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At the heart of the surge of global terrorism is the conflict among religions. Faith proves a strong reason for many to turn against humanity and the world religious leaders are now trying their very best to teach the people how to maintain peace and...
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Cool factor: Buddhist monk’s footprints in wood
Monk’s name: Hua Chi
My take: Lemme make it clear – it’s not photoshopped! Hua Chi, 70, a doctor in...
made popular May 1 2009
A Buddhist leader in the Tai province of Chiang Rai has announced plans for a new set of guidelines to curb the behaviour of homosexual and transgender monks.
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made popular Apr 30 2009
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The question that Indian Muslims should ask themselves now is simple: Who are we? Among the 120 millions of Muslims in India, only a tiny percentage descends from...
made popular Jan 23 2009
Wrapped in red silk and adorned with red flowers in her hair, Matani Shakya received approval from the priests and President Ram Baran Yadav in a centuries-old...
made popular Oct 8 2008
The roof of the world is back on the tourist itinerary with China reopening Tibet to foreign tourists three months after violent riots rocked this Himalayan region. A...
made popular Sep 13 2008
An online discussion prompted me to write on religion. Since religion is the hot debate around the world today and like politics people seem to form opinions based on...
made popular Aug 30 2008
Christian Thomas Kohl
Buddhism and Quantum Physics
A strange parallelism of two concepts of reality
Abstract. Rudyard Kipling, the famous english author of « The...
made popular Aug 8 2008
The Japanese have long taken an easygoing, buffetlike approach to religion, ringing out the old year at Buddhist temples and welcoming the new year, several hours...
made popular Jul 14 2008
Across Japan, Buddhism faces a confluence of problems, some familiar to religions in other wealthy nations, others unique to the faith here. While interest in Buddhism...
made popular Jul 14 2008
China reiterates that it had ruled Tibet for centuries but Tibetans say their country was independent during that era.
According to a latest report by Human Rights...
made popular Jun 19 2008
AP, Kuala Lumpur
A Malaysian Islamic court allowed a Muslim convert Thursday to return to her original faith of Buddhism, setting a precedent that could ease religious minorities’...
made popular May 8 2008
What is Zen?
The word Zen comes from Sanskrit dhyana (meditative absorption), which was translated into ch’an in Chinese, then into zenna, or Zen in Japanese. This...
made popular Apr 19 2008
AP, Beijing
China has branded the Dalai Lama a “wolf in monk’s robes” and his followers the “scum of Buddhism.” It stepped up the rhetoric Tuesday,...
made popular Apr 1 2008
Tibet, the land of Buddhist spiritualism, is to many a place of mystery and distinction. But to the Chinese, the issue of Tibet runs in their blood. In China, it is a...
made popular Oct 16 2007
It seems that ace photographer Steve McCurry, known for his romance with India, has fallen in love with everything Indian even Bollywood. This is evident when he chose...
made popular Sep 28 2007
Other then the race for being the next superpower, India and China are engaged in another competition also, that is for the ownership of world’s oldest religion,...
made popular Jun 21 2007
Dalit conversions on mass-scale do take place occasionally in India. It happened on Sunday again in Mumbai. This is being said as the biggest mass conversion in modern...
made popular May 28 2007
During the SAARC summit, the member countries had decided to develop and promote tourism among member countries. Now, India has decided to develop Buddhism as a big...
made popular Apr 27 2007
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