disrepute but the application of Buddhism can help turn things around. That's the view of ex-Buddhist monk turned chief executive of security startup ...
From Ex-Buddhist monk to reclaim hacking from s'kiddiots - Related web pages
www.theregister.co.uk/2001/11/01 ... - Nov 1, 2001 - So does Sara Jenkins, the author of This Side of Nirvana: Memoirs of a Spiritually Challenged Buddhist (Fair Winds, $24.95). Jenkins, a former art history ... If you hate riddles, if you hate green tea, if you fall asleep when you're meditating ... you're probably not a Buddhist. ...
From … aisle - Author's search led her to find Buddhism in religious supermarket - Related web pages
docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/CSTB/lib00224 ... - Nov 3, 2001 - new delhi: as the police has banned the sunday's conversion of lakhs of dalits to buddhism, the stage is set for confrontation. ram raj, president of the all-india confederation of sc/ st organisations warned saturday that "no one can stop the buddhist function. ...
From SC/ST panel firm on Buddhist function - Related web pages
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow ... - Nov 4, 2001 - After his conversion to Buddhism on November 4, 2001, he changed his name, following the tradition of Dalit intellectual and activist BR Ambedkar, who spearheaded the Dalit Buddhist movement [citation needed] . He is married to Seema Raj and they have two children Abhiraj ...
From Udit Raj - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Related web pages
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udit_Raj - Nov 4, 2001 - Although she spoke at a Walker Art Center film retrospective of her work several years ago, two-time Oscar-winning actor Jessica Lange has been mostly off the local radar, despite the fact that she has lived in the Twin Cities area for 6 years. Elsewhere, her profile has been much ...
From A KIND OF SANITY; In Buddhism, Jessica Lange says she has found a … - Related web pages
www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-79757322.html?refid ... - Nov 5, 2001 - That is why thousands of dalits came to a huge public ground in Delhi recently, converting to Buddhism. ... But Buddhism has been the most popular faith for dalits ever since their hero, BR Ambedkar, a lawyer who wrote India's constitution after independence, became a Buddhist. ...
From Buddhism's appeal for low-caste Hindus - Related web pages
news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/south_asia/1639245.stm - Nov 5, 2001 - Both the museum and commission are the work of a Taiwanese Buddhist group based on Lingjiou Mountain near Fulung, Taipei County. ... Unlike some other Buddhist organizations that devote their time to studying sutras and reciting prayers for the dead, or adding temples to the nation's ...
From Behind the Museum of World Religions, which opens in Yungho on Friday, … - Related web pages
www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2001/11 ... - Nov 6, 2001 - gaya: concerned over large scale conversion of dalits to buddhism in delhi on sunday and its likely fallout in bodh gaya, ... what has caused anxiety to the vhp leaders is the report that those who embraced buddhism amidst fanfare in delhi on sunday included more than 300 dalits from ...
From VHP concerned over likely fallout - Related web pages
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow ... - Nov 11, 2001 - It has led her into a sharp conflict over the lowly and unequal status of women in Buddhist practice in Thailand, reviving a fight faced by her ... The ordination, in Sri Lanka, put her on a collision course with a Buddhist hierarchy that in Thailand believes only males can enter the ...
From … Monk Seeks Equality; Religion: Thailand's Buddhist hierarchy says only … - Related web pages
pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/89280743 ... - Nov 12, 2001 - ... *****CORRECTION ran on November 14, 2001, as follows:****** The term "Nembutsu" refers to the Buddhist practice of reciting the name of the Amida Buddha. It is normally done as an expression of gratitude to the Buddha. A story on Page B1of Monday's Seattle and the Northwest section ...
From BUDDHISTS CELEBRATE TEMPLE'S 100-YEAR JOURNEY.(News) - Related web pages
www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-80085164.html?refid ... - Nov 25, 2001 - In the 1960s and 1970s, San Francisco Zen Center played a pivotal role in nurturing the blossoming American romance with Buddhism. ... These men and women often express themselves in Buddhist-speak, which a non-practitioner might interpret as nonsense rather than profundity. ...
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12/2001 Dec 2001 - 7. In December 2001, Mr Taeyang Oh, a 26-year-old Buddhist and pacifist, determined that he would not report for duty of military service to conscription office according to his conscience. He is first conscientious objector outside the Jehovah's Witness. He ...7. In December 2001, Mr Taeyang Oh, a 26-year-old Buddhist and pacifist, determined that he would not report for duty of military service to conscription office according to his conscience. He is first conscientious objector outside the Jehovah's Witness. He says that Buddhism teaches that all living beings fear death. Harming or killing another person in war, or learning to use guns would violate his religious and moral beliefs.
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www2.gol.com/users/quakers ... - Dec 6, 2001 - a mangle of buildings and gridlock din seems the most unlikely setting for a buddhist temple, and yet in mumbai's typical tradition, it is. the temple of ... buddhism for morita and this buddhist order assumes a completely different objective. “unlike the orthodox buddhist purport of ...
From Uniting Mumbai at Nipponzan Myohoji - Related web pages
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow ... - Dec 9, 2001 - Each Buddha corresponds to a geographical region and era in history, so together they form a map of the world's Buddhist civilizations. ... Buddhist iconography is also presented by Yan Ming-huei (嚴明惠) with her ceramic carvings of Kuanyin ( 觀音), the Goddess of Mercy. ...
From PHOTO: DAVID VAN DER VEEN, TAIPEI TIMES - Related web pages
www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2001/12 ... - Dec 9, 2001 - Buddhism was founded in northeastern India between the 6th century BC and the early 4th century BC by Buddha, which means enlightened one. Buddha was the name given to Siddhartha Gautama by his followers. Buddhists believe that correct thinking and self-denial will enable the soul to ...
From Gazette, The : Buddhists - Related web pages
docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/CSGB/lib00490 ... - Dec 10, 2001 - 2 photos Lay Minister [Dee Press] of Camarillo, above, rings a bell to signal the beginning of services at the Pine Mountain Buddhist center. Below, the Rev. ... Buddhist monks in brown robes led the group in ancient chants and hymns. Later, they discussed karma and abandoning desire. ...
From Ventura County; Monks Honor Buddhism's Birth; Religion: Quiet festival … - Related web pages
pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/94517320 ... - Dec 10, 2001 - The town's religious heart is Spirit Rock, a sprawling Buddhist center hidden along sweeping hillsides. ... In this town with a population of a little more than 6000, one can study Native American religion, Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sufism, Rastafarianism, voodoo, Islam, ...
From LIBERAL REARING URGED RELIGIOUS EXPLORATION - Related web pages
docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/BG/lib00064 ... - Dec 16, 2001 - AN OPEN HEART: PRACTICING COMPASSION IN EVERYDAY LIFE. By the Dalai Lama. Little, Brown. 191 pages. $22.95. "An Open Heart" is drawn from a series of talks that the Dalai Lama gave in 1999 when he was invited to speak in New York at the Beacon Theater and in Central Park. ...
From Dalai Lama instructs in Buddhism. - Related web pages
www.accessmylibrary.com/premium/0286/0286 ... - Dec 30, 2001 - [Bulldog Edition]. Surrounded by war, political volatility and hostile governments, archeologists are hemmed in as they try to uncover one of Buddhism's richest civilizations from the forbidding landscape of Central Asia. In the 1st to 7th centuries, the Kushan Buddhist empire was a ...
From RESPONSE TO TERROR; Buddhist Sites Survive Asia's Turmoil; Archeology: … - Related web pages
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