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Sri Lankan Consul General in Mumbai Ambassador Dr Valsan called for more communication between provincial politicians in India and Sri Lanka, which "will correct a lot of misperceptions". Speaking to Sidhant Sibal from…

I was reading Eric Nguyen's novel "The things we lost in the water" (Penguin Random House, $ 14.43) that images of desperate Haitians hoping to enter our country via Mexico have started appearing in the news. I thought of Percy…

Two new works pay homage to the legacy of one of San Francisco's greatest poets. It was a difficult time for poetry. Last year alone we lost Diane de Prima in October 2020, Laurent Ferlinghetti in February, then, in quick…

The number of cases in Japan drops from a peak of more than 5,000 per dayBriefly casting our eyes abroad, from Japan The number of COVID has dropped to its lowest level in nearly a year, just as other parts of Asia are grappling with an…

Korean drama Netflix Squid game received immense critical praise and maintained its number one spot on the platform's most-watched list. Part of the success of the K-drama lies in its main characters and their storylines.…

Laying the foundation stone for a 31.60 crore rupee Buddhist theme park as part of the Central Swadesh Darshan program and launching a multitude of development projects worth 524.07 crore…

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Nothing is permanent, therefore everything is precious. Here is a selection of some events, ephemeral or not, in the Buddhist world this week Edinburgh's Dalai Lama Inspired 'Himalaya…

During sound therapy, the sounds of live music will be played. There is no age limit for students who wish to register for the course.Sanchi University of Indian Buddhist Studies in Madhya Pradesh has launched diploma and certificate…

Seventy years ago, in September 1951, the San Francisco Peace Treaty was signed and Japan was readmitted to the international community after World War II. The historic San Francisco Peace Conference with the participation of 51 nations…

ECONOMYNEXT - Opposition lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake has expressed fears of a plan to stoke community discord in Sri Lanka by using seasonal extremist elements to distract the public from the multiple crises…

SACRAMENTO - A federal judge has allowed a lawsuit filed by an alleged Aryan Brotherhood leader to continue on the grounds that the prison is improperly withholding a religious vegetarian diet, court records show. But U.S. District Judge…

Given the international fame of the former University of Taxila (6e-5e century BC AD), historians have long called for the rebirth of this seat of knowledge. Once again, a call has been made for the revival of the university. Since…

In Sri Lanka, the Catholic hierarchy has just requested the opening of an investigation after the allegations of a Buddhist monk about another imminent jihadist attack. At the same time, the Archdiocese of Colombo denies the…

By DAQIONG and PALDEN NYIMA in Lhasa | China Daily World | Updated: 2021-09-28 09:25 From Sera Monastery in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, in mid-autumn,…

Beijing, Sept. 27 (Global Times): China's National Administration of Cultural Heritage announced on a video conference on Sunday that it will transfer 12 cultural relics and works of art recovered from the United States to the Tibet…

RAWALPINDI: The proposed revival of the University of Ancient Taxila, designated a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1980 and the largest center of learning about civilization in Gandhara, may turn the region into an educational tourism center…

The Kendal (Theravada) BGKT Buddhist group celebrated the 30th anniversary of its founding in September 1991. The School of Theravada Buddhism, which is the oldest school of Buddhism, is practiced in the five…

Benoy K. Behl, whose documentary captures Cham's spirit, talks about layers of meaning in ritual dance The serene and the sacred meet harmoniously in Benoy K. Behl's documentary, Lama Liberation Dance, which captures the spiritual…

Those who do not wish to be vaccinated do not need to invent religious excuses, as Cait Corrigan helps them to do. Rather, they can choose to learn, work, and recreate themselves in spaces where they won't endanger the lives of others -…

SCRAP FESTIVAL A woman offers food and alms to a Buddhist monk as she prays during the Pchum Ben (Festival of Death) festival in front of a pagoda in Phnom Penh on September 24, 2021 as authorities have…

In one video, several women, each sporting an impressive hairstyle, sit neatly on mattresses, seemingly in meditation, their oversized halo-shaped outlines…

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By Dr Tilak S. Fernando Lord Buddha said on his deathbed: Don't believe what others say just because others say it! Do not believe it because you have heard it from a wise being, but only believe something when you know it in your…

The The three pillars of zen is one of those books that mark the establishment of Zen in the West. It was first published in 1965 and has never been out of print. Three pillars is now translated into a dozen languages. And this…

One of the beautiful facets of Sri Lankan life is our multireligious and multicultural population. For centuries we have been a nation that respects all religions. Colombo is blessed with so many historic Hindu kovils, Buddhist temples,…

A Baptist group in Chin state, western Myanmar, condemned the killing of a local pastor by government troops in a clash between the Burmese military and local defense forces over the weekend -end in a conflict that…

Deputy Chairman of the Governmental Committee for Religious Affairs Nguyen Tien Trong (left) presents gifts Most Venerable Thich Thien Duc, Deputy Head of the Board of Directors of the VBS Section in HCM City (Photo: VNA) City HCM (VNA) -…

Verl HinatsuNovember 26, 1953 - August 7, 2021Boise, Idaho - VERL MATHIAS HINATSUA life well livedLongtime Boise, Idaho resident Verl Hinatsu passed away suddenly on August 7, 2021 at the age of 67. Born in Ontario, Oregon on November 26,…

The Sri Lanka-based Buddhist Brothers Foundation on Friday wished Prime Minister Narendra Modi his 71st birthday and praised his work in maintaining laudable bilateral relations with the neighboring country. Greetings came from…

Despite the cliché “graveyard of empires” talk, what we now call Afghanistan has been an important part of many sophisticated cultures for thousands of years.Located along the…

Sep 18, 2021WHAT WITH his dozens of concubines, his obsession with collecting precious jade, and his penchant for inscribing his own (not so good) poems on ancient paintings, Emperor Qianlong makes an unlikely hero for the Chinese…

It was not easy to enter. Long before entrance exams - or certainly before unbelievably high thresholds became the norm - Nalanda University had a testing system. Maybe even the first. Hsuan-Tsang or Xuanzang, as it is now called,…

Amy Imai has spent her life sharing her experiences as a Japanese American interned during WWII in the hope that the past would never happen again. Now Mountain View students attend an elementary school named in his honor.The Mountain…

As Afghanistan enters a new period of uncertainty following the withdrawal of US forces from the country this year, many people might think of the events of 20 years ago before the US invasion of the country following the attacks on…

Naomi Osaka took her skills off the tennis court and into the beauty world. The four-time Grand Slam singles tennis champion has just launched KINLÃ’, a skin care brand designed for people of color.…

The LingYen Mountain Temple will be expanded by over 90,000 square feet with eight new buildings. After 18 years of stops and starts in the planning process, construction has begun on a Buddhist temple on Richmond's Highway to…

These photos from the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage in Sri Lanka taken yesterday show the 25-year-old Surangi elephant with her twins born yesterday almost five hours apart, making the type's first birth at the facility created…

Bonhams New York will be hosting Asian Art Week auctions from September 17-24. These sales are parallel to the Christie's and Sotheby's versions. This international auction house will have seven fine art auctions - six auctions…

SriLankan Airlines will operate flights to Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, from Tuesday, connecting the island nation with the Himalayan nation.“We have approved Sri Lankan Airlines flights effective August…

Blowing up ancient monuments, destroying priceless artifacts, burning books and looting on a massive scale - when the Taliban first came to power in Afghanistan in 1996, they quickly declared war on most art forms and cultural…

Calcutta: The man who traveled all the way from Calcutta to Kabul to pave the way for the return of the 'Bowl of Buddha' from the National Kabul Museum to Vaishali in Bihar - his place of origin - is now gravely concerned of its fate in…

Nothing sums it up better than the above quote of the essence of the Indian Hood and its identity derived from the ages of its sentinel in the north - the Himalayas. The Sentinel of North India has…

When the Mongolian Fact-Checking Center started expanding the fact-checking movement to the Mongolian people in March 2020, it also exposed founder and editor-in-chief Dulamkhorloo Baatar to a new set of fact-checking!-->…

The first day of a large Buddhist gathering was held on Friday July 29, 1994, at the Manjushri Center in Conishead Priory, on the Furness Peninsula near Ulverston. PRAYER: Joanne Geekie and Kelsang Dawa…

The Land Silk Road is a popular topic in museum and gallery exhibitions. We often see depictions of cave paintings from Dunhuang, one of the peaks of cross-cultural artistic interactions and the spread of Buddhism through the Silk…

Ethnic Christians in a remote and hilly village in Bangladesh are under pressure from Buddhists to renounce their faith after two mob attacks severely damaged a Baptist church, a pastor said.Bawm Tribal Baptist Church in Sundrapara…

COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, Minnesota (AP) - In many ways Jaue Dorje is a typical American teenager - he grew up in a suburb of Minneapolis, loving soccer, Pokemon, and rap music. Yet in a few years, he hopes to say goodbye…

SANTA BARBARA, California, July 23, 2021 / PRNewswire / - This year, the Religious Studies Department at UC Santa Barbara is celebrating a milestone anniversary in the study of Tibetan Buddhism. Twenty years ago, the Duggan family had…

Hyderabad: A day after being relieved of government service for his voluntary retirement, former IPS officer Dr RS Praveen Kumar landed in a criminal case in Karimnagar district for his alleged pledge against the Hindu gods in March of…

Meanwhile, the MMCA's special exhibition "Masterpieces of Korean Art" features 58 paintings made mainly from the 1920s to the 1970s by 34 Korean artists, out of a total of 1,488 pieces donated, until March 13, 2022."This is a historic day…

A devastating third wave of the coronavirus pandemic is hitting several countries in Southeast Asia as the delta variant takes hold in the region, leading to record levels of infections and deaths. Countries in Southeast Asia such as…

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* President says Kotelawala Defense University will come under the jurisdiction of the University Grants Commission Sat Jul 17, 2021, 7:56 p.m. SL time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. July 17, Colombo: President Gotabaya…

A visitor looks at the description of the Dunhuang frescoes at the China Three Gorges Museum in Chongqing, July 15, 2021. (Photo / Zhou Yi) The "Temple of Buddhism, Silk Road and Yangtze River - Dunhuang Frescoes" exhibition was held at…

BANGKOK - Bangkok park enthusiasts seeking relief from renewed coronavirus restrictions had a slippery surprise Thursday when a python as long as two of the ubiquitous motorcycles in the Thai capital was spotted in one of the spaces most…

As baseball fans flocked to Denver on Tuesday for the MLB All-Star Game, a crowd of homeless advocates and homeless people gathered at a nearby park to protest the continued cleanup of homeless camps. -…

TOKYO - Having a robot read the scriptures for mourners seemed like a profitable idea for employees of Nissei Eco Co., a plastic manufacturer with a side business in the funeral business. The company hired a robot the…

SITTWE (MYANMAR): Shadow government breaks taboos in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar by welcoming Rohingyas into its anti-junta coalition, but many members of the long persecuted Muslim minority are wary after experiencing decades of…

Pune, July 10, 2021: As part of the Stand Up India program, 1.40 crore in grants has been distributed to 19 new entrepreneurs in the Pune division, informed Balasaheb Solanki, regional deputy commissioner, Department of Social…

The dream planted in the minds of the Sinhala Buddhist people was that the path to utopian state of Sinhala Buddhists will successfully reach its peak following the victory of the 2019 presidential election and the 2020…

Buddhist monks hold a banner that reads "Sangha Union Protest Line" as they give the…

Korean culture is one of the oldest and most extensive cultures in the world. In today's Korea, which is divided into North Korea and South Korea, there are more cultural!-->…

Phoenix might seem like the place to get away from it all this time of year, but July's art scene might say otherwise. Art lovers can enjoy dinner and a show at the Arizona Broadway Theater or experience French culture through music at the…

Colombo, Jul 2 (PTI) Sri Lanka briefed the EU on the progress of the reconciliation process and ongoing efforts to revise a controversial anti-terrorism law that gives police extensive powers to arrest suspects without trial. The move came…

A karmic war chest will await a Buddhist monk who has spent decades rescuing stray dogs in Shanghai and bringing them to his monastery to live in peace and comfort, or to find a new home. Since 1994, Zhi Xiang has rescued more…

TOKYO - (COMMERCIAL THREAD) - The Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) New Insider Guide to Japan features things to do and see that will soothe your soul. These contents are associated with the concept "Wellcation" which…

As the world's population continues to grow, the space to put the dead to rest is limited. In the United States, some of the largest cities are already running low on burial grounds, as are many other countries around the world.…

Campfire Inc., which helps individuals and small groups raise funds online, is looking to list stocks this year at a valuation of up to 200 billion yen ($ 1.8 billion), Ieiri said in an interview. . This is a long-awaited…

100 Tamil political prisoners are said to be held without charge. (Representative)Colombo: Sri Lanka on Thursday released 93 prisoners, including 16 suspected LTTE terrorists held without charge, after being pardoned by…

Workers put face masks on giant statue of Buddhist goddess to pray for pandemic endWorkers recently climbed a giant statue of a Buddhist goddess in Japan to place a custom-made mask on her face, an act purported to be a prayer for an end…

Russian security services have targeted Ak Tyan or "White Faith", a religious group at odds with local Buddhists. Neo-paganism raises fears of possible extremism. Young locals are increasingly fascinated by old religious beliefs.…

"Let me cut your hair, sweetie," Zhi Xiang said affectionately to a long-haired, rain-tangled stray dog ​​he just collected from the Shanghai kennel. 51-year-old Chinese monk Zhi Xiang is an animal…