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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 note on the tourism bureau’s web site announcing the lifting of the ban states...
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Here’s the latest post from our intepid Brazil bureau chief, Gian Paul. While we’ve been fretting about the gyrations of the stock market, GP has been thinking...
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The war of words has never failed to brighten the most boring of cricket days, not that the five days of the first Test has seen any. Zaheer Khan took his bold batting...
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The headline may have been baffling. But India did win the match. That is an observation by those who were closely following the game.
The first Test between...
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You showed them these omnipotent power in the center that you are a power to reckon with. The savior of the Dalits, who are the Bahujans nowadays.
You showed...
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Police have arrested seven relatives of a 75-year-old widow for doing nothing to prevent the woman from killing herself by jumping into her husband’s funeral...
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A series of road accidents killed at least 48 people and injured another 64 in north and northeastern India on Tuesday, government officials and police said.
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With gold-plated ceilings, exotic fountains and the clink of champagne glasses, the Emporio Mall in New Delhi is the perfect place to..
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Lucky is the air that plays with her hair, the dogs that look her bare and the sunglass that she wears with care. But alas! Her life is at the verge of death every...
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It’s strange! Very strange! That we take the word of west even after the collapse of colonization. Dear Friends! I beg your attention and implementation of our own...
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Police say an overcrowded, speeding bus has crashed into a stationary truck in northeastern India, killing 23 people and wounding 44 others.
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The family of Solomon Digal was summoned by neighbors to what serves as a public square in front of the village tea shop.
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In the Hindu culture or tradition the mangalsutra holds an important place, especially with the wedded women of that religion. Hindu women hold the mangalsutra, to be a...
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“I had a lot of sex in the ashram” a Spanish friend told me today. A mischievous smile covered his face. “When the day’s yoga training finished, you...
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She was not feeling well, in fact she was feeling rotten inside, it has been twenty days, when she was rescued from the rooftop of the makeshift straw house, mercifully...
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EcoFactor: A rickshaw that can be powered by both pedal power and solar energy designed to encourage green transport.
A ride on a rickshaw today brings back some...
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THE REAL MIRACLE: LOVING LORD TRULY
ARVIND K.PANDEY
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as...
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A Silicon Valley company is claiming a major victory in its efforts to sell computers to schools that might otherwise be enticed by low-cost laptops such as the...
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The Dalai Lama was recovering Monday from surgery to remove gallstones and was likely to leave a New Delhi hospital early this week, a senior aide said.
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The Indian prime minister warned Monday that a recent wave of bloodshed that has left scores dead across India threatens the “fundamental underpinnings” of...
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Tendulkar fell on 49 after batting for over two and a half hours.
And also fell just 15 runs short of Brian Lara’s record of 11,953 runs immediately after tea.
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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...
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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...
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Buddhism and Quantum Physics
A strange parallelism of two concepts of reality
Abstract. Rudyard Kipling, the famous english author of « The...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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’...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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Lack of proper tourist infrastructure and connectivity to major Buddhist sites is robbing India of nearly one billion dollars (over Rs 4,500 crore) earning and a...
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And what to they hope to advertise Bollywood and Buddhism. With China to be biggest outbound market by 2020 with 100 million Chinese traveling out every year everybody...
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Location: Perched on the summit of the Jormo Zhaxi Ceri Mountain on the east bank of the Yarlung River, about five kilometers in the south from the Tradrug...
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