Perth's Buddhist community prays for MH370

by Amy McNeilage, Sydney Morning Herald, March 30, 2014

Ahead of hundreds of family members potentially descending on Perth to grieve, a Buddhist prayer ceremony was held at Fo Guang Shan Temple on Sunday for missing flight MH370.

Perth, Australia -- The anguished relatives of those on board the missing Malaysia Airlines flight are mostly thousands of miles from where the search for the wreckage is under way off the coast of Western Australia.

MISSING MH370: Caregiver sacrifices time for family of passengers

By Dawn Chan, New Straits Times, 19 March 2014

PETALING JAYA, Malaysia -- Whether it is a local or international mission, going off at a moment’s notice is normal for a Taiwan Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation Malaysian volunteer.

Buddhist economics: oxymoron or idea whose time has come?

By Kathleen Maclay, UC Berkeley, March 13, 2014

BERKELEY, CA (USA) -- University of California Berkeley economist Clair Brown acknowledges that “Buddhist economics” may seem like an oxymoron.

New BUDDHIFY 2 app teaches mindful meditation

ANI, Jan 14, 2014

Washington, USA -- A new app, BUDDHIFY 2, for iOS has been developed that teaches mindfulness-based meditation through a series of guided lessons.

Buddhist Psychotherapy

by Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D., Lankaweb, January 10, 2014

Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Renowned Psychologists like William James, Carl Jung, and Eric Fromm saw much of value in Buddhist philosophy and its positive impact on mental health. The modern mental health clinicians have found incomparable therapeutic efficacy in Buddhist psychotherapy.