Thailand lurches toward Chaos
Bad news keeps piling up in Thailand. Three (Buddhist) women were shot in what some headlines call an “ambush” yesterday in (80% Muslim) southern Thailand. They were in a truck travelling to work. As a response…
Philip Ryan
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BuddhaTrain
Gee, I wish I could ride this train. But it doesn’t seem to be in the cards right now. In the meantime I’m left wondering what’s happened to Big Red Buddha. Does anyone know? Like a…
Buddhist chaplain thrown out of jail
Buddhist chaplain Frank Tedesco was kicked out of the Pinellas County Jail recently for allegedly breaking jail rules and bringing contraband behind bars. (Pinellas County is in the Tampa Bay area and contains the city of…
Railway brings “huge surge” of visitors to Tibet
The People’s Daily Online reports that the rail link to Lhasa allowed many more Buddhist pilgrims to attend the December 27th Sera Bengqin Festival at Sera Monastery than in previous years. As the People’s Daily put…
The Soul as a Rainbow
The Christian Post, a website providing daily coverage of Christianity all around the globe, is preparing its readers for the Dalai Lama’s upcoming U.S. visit with an article called, “How to Evangelize Tibetan Buddhists in the…
Dalai Lama says new rail link bringing trouble to Lhasa
Speaking in Mumbai on Wednesday, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama reportedly said the new rail link to Lhasa was bringing prostitutes and beggars to Tibet: Beggars and the handicapped are coming to Lhasa in huge…
Buddhist Self-Love and Blessed Contraceptives
From the department of Wasting Your Time on the Web: Jef Poskanzer has a page on his site reproducing a chart that supposedly appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle in December 1994. The chart, titled “Religion…
Running on Emptiness
Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, spiritual and secular leader of Shambhala International and president of The Shambhala Sun, the Canadian bimonthly, has a new music video out. A wearer of many hats, the Sakyong is also a marathon…
Buddhists continue to be targeted in southern Thailand
Buddhists are fleeing the terror-hotspot of Pattani in southern Thailand. While the Muslim insurgency there isn’t causing much of a stir in the West (guess why) it is a fact of life for many Thais. Buddhists…
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