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The Buddhist Channel, 8 April 2024
Dharamsala, HP (India) -- On 4 April 2024, a longstanding aspiration of a group of Sri Lankan Buddhists was realized as relics of the Buddha were presented to His Holiness the Dalai Lama by Ven. Dr. Waskaduwe Mahindawansa Maha Nayaka Thero, head of Amarapura Sambuddha Sasanodaya Maha Nikaya. The delegation, led by Dr. Damenda Porage, Founder President of the Sri Lanka-Tibetan Buddhist Brotherhood, journeyed to Dharamsala for the auspicious occasion.
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By Sidhant Sibal, WION, Apr 5, 2024
New Delhi, India -- A top Sri Lankan Buddhist leader has said that China has been blocking the visit of Tibetan Buddhist Spiritual leader, Dalai Lama to the country. Ven. Dr Waskaduwe Mahindawansa made the comments in an exclusive interview with our diplomatic correspondent Sidhant Sibal in Delhi.
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The Buddhist Channel, 18 March 2024
New Delhi, India - - India's Union Minister of Minority Affairs and Women & Child Development, Smriti Iranian has laid the foundation stone for 38 projects with the total estimated cost of Rs. 225 Cr. About USD 27 mil) approved under Buddhist Development Plan for the States of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and the Union Territory of Ladakh.
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The Buddhist Channel, 11 March 2024
Tawang, Arunacha Pradesh (India) -- The annual Gorsam Kora Festival, celebrated from March 7th to March 10th, attracted thousands of Bhutanese nationals, including Buddhist monks. Zemithang, the last administrative division of India in Arunachal Pradesh, shares its western border with Bhutan.
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By Senaka Weeraratna, Daily FT, 21 February 2024
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- An old boy who has expressed opposition in an article in the Daily FT recently, to the chanting of pirith in a Buddhist religious ceremony at Royal College on grounds that it is ‘anti secular’, has given a false interpretation of secularism.
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ANI, 20 December 2023
Bodhgaya, India -- The Dalai Lama inaugurated the three-day International Sangha Forum 2023 on Bridging Traditions, Embracing Modernity: A Dialogue on the Buddha’s Teaching in Today’s World on Wednesday morning.
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The Buddhist Channel, 19 December 2023
Kathmandu, Nepal -- Stefano Boeri Architetti recently disclosed the master plan for the Ramagrama Stupa in Nepal, introducing a design aimed at enhancing the revered Buddhist location.
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The Buddhist Channel, 19 December 2023
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's leading Buddhist prelates have appealed to the government to ensure the safety of the birthplace of Buddhism in the country following the decision to remove military personnel stationed at the historical pilgrimage site.
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Deccan Chronicle, December 15, 2023
Visakhapatnam, India -- Andhra University’s College of Arts and Commerce has announced the commencement of the M.A. programme in Pali and Buddhist Studies for the academic year 2023-24. Professor A. Narasimha Rao, the principal of the College, highlighted that this unique programme is the first of its kind in the state.
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The Buddhist Channel, December 15, 2023
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka has recently established a specialized unit within the Criminal Investigation Division (CID) to investigate incidents involving insults to religion. This development comes after the apprehension of a controversial pastor and a self-proclaimed monk for derogatory comments about Lord Buddha and Buddhism.
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By Aanchal Kumari, ANI, November 29, 2023
New Delhi, India -- A two-day General Assembly Meeting was held by the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC), a global Buddhist platform, in New Delhi with the aim to elect office bearers of the world body for the next three years.
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The Buddhist Channel, 25 Oct 2023
Gujarat, India -- In a noteworthy event organized by the Gujarat Buddhist Academy, nearly 400 Hindus from across the state of Gujarat converted to Buddhism on the auspicious occasion of Dussehra. This annual gathering marked the 14th such ceremony held on Dussehra, symbolizing a growing movement towards a new religious identity.
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The Buddhist Channel, 23 October 2023
LUMBINI, NEPAL -- In a historic move dedicated to the protection, preservation, conservation, development and management of the long-forgotten Ramagrama Stupa, The Promised Land Pvt. Ltd. - a company based in Kathmandu - has officially announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with The Lumbini Development Trust.
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The Buddhist Channel, 14 Oct 2023
Lahore, Pakistan -- In the heart of what is now Pakistan, nestled within the Gandhara region, once thrived one of the world's most ancient religions - Buddhism. With a legacy of Buddhist art and culture, Pakistan should be a haven for Buddhists, a site of pilgrimage and a living testament to history. However, the stark reality reveals a different narrative — one of near-extinction, persecution, and fading heritage.
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The Buddhist Channel, 6 October 2023
Dharamsala, HP (India) – On a crisp morning bathed in the radiant light of the rising sun, His Holiness the Dalai Lama graced the Tsuglagkhang with his presence, bestowing a Chenrezig empowerment upon a gathering of eager disciples.
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The Buddhist Channel, September 6, 2023
Dharamsala, HP (India) -- Under the radiant morning sun, His Holiness the Dalai Lama strolled from his residence to the Tsuglagkhang, a path lined with devotees reciting mantras such as "Om ara patsa na dhi" and "Mig-tse-ma." The spiritual atmosphere was palpable as the Dalai Lama embarked on a significant session.
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The Buddhist Channel, September 6, 2023
Kathmandu, Nepal -- In a testament to collaboration and cultural preservation, a 5th-century Buddhist Stupa, once ravaged by the devastating 2015 earthquake in Nepal, has been resurrected with the generous support of India.
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The Buddhist Channel, 2 September 2023
Mustang, Nepal - Nestled in the shadows of the world's highest mountains, the remote village of Kagbeni, located in Nepal's Mustang district, recently faced a daunting climatic ordeal that left its residents grappling with the aftermath of a catastrophic flash flood and landslides.
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The Buddhist Channel, 29 August 2023
Khaltse, Ladakh, India -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama addressed a huge gathering of over 25,000 people on the teaching ground in Khaltse, Ladakh on 19 August 2023. The attendees, who had come from far and wide, were met with a warm welcome from the spiritual leader, who emphasized the significance of trust, devotion, and the pursuit of a meaningful life.
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The Buddhist Channel, 28 August 2023
Leh, Ladakh (India) -- Nestled amidst the majestic mountains and serene landscapes, the history of Buddhism in Kashmir emerges like a tale from the ancient scrolls. Delving into the annals of time, we uncover the profound influence of this peaceful faith in the picturesque region.
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The Buddhist Channel, 24 August 2023
New Delhi, India -- In a remarkable achievement, on August 23, 2023, the Chandrayaan-3 probe successfully became the first spacecraft to land near the lunar south pole, solidifying India's position as the fourth nation to achieve a lunar landing. The soft touchdown of Chandrayaan-3 marks a monumental milestone for the country, propelling it into the exclusive moon-landing club.
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The Buddhist Channel, 20 August 2023
New Delhi, India -- In a display of cultural evolution, the second season of Amazon Prime's "Made in Heaven" has cast a spotlight on the transformative power of Ambedkarite* Buddhist weddings, underscoring a shift away from traditional Hindu rituals.
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The Buddhist Channel, 16 Aug 2023
New Delhi, India -- Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) is set to provide an enticing opportunity for domestic tourists to explore the rich heritage of Buddhism with a remarkable 20% discount on the renowned Buddhist Circuit Tourist Train package.
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The Buddhist Channel, 16 Aug 2023
LUCKNOW, India -- In a significant development that further deepens the spiritual ties between Bhutan and India, a Bhutanese temple dedicated to Lord Buddha is set to grace the city of Lucknow.
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The Buddhist Channel, 14 Aug 2023
Leh, Ladakh (India) -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama embarked on a symbolic journey of unity and understanding as he visited the Imam Bargah, a prominent mosque in Chuchot Yokma, located just across the Indus River. This morning, representatives from both Shia and Sunni communities warmly welcomed His Holiness, underscoring his commitment to fostering inter-religious harmony.
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The Buddhist Channel, 9 August 2023
Lumbini, Nepal -- The construction of the India International Centre for Buddhist Culture and Heritage (IICBCH) formally began at Lumbini in Nepal with the Bhoomi Pooja rituals on Sunday.
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The Buddhist Channel, August 7, 2023
Dharamsala, India -- A groundbreaking moment in the world of Tibetan Buddhism unfolds as a record-breaking 132 Tibetan Buddhist nuns embark on this year's Geshema examinations, the highest academic degree in the Gelugpa tradition of Vajrayana Buddhism. Hosted by the esteemed Jamyang Choling Institute in Dharamsala, the four-year exams commenced on July 21.
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The Buddhist Channel, 6 Aug 2023
New Delhi, India -- In the midst of the ongoing Gyanvapi mosque issue, the call for an archaeological survey of Hindu temples has reignited a long-standing debate about whether Hindu kings destroyed Buddhist structures in ancient India. Swami Prasad Maurya, a prominent leader of the Samajwadi Party, has advocated for such a survey to determine if many Hindu temples were erected after demolishing pre-existing Buddhist religious sites.
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The Buddhist Channel, 3 August 2023
Shravasti, India -- A historic event unfolded in Shravasti, a sacred Buddhist site where Buddha spent 25 of his retreats, as 145 nuns from different countries gathered to participate in the first-ever annual rains retreat (yarne) on 1 August 2023.
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The Buddhist Channel, 2 August 2023
Reckong Peo, Himachal Pradesh (India) -- Reckong Peo, the captivating capital of Kinnaur district in Himachal Pradesh, provides a rejuvenating experience for adventurous travelers. Perched at an elevation of 2,300 meters, the place is renowned for its traditional architecture, vibrant culture, rich Buddhist spirituality and sprawling apple orchards, thriving in the mild climate throughout the year.
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The Buddhist Channel, 17 July 2023
Timphu, Bhutan -- As you journey through enchanting Bhutan, from the humble abodes to the sacred monasteries and majestic dzongs, you will encounter a common and recurring symbol - the painting of the "Four Harmonious Friends". Whether adorning the walls of a home or gracing the intricate fabric of a Thangka, this image, known as Thunpa Puen Zhi, offers a glimpse into the heart of Bhutanese culture. However, behind its ubiquity lies a deeper meaning that often goes unnoticed.
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The Buddhist Channel, July 16, 2023
Delhi, India - The International Buddhist Confederation's Global Buddhist Summit in April 2023 witnessed an inspiring speech by prominent Buddhist teacher Ven. Bhikshuni Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo. The founder of the Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery, who is a renowned advocate for women's empowerment and spiritual education, emphasized the revival of education for Himalayan Buddhist nuns in the esteemed Nalanda tradition.
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The Buddhist Channel, 26 June 2023
Palampur, HP, India -- In 1999, Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo established Dongyu Gatsal Ling (DGL) Nunnery in the state of Himachal Pradesh, India at the request of His Eminence the 8th Khamtrul Rinpoche Shedrup Nyima. Their shared vision was to enable girls and young women from Tibet and the Himalayas to find their voices as legitimate Buddhist monastics.
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by Varinder Bhatia, Indian Express, June 20, 2023
Dalai Lama to impart teachings to the Buddhists and people from other communities in Leh, Ladakh from July 21st till July 23rd.
Chandigarh, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama is once again all set to visit Leh, Ladakh next month. He turns 88 years on July 6th and is expected to land in Leh on July 10th. The Dalai Lama had last visited Leh, Ladakh in July 2022, after a gap of four years.
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The Buddhist Channel, 9 June 2023
Assam, India -- The monastic orders of Buddhism in North East India have always been renowned for their peaceful serenity and spiritual doctrines. However, in recent times, they have evolved into environmental custodians, merging their religious values with a deep-rooted obligation towards the environment.
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The Buddhist Channel, 4 June 2023
Dharamsala, India -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama recently engaged with nearly 500 students who have recently graduated from or are currently studying in the Nalanda Masters Course, the Nalanda Diploma Course offered by Tibet House, New Delhi. These courses, led by Geshé Dorji Damdul from Tibet House, have attracted over 4,000 students from 98 countries.
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The Buddhist Channel, 1 June 2023
Dharamsala, India -- On the second day of teachings for Tibetan youths, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama gave the 1,000 strong participants the permission to "practice Manjushri, the Bodhisattva who embodies wisdom and intelligence".
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The Buddhist Channel, 31 May 2023
DHARAMSALA, India - Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama launched a two-day special education for Tibetan adolescents on Tuesday. More than 2,000 students from various schools and universities at home and abroad gathered on Tuesday at Tuglakkan, Tibet's main temple here in Dharamsala.
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by Dorji Wangchuk (PhD), The Buddhist Channel, 31 May 2023
Thimphu, Bhutan -- Bhutan is a land filled with temples, known as lhakhangs, and monasteries (goemba or gonpa), most of which are located on high spectacular mountain ridges, such as Taktshang, the Tiger’s Nest. While not grand as Dzongs (traditional Bhutanese fortresses, which now serves as administrative centres and monasteries), lhakhangs and goembas functions not only as religious centres, they also play an important role as community centres as almost all village social and cultural functions events are held there.
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By Kalinga Seneviratne, IDN-InDepthNews, 11 May 2023 (IDN/LCN)
SINGAPORE | THIMPHU -- A recent visit by a group of Vietnamese Buddhists to learn and experience the Mahayana tradition of Buddhism has alerted the Bhutan authorities to the potential of Buddhist cultural tourism to one of the world’s most scenic countries landlocked between India and China in the Himalayan mountains.
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The Buddhist Channel, in collaboration with Buddhistdoor and IDN, 21 April 2023
New Delhi, India - The Dalai Lama on April 21 participated in a global Buddhist conference hosted by India. The Tibetan spiritual leader attended the second day of the event here and addressed delegates from 30 countries which include monks, Buddhist scholars and practitioners and heads of Buddhist organisations from across the globe.
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The Buddhist Channel, in collaboration with Buddhistdoor and IDN, 20 April 2023
New Delhi, India -- The Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi, inaugurated the Global Buddhist Summit at Hotel Ashok in New Delhi on April 20, 2023. The two-day Summit is being hosted by the Ministry of Culture in collaboration with the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC), and it is an effort towards engaging the global Buddhist Dhamma leadership and scholars on matters of Buddhist and universal concerns.
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The Buddhist Channel, 11 April 2023
New Delhi, India -- The International Buddhist Confederation, (IBC) supported by the Indian Ministry of culture, will be hosting the Global Buddhist Summit (GBS) on 20-21 April at the Ashok Hotel. The aim of the conference is to focus on a Buddhist response for dealing with the most pressing challenges the world is facing.
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by Brot Coburn, Nepali Times, Published on the Buddhist Channel, 30 April 2022
A Christian evangelical group is converting Buddhists in holy Himalayan valleys
GORKHA, Nepal -- In 2014, a group called MountainChild signed a 5-year agreement with the Social Welfare Council to open schools in rural Nepal: the Sama Learning Centre in Nubri of North Gorkha is one of them.
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by Sahina Shrestha, Nepali Times, March 16, 2022
It is not just the Valley's main temples that need to be protected, but also the small neighbourhood stupa
Kathmandu, Nepal -- Kathmandu’s skyline used to be outlined by slanting tile roofs and gilded temple spires, the towns were surrounded by gold and green terrace fields.
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The Sunday Times, May 29, 2018
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- As the world commemorates the thrice-blessed Vaisakya day this full moon Tuesday morn, how did Lanka get the date wrong?
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by Manoranjan Sharma, Daily Times, May 24, 2018
Taxila, Pakistan -- At Lumbini in Nepal, we have a connection with Buddhism like a baby has with the breast. It is religious and spiritual, yes, but far more. Since it is the birthplace of Lord Buddha and a pilgrimage site, Buddhism – its sacraments and ceremonies – flows through the streets and sites of Lumbini like blood through veins. It is a part of our everyday life, like to a Muslim living in Mecca or a Christian in Vatican. So when I heard from my friends Bikram Pandey and Sarad Pradhan – who had been to Pakistan on the Buddha Circuit Tourism – about the country’s Hindu and Buddhist monuments, I decided to go and explore our heritage there.
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By L. B. Senaratne, Sunday Times, April 29, 2018
Colombo,Sri Lanka -- The two main monasteries Malwatta and Asgiri will proceed with Upasampada rituals, or higher ordinations, from May 29, Vesak Day to June 27, the Poson Poya Day. The two viharayas do not accept April 29, as Vesak Day, which they claim is the work of a misguided astrologer.
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by Santosh Patnaik, The Hindu, Feb 11, 2018
Consulate-General says it will attract global tourists to A.P.
Visakhapatnam, India -- After announcing construction of a world-class Buddha temple at Amaravati, Thailand is ready to partner with Andhra Pradesh for development of a Buddhist circuit to promote international tourists from ASEAN member-countries, Japan, Sri Lanka and other countries visiting the State.
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Daily Mirror, Sept 29, 2017
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Maha Nayaka of the Amarapura Maha Nikaya Venerable Kotugoda Dhammawasa Thera and the Buddha Sasana Karya Sadaaka Mandalaya, a leading Buddhist organization, has opposed certain sections of the Interim Report on the new Constitution that was presented by the steering committee of the Constitutional Assembly recently.
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by Abhishek Saha, Hindustan Times, Sep 11, 2017
Ladakh’s apex religious body threatens communal unrest unless the woman is “brought back”, asks chief minister Mehbooba Mufti for an annulment of the marriage
Srinagar, Kashmir (India) -- A marriage between a Buddhist woman and Muslim man has stoked tensions in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ladakh, with the region’s apex religious body threatening communal unrest unless the woman is “brought back”.
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by Yangse Drubgyud Tenzin, Kuensel Online, July 29, 2017
Timphu, Bhutan -- In the past 20 years, our small country has been bombarded with modern influences from television to cell phones, the Internet, celebrities, fashions, superhero models, advertising, and news sound-bites.
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by the Venerable Dr Omalpe Sobhitha Mahathera, InDepthNews, 19 July 2017
ENBILIPITIYA, Sri Lanka -- There will be many answers to the question: which is the country where the happiest people live? In response many famous, developed nations will come to mind, but you will be surprised that the name of a little-known country could be the right answer to this question. It is Bhutan, the wonderful and amazing country that beats all others on the happiness index.
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AP, July 12, 2017
Prime Minister assured Buddhist monks that the new constitution will not take away the primary status given to Buddhism.
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's prime minister said on Wednesday that Buddhism will remain paramount on the bitterly divided island, seeking to head off protests led by the powerful Buddhist clergy against proposed changes to the constitution.
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MENAFN - NewsIn.Asia, July 4, 2017
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's top Buddhist priests have jointly appealed to the government not to proceed with its plan to write a new constitution for the country or even amend the existing constitution.
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The Nation, May 23, 2017
Islamabad, Pakistan -- Pakistan is a real friend of Sri Lanka who always stood with it in conflicts, natural calamities which the entire Sri Lankan nation acknowledges.
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News Nation Bureau, May 9, 2017
New Delhi, India -- The reason why Buddha Purnima is also known as Vesak because it is celebrated in the "Baisakh" or the "Vaisakha" month.
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By Rajitha Weerakoon, Sunday Times, May 7, 2017
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- As Sri Lanka prepares to host the UN Day of Vesak, Ven. Daranagama Kusala Dhamma Thera recalls the efforts of late Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar to make this day a reality and the events planned
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India.com, May 8, 2017
Here is all you should know about Buddha Purnima 2017 date, significance and celebration in India.
New Delhi, India -- Buddha Purnima 2017 is just round the corner. India, being the land of the origin of Buddhism, holds Buddha Purnima as an extremely significant day.
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by Amarnath Tewary, The Hindu, March 19, 2017
Patna, India -- At Nalanda conclave, President Mukherjee says no part of the world is free from scourge of violence
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The Nation, March 2, 2017
Rawalpindi, Pakistan -- Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) is planning to organise a Buddhist conference with an aim to promote tourism in the country.
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The Buddhist Channel, Feb 14, 2017
Nagpur, India -- The 4th Mahakaruna Diwas of this year was held in the beautiful city of Nagpur with more than 5000 Buddhists participants. Various cultural programmes and lectures was organized at the historical Deekshabhoomi to celebrate Mahakaruna Diwas on 11th February, 2017.
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Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation, 31 January 2017
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The National Buddhist Intellectual Council appreciates the President Maithipala Sirisena’s service to strengthen piriven education.
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By Shehzad Khan, The Express Tribune, January 21, 2017
SWAT, Pakistan -- An ancient double-domed structure still stands tall near Mingora after having survived the cruel ravages of time, vandalism and official neglect.
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by Malinda Seneviratne, The Daily Mirror, Jan 19, 2017
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The ‘enlightened’ people entrusted with the grave task of recommending changes to the constitution have sought to turn Sri Lanka into an official secular state. Although the Final Report of the Consultation Task Force on Reconciliation Mechanisms (CTF) doesn’t mention it, this particular recommendation clearly seeks to do away with Article 9 of the Constitution.
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by S Balakrishnan, The Sangai Express, Jan 5, 2017
Assam, India -- Hajo, 24 kms from Guwahati in Assam, a quite little spot, is said to have connection with Buddhism.
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ColomboPage News Desk, Dec 17, 2016
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -- Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, who is on a three-day visit to Malaysia from Thursday, met with the King of Malaysia Sultan Muhammad V on Friday.
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Indian Express, Nov 4, 2016
This comes as part of the serious efforts by the AP govt to promote Buddhist centres in the state, and the ancient Buddhist town of Amaravati as a major tourist destination.
Andhra Pradesh, India -- The Andhra Pradesh Government has proposed to hold ‘Kalachakra’ initiation - ‘wheel of time’ or ‘time-cycles’ rituals in Buddhism, where disciples are initiated into higher forms of meditation and rituals - in the presence of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. This comes as part of the serious efforts by the AP govt to promote Buddhist centres in the state, and the ancient Buddhist town of Amaravati as a major tourist destination.
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by Ruhi Bhasin, The Indian Express, November 6, 2016
Mumbai, India -- On his tour to India during 1931-38, for regenerating Buddhism, Fujii Guruji met Mahatma Gandhi and actively participated in the freedom movement of India.
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Republica, October 19, 2016
DOLAKHA, Nepal -- Buddhist college has come into operation in the district. The first ever college of its kind in the district will offer arts and humanities courses in Buddhist philosophy and teachings.
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by Frances Bulathsinghala, Dawn, Oct 7, 2016
Lahore, Pakistan -- Pakistan and Sri Lanka have embarked on a new journey in bilateral relations by benefiting from a common Buddhist heritage.
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PTI, Oct 5, 2016
Varanasi, India -- The International Buddhist Conclave-2016 aimed to showcase Buddhist heritage and pilgrimage sites in the country, opened its sessions in Sarnath today, the heartland of Buddhist pilgrimage.
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Lanka Daily News, Sept 14, 2016
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- 2017 will be named as a year for the implementation of well planned programmes for the promotion of Buddhism, said President Maithripala Sirisena.
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IANS, August 31, 2016
Leh, Ladakh (India) -- Ladakh region in Jammu And Kashmirhas suffered from years of neglect from the central government and ministers from Delhi "come and make sweet promises only to forget" (sic), a top Buddhist monk has said.
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The Himalayan Times, August 21, 2016
Nepal, Kathmandu -- Most of human sufferings are unnecessary and can be easily avoided, a Buddhist scholar from Hong Kong, Venerable Hin Hung, has said.
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Newsgram, August 19, 2016
Mumbai, India -- A Mumbai-based architecture firm Sameep Padora and Associates have recently completed building a Buddhist Learning Centre in Maharashtra. The architect wanted to renew the lost traditions that went into making Buddhist learning and meditation centres.
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By P K Balachandran, New Indian Express, 18 August 2016
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- The Governor of Sri Lanka’s Hindu Tamil-majority Northern Province, Reginold Cooray, has defended the building of Buddhist temples in the province saying that it is only part of a boom in the building of places of worship there.
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The Indian Express, Jul 30, 2016
Ahead of Uttar Pradesh polls, a yatra (Sanskrit: 'journey', 'procession') by Buddhist monks across the state is perhaps the party’s biggest Dalit outreach at a time when it battles a backlash
New Delhi, India -- The Dhamma Chetna Yatra is on its way to Mathura. Suddenly, the first car of the convoy stops near Raya town. Former local BJP MLA Ajay Kumar Poiya steps down, signals the convoy to stop, and approaches a Buddhist monk in the car behind. “There’s an Ambedkar statue here. Let’s garland it,” Poiya says. Some 40 monks come out, pay tributes to the Dalit leader. Just three minutes, and the yatra moves on.
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by Abhilash Gaur, Times of India, July 8, 2016
Ladakh, India -- One thing the British learnt from the Mutiny of 1857 was not to grease their Indian troops’ cartridges with lard and beef tallow.
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Assam Times, July 12, 2016
Assam, India -- A plantation drive was carried out on Tuesday at Bodoland Buddhist Park along Gaurang River bank involving villager and social activists.
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Kuensel Online, July 1, 2016
The three-day conference is open to the public
Timphu, Bhutan -- More than 300 international participants are expected to participate in a three-day conference on continuity and change within both historical and contemporary expressions of Vajrayana Buddhism in Thimphu from that ends on July 3.
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Lanka Daily Times, June 19, 2016
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- The most sacred relics of Lord Buddha from Taxila are currently on display for general public in Thanthirimalaya Rajamaha Viharaya, Thanthirimalaya, Anuradhapura for two days on the occasion of Poson Full Moon Poya Day being commemorated on Sunday.
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by Divya A, The India Express, May 31, 2016
The map of the Buddhist circuit as envisaged by the ministry comprises Bodh Gaya, Vaishali, Rajgir and Kushinagar in Bihar, Sarnath, and Shravasti in UP, along with Kapilavastu and Lumbini in Nepal where Buddha was born.
New Delhi, India -- The Ministry of Tourism is set to announce the Buddhist circuit as India’s first trans-national tourist circuit. The effort will promote tourism in Nepal and Sri Lanka alongside that in India, with sites in the Buddhist circuit as well as the Ramayana circuit spanning the other two countries.
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Press Trust of India, May 21, 2016
New Delhi, India -- President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday congratulated people on the eve of Buddha Purnima, stressing on Lord Buddha's message of love, compassion, non-violence and equality.
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by Sheezan Nezami, TNN, May 19, 2016
Patna, India -- Now, there is no need for Patnaites to visit Bodh Gaya or any other place to learn Vipassana, a meditation technique. A permanent Vipassana training centre would come up at Buddha Smriti Park here by the end of August this year where one can learn the art of meditation free of cost.
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by BIMALENDU MOHANTY, Daily Pioneer, 21 May 2016
Bhubaneswar, India -- The population of Buddhists in Odisha is estimated at 120,000 living in 17 main villages scattered all over the State so far identified. A majority of these Buddhists have taken to weaving as their professional occupation since centuries past. They are classified to be belonging to the Srabak community dedicated to the weaving profession. Many Buddhists in the State do not take to agriculture at all. They are also otherwise known as Saraka.
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AP, May 19, 2016
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Hundreds of stunned residents of Sri Lankan villages buried by mudslides took shelter in nine temporary camps set up in schools and a Buddhist temple, where they were being given food, blankets and basic medical treatment.
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BY Robert Michael Poole, May 19, 2016
Timphu, Bhutan -- Wanderers and pilgrims who have ventured to the top of the mountains of Bhutan have had watchful eyes looking over them for centuries. The peaks of the countries rugged interior are populated by mighty yaks, who these days wander occasionally through the colorful rectangular prayer flags that decorate the mountain ridges, stamped with woodblock prints depicting the Buddha, the Dharma (teachings) and the Sangha (community).
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Press Trust of India, May 19, 2016
Kathmandu, Nepal -- A two-day international Buddhist conference to mark the 2,560th birth anniversary of Lord Buddha began here today with Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli, advocating Buddhism as a means to avoid extremism in all forms.
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The News, May 19, 2016
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The Government of Pakistan has handed over the most sacred relics of Lord Buddha to the Government of Sri Lanka today in a special ceremony arranged at the historic Taxila Museum today, says a press release received here today from Sri Lanka.
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The Hindu, May 18, 2016
Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh (India) -- The Andhra Pradesh government need to implement complete ban on alcohol in the State on lines of the Bihar government, said Buddhist Monk Ven. Dhammadhaja Bhikku of the Saddhama Dipika Trust here on Tuesday.
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by Colleen Long, The Associated Press, April 28, 2016
NEW YORK, USA -- An ancient stone sculpture of Buddha’s footprints that was smuggled into the United States and had been expected to sell for more than $1 million was returned to the government of Pakistan on Wednesday.
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By Tenzin Dharpo, Phayul, April 18, 2016
DHARAMSHALA, India -- The Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama advised a group of school prefects from Tibetan schools in India and Nepal to take the onus to change the new century for a more peaceful and compassionate existence.
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by Frances Bulathsinghala, Dawn, Apr 20, 2016
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Pakistan is developing the Gandhara Trail to attract Buddhist pilgrims from Sri Lanka and other parts of Asia and to demonstrate its interest in preserving and showcasing its non-Islamic heritage.
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Lotuscomm.org, 30 March 2016
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Since a new government came to power last year, Sinhalese communities and Buddhist temples in the north-east of the island are facing increasing threats of eviction from Tamil politicians and their henchmen, Venerable Tissapura Sri Gunaratana, Chief Priest of the Sri Sambodhi temple in Kokilai in Malativu district told a group of local media representatives touring the area recently.
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by Senaka Weeraratna, The Buddhist Channel, March
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The moral stature of Sri Lanka’s Constitution would be greatly enhanced if it recognizes the claims of other living beings for compassion and appropriate consideration from human beings, and the protection of their legal rights.
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UCA News, March 1, 2016
Bodhgaya, India -- An interreligious workshop in the eastern Indian state of Bihar focused on ways religions can work together to create a healthy and peaceful planet.
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by Mark Elliott, Travel Daily Media, 14 March, 2016
New Delhi, India -- Air India has introduced a new ‘Air Pass’ covering major cities of Buddhist Interest in India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka.
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TNN, Mar 5, 2016
Kendrapada, India -- A group of French tourists, including noted Buddhist researcher Anne Marie, on Friday visited Buddhist sites at Kaima, Tarapur, Deuli, Radhanagar and Langudi in Jajpur district.
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The Island, February 27, 2016
Sri Lanka’s first monumental step towards the protection of its animals, says Otara Foundation
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Otara Foundation has welcomed the approval of the Animal Welfare Bill by the Cabinet of Ministers as a step in the right direction and pledged to continue its advocacy in order to ensure the enactment of the Bill as law.
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By Kalinga Seneviratne, Lotus Communication Network, 20 February 2016
Singapore -- A bill tabled in the Sri Lankan parliament in January to create a legal framework to control the behavior and conduct of Buddhist monks has created deep divisions within the majority Buddhist community in the country regarding its intentions and implementation.
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Daily Pioneer, 21 February 2016
Bhopal, India -- Fifth international Buddhist festival is scheduled here on February 27 and 28 on the occasion of the 125th birth anniversary of Bhimrao Ambedkar. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has been invited as the chief guest at the programme.
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By Varsha Torgalkar, Pune Mirror, Feb 2, 2016
BARTI and govt-appointed committee will oversee translation of the Tripitaka as part of Dr Ambedkar's 125th birth anniversary
Maharashtra, India -- In a much-delayed but nevertheless welcome initiative, the Maharashtra government has finally decided to translate the precious Buddhist scripture, Tripitaka, into Marathi to commemorate the 125th birth anniversary year of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar.
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by Shoeb Khan, TNN, Jan 31, 2016
JAIPUR, India - Much before the forts and palaces came into existence here, Rajasthan ostensibly had well-defined Buddhist monasteries or complexes at four places - Bhairat in Alwar, Kholvi in Jhalawar, Bandarez in Dausa and Ramgoan in Tonk.
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By Ashanthi Warunasuriya, The Sunday Leader, Jan 24, 2016
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The proposed Theravada Bhikku Dialogue Act which will enable every Bhikku to act in compliance with the provisions of the registered Chapter or Kathikawatha, was presented to parliament recently.
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by Pranava K Chaudhary, TNN, Jan 10, 2016
Patna, India -- Patna University will soon collaborate with Buddhist countries to promote Buddhist studies, which will bring the university on international radar. For this purpose, an international meet will be held here later this year, in which several Asian delegates are expected to be present.
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by Bella Jaisinghani, TNN, Jan 8, 2016
Mumbai, India -- An institute for Buddhist studies headquartered in Mumbai launched a centre for spiritual practice in rural Maharashtra Thursday.
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by Senaka Weeraratna, The Buddhist Channel, Jan 12, 2016
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- In the light of the proposed changes to the Constitution of Sri Lanka now under consideration and growing accusations of contrived attempts to neutralise the applicability of Article 9 in the Constitution that imposes a mandatory duty on the State to give to Buddhism the foremost place and protect and foster the Buddha Sasana, while assuring to all religions the rights granted by Articles 10 and 14(1)(e), an important question has arisen “ What is the relationship that should exist in the present day between the State and Buddhism?
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by Kalinga Seneviratne, The Buddhist Channel, Jan 5,
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Dalada Maligawa in the ancient hill capital of Kandy where the Tooth Relic of the Buddha is enshrined, is held in high esteem around the Buddhist world and millions of pilgrims visit the temple each year. It is considered as the pinnacle of Sinhalese Buddhism. Yet, in recent years, their management has been openly criticized by many leading Buddhist monks and lay leaders in Sri Lanka.
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Express News Service, 4th January 2016
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Giving a new look to Islamic Pakistan in keeping with changing times, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will be breaking a time honoured religious taboo to visit Sri Lanka’s holiest Buddhist shrine, the Temple of the Sacred Tooth at Kandy, when he is in the island nation on an official visit between January 4 and 6.
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ANI, December 21, 2015
Agartala, India -- A three-day International Buddhism seminar concluded here on Sunday with a resolution to steer the global discourse on climate change, environment and conservation towards a responsible and sustainable model based on the Buddhist principles and values of interdependence and respect for nature.
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The Hindu, Dec 15, 2015
Karnataka, India -- The Dalai Lama is currently on a month-long visit to Karnataka, but a glance at census figures may have him worried.
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by Shravan Nune, Jagrandosh, 14 Dec, 2015
Ladakh, India -- Losar, the biggest Tibetan Buddhist Festival began on 12 December 2015 in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir. The festival marks the beginning of New Year for Buddhists.
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by Yeshe Choesang, Tibet Post Internaitonal, 5 December 2015
Dharamshala, India -- The spiritual leader of Tibet His Holiness the Dalai Lama has expressed his sympathy to the thousands of people who have been displaced by the recent flooding in Tamil Nadu.
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PTI, 1 Dec, 2015
NEW DELHI, India -- A comprehensive plan is in the offing to develop the Buddhist circuit in the country, a Parliamentary panel has been informed months after it rapped the government for lack of inter-ministerial coordination in this regard.
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Deccan Herald, Dec 2, 2015
Bengaluru, India -- Eighth edition of the Buddhist festival organised by the Ministry of Culture kickstarted in the City on Tuesday with an array of cultural activities at the Jnana Jyothi auditorium on the Central College premises.
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by Aparna Banerji, Tribune News Service, November 14, 2015
Jalandhar, India -- The visit of the Dalai Lama to the LPU today evoked a rich forgotten history of Jalandhar which, though profound and interesting, rarely finds mainstream mention. Both in the very immediate and farther past, Jalandhar has had deep Buddhist leanings.
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ANI, 13 November 2015
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Thousands of people from all walks of life attended the funeral of dissident Buddhist monk Maduluwawe Sobitha on Thursday. Sobitha was 73 and died last Sunday in Singapore, where he was receiving treatment after heart surgery.
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Lanka Daily News, Nov 11, 2015
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- "It is with great shock and sorrow that we hear of the passing-away of Ven. Maduluwawe Sobitha Maha Thera on November 8", states the Sri Lanka-China Buddhist Friendship Association in a release.
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by Debabrata Mohapatra, TNN, Nov 9, 2015
BHUBANESWAR, India -- In a boost to Buddhist tourism in the state, Air India on Sunday started operations between Varanasi and Bhubaneswar. The flight will be available on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays.
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One India, October 31, 2015
New Delhi, India -- With eight Indians and 44 foreigners on board, the Buddhist Circuit Special Train, operated by Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), embarked on its first journey of the season on Saturday.
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by Ram Karan, the Hindu, Oct 25, 2015
Amaravati, India -- The State’s search for a new identity has found it rediscovering its Buddhist past, both to attract investments and to craft a new culture.
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by Muzamil Jaleel, The Indian Express, Oct 21, 2015
Priyapal Bante, a monk of the Chakma tribe and settled in Bodh Gaya, said they are waiting for a Supreme Court verdict. “We expect justice will be done. If not, we will go to the UN,” he said.
Bodh Gaya, India -- Away from the caste, vikas and dal debates, a small community voted last week with a demand of its own — one they say no one in Patna or Delhi listens to. Bihar’s Buddhists want the management of one of their holiest temples, Maha Bodhi , restored to Buddhists.
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by Senaka Weeraratna, Lankaweb, October 12, 2015
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Dr Lilaknath Weerasinghe, M.B.B.S., F.R.C.S., F.C.S.S.L.,General Surgeon, Kandy Teaching Hospital and former President of SUCCESS Sri Lanka (Jayagrahanaya) passed away at a private Hospital in Kandy on the evening of October 11, 2015. He was 69 years old at the time of his death.
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The Buddhist Channel, Oct 13, 2015
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Dharma Voices for Animals (Sri Lanka – Colombo Chapter) will be inaugurated on October 18, 2015 at a ceremony commencing at 4.00 p.m. at the Dharmavijaya Foundation Auditorium in Colombo.
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by Vinod Khanal,TNN, Sep 30, 2015
ALLAHABAD, India -- The tourism department had tied up with National Geographic to prepare a documentary featuring the famous tourists destinations of cities like Allahabad, Agra and Varanasi along with districts falling under 'Buddhist Circuit' to attract foreign tourists. The tourism department has also engaged an advertisement agency to prepare a promotional campaign for the state.
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DNA India, 5 October 2015
New Delhi, India -- Hopes for the state enacting a separate Budhhist Law, which is pending for last 59 years, have been revived for the Budhhist community as the government has asked an experts' committee to submit its best possible final draft for the same in a month.
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by Naresh Mitra,TNN, Oct 2, 2015
GUWAHATI, India -- The mist-covered mountains surrounding Dirang valley in Arunachal Pradesh's West Kameng district woke up to the soothing notes of Buddhist chants and lama dances as the five-day-long Bodh Sanskriti Mahotsav kicked off on Thursday.
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by Layne Mayard, The Buddhist Channel, Sept 29, 2015
After the Nepal earthquakes this past spring, a group of monks at Ka-Nying Shedrup Ling monastery in Boudhanath, Nepal formed an emergency relief team to support the surrounding community.
Kathmandu, Nepal -- In spite of their own difficult circumstances, their compassion for others motivated selfless service to those floundering in the confusing aftermath of this natural disaster. Their resilience and determination exemplifies a spontaneous practice of the Six Perfections, an inspiration to anyone with a sincere wish to benefit others.
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by P. Sujatha Varma, The Hindu, Sept 27, 2015
Andhra Pradesh, India -- Andhra Pradesh Tourism officials are in the final stages of signing an MoU with their Bihar counterparts to jointly promote Buddhist sites in the two States across the country and abroad.
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Odisha News Insight, Sept 28, 2015
Bhubaneswar, India -- Odisha urged the Centre to include its rich Buddhist heritage within the National Buddhist Circuit to boost the state’s tourism potential.
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by T. Appala Naidu, The Hindu, September 21, 2015
Machilipatnam, India -- Dhante Dhamma Dhaja, only Telugu monk who dedicated his life to preach and spread the Buddhism in Andhra Pradesh, feels that the State government should involve the monks in promotion of Buddhist tourism. Mr. Dhaja has launched a mission to preach the Buddhism to a group of 36 children through his Vihara at Pagollu village in Krishna district since early 2010.
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by Abdul Qadir,TNN, Sept 5, 2015
BODH GAYA, India - Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday attended a Hindu-Buddhist conclave in Bodh Gaya where he prescribed conflict avoidance as the most effective conflict resolution mechanism.
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Associated Press, September 1, 2015
DHARMSALA, India -- The exiled Tibetan government says there is no cause for celebrating 50 years since China formed the Tibetan Autonomous Region, and insists Tuesday instead marks a half-century of occupation and control over the once-independent Himalayan nation.
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Eurasia Review, September 1, 2015
Kandy, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka President Sirisena said the Buddhist philosophy is the noblest gift the country can offer to the world as a Buddhist country. He also stated the new government will implement a well-planned program to propagate the message of Buddhist philosophy to the international community.
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by Charu Sudan Kasturi, the Telegraph (India), Aug 31, 2015
New Delhi, india -- India has a new top cultural diplomat - and he is called the Buddha.
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by Y. Mallikarjun, The Hindu, Aug 13, 2015
AP planning to attract tourists from China, Japan and Thailand
Andhra Pradesh, India -- The ancient town of Amaravati, which forms part of the upcoming capital region of the State, will be promoted as a cradle of Mahayana Buddhism to attract international tourists, particularly those from China, Japan, Thailand and other Asian countries.
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eKantipur.com, July 19, 2015
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- The government has formally started work to develop the Greater Lumbini Buddhist Circuit to promote Buddhist tourism.
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By Bhante Y. Wimala, The Buddhist Channel, July 20 2015
Bhante Wimala's report on his humanitarian effort to reach isolated villages affected by the recent earthquake in Nepal
Kathmandu, Nepal -- As we continue our humanitarian relief effort to help people in devastated villages that are hard to reach (where nobody has reached them yet or very few have reached), this time we found ourselves at the village of Bhaiselitol.
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By KO IWAKI, The Asahi Shimbun AJW, June 29, 2015
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- With his home country of Sri Lanka having been embroiled in decades-long conflicts, Thalangalle Somasiri felt moved after reading the manga series “Hadashi no Gen” (Barefoot Gen), which depicts the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
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TNN, Jun 28, 2015
VISAKHAPATNAM, India -- In an effort to market Andhra Pradesh as a global tourism destination, Andhra Pradesh Tourism Department's principal secretary Neerabh Kumar Prasad took part in (Beijing International Tourism Expo) BITE 2015-16 in China.
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By Eric Weiner, BBC, 8 April 2015
Citizens of one of the happiest countries on Earth are surprisingly comfortable contemplating a topic many prefer to avoid. Is that the key to joy?
Thimphu, Bhutan -- On a visit to Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan, I found myself sitting across from a man named Karma Ura, spilling my guts. Maybe it was the fact that he was named Karma, or the thin air, or the way travel melts my defences, but I decided to confess something very personal.
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Press Trust of India, June 15, 2015
Kabul, Afghanistan -- Fourteen years after the Taliban dynamited the world-famous Buddhas of Bamiyan, the giant statues were resurrected with 3D light projection technology in the empty cavities where they once stood in Afghanistan.
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by Shenali D. Waduge, Lanka Web, May 31st, 2015
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- As the Buddhist public in Sri Lanka begin to close ranks to meet the challenges facing the continuity and preservation of the Buddhist ethos and heritage in the light of planned incursions, it is good to take stock of the admirable services rendered by Sinhala Buddhists who have carried the torch of Buddhism and ignited it on foreign shores.
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By Shanti Nandana Wijesinghe, The Ntaion, May 30, 2015
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The rich and sophisticated history of Sri Lanka spanning an approximation of 2,500 years owes much of its origin to Buddhism. Though the country’s indigenous history dates back much further, it is commonly and persuasively argued that the ascent to a well organized and spiritually informed life in the island was marked with the introduction of Buddhism in the 3rd century B.C.E.
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PTI, May 22, 2015
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Around 200 Buddhist monks and nuns were killed when about 1,000 monasteries collapsed in the massive April 25 earthquake and subsequent aftershocks in Nepal, according to authorities.
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IANS, May 18, 2015
Kathmandu, Nepal -- After roping in actress Michelle Yeoh, known for her role in James Bond film "Tomorrow Never Dies", acclaimed Buddhist leader Gyalwang Drukpa is banking on more celebrities and movie stars to raise money for reconstruction and rehabilitation in quake-devastated Nepal.
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Indo-Asian News Service, May 14, 2015
Xi'an, China -- After a visit to the Terracotta Warriors Museum at Xi'an, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid a visit to the Da Xingshan temple and offered prayers.
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By Jayalakshmi K, IB Times, May 4, 2015
Mes Aynak, Afghanistan -- A 2,000-year-old Buddhist city, Mes Aynak in Afghanistan, rich in stupas, shrines and monuments could be razed to the ground if a Chinese mining company is allowed to prospect for huge copper reserves on which the city sits.
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Asiantribune.com, May 6, 2015
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Protecting moral values along with the development of technology and the economy could be strengthened only through Buddhist philosophy, said President Maithripala Sirisena.
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Press Trust of India, May 4, 2015
Hyderabad, India -- The Telangana government would develop Nagarjuna Sagar, presently location of a massive irrigation project, as a prominent place of Buddhist significance, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said today.
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Phayul, April 25, 2015
Dharamshala, India -- A 7.9 magnitude earthquake with epicenter at Gorkha district struck the Nepal killing over 700 people and damaging many historical monuments and buildings in the capital Kathmandu and other areas, according to the Kanitpur news.
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Dalai Lama Expresses Sadness about Nepal Earthquake
Dharamsala, India -- Expressing great sadness about reports of the devastating earthquake that struck Nepal yesterday with the loss of many lives and widespread damage to property, His Holiness the Dalai Lama wrote to the Nepalese Prime Minister, Sushil Koirala.
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Hirunews, 26 April 2015
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Majority of Buddhist places of worship in Katmandu were damaged following the strongest earthquake which hit Nepal after 80 years.
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The Buddhist Channel, April 27, 2015
Kathmandu, Nepal -- At least 3,326 people are now known to have died in a massive earthquake which hit Nepal on Saturday, say officials. Most of affected victims were in the Kathmandu valley. Reports have said scores were killed by an avalanche near Mount Everest.
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by Senaka Weeraratna, Daily Mirror, April 4, 2015
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- In the light of the proposed changes to the Constitution of Sri Lanka now under consideration and growing accusations of contrived attempts via the proposed new Article 33 to neutralise the applicability of Article 9 in the Constitution that imposes a mandatory duty on the State to give to Buddhism the foremost place and protect and foster the Buddha Sasana, while assuring to all religions the rights granted by Articles 10 and 14(1)(e), an important question has arisen “ What is the relationship that should exist in the present day between the State and Buddhism?
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by Senaka Weeraratna, Lankaweb, April 17th, 2015
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka’s Constitution must be connected to its heritage and history. It is a national shame for a country that proudly boasts of a 2, 500 year old history and had won the acclaim of the wider world for preserving its Buddhist heritage in a pristine state, to turn its back on the wisdom of our ancestors on questions of governance and instead turn to the wisdom of somebody else’s grandfathers wholesale for new directions.
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by Shenali D Waduge, The Buddhist Channel, Apr 8, 2015
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Democracy and democratic systems cannot be based on a history conveniently interpreted to be read from Doctrine of Discovery onwards denying the civilizational histories and indigenous governing and legal systems that prevailed.
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by P. Sridhar, The Hindu, March 27, 2015
Karukonda, India -- The rich cultural heritage enshrined in the ancient Buddhist site on Karukonda hillock at Ramavaram in Kothagudem mandal has potential to give a fillip to tourism in the coal belt region.
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By P.K. Balachandran, Indian Express, 21st March 2015
New Delhi, India -- Former Sri Lankan Consul General in Sydney, Bandula Jayasekara, has suggested that the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, be allowed to visit Sri Lanka purely as a Buddhist pilgrim and on the strict condition that he talks no politics while being here.
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by Pranav Chaudhary, TNN, Mar 4, 2015
PATNA, India -- Buddhist Monuments Development Council (BMDC), a national body dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Buddhist heritage, has expressed its deep concern over security lapses at various Buddhist sites in the state, including the famous ancient ruins of Nalanda university.
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Tribune News Service, Mar 5 2015
Prayers offered for long life of the spiritual leader
Dharamsala, India -- The Dalai Lama today thanked four Tibetan organisations for organising a grand prayer ceremony for his long life at the main temple in Dharamsala. He said he was in very good health and would be able to live over 100 years.
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The Hindu, Feb 23, 2015
Nagarjunasagar, India -- The two-day 6th Buddhist Conclave, organised by the Buddhist Society of India (BSI), commenced on a grand note at Nagarjunasagar here on Sunday.
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IANS, February 11, 2015
Bhubaneswar, India -- In a bid to promote the state's Buddhist tourism circuits at the international level, the Odisha government has decided to hold the 3rd International Buddhist Conference at Bhubaneswar from Feb 13, said Tourism and Culture Minister Ashok Chandra Panda Wednesday.
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by Pranav Chaudhary, TNN, Dec 15, 2014
PATNA, India -- With the participation of over 1,500 people from 15 Buddhist countries, including monks and nuns, in the 13km Jethian-Rajgir heritage walk along the footsteps of Buddha on December 13, the immense untapped potential for Buddhist pilgrimage in Bihar has been underlined again.
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by T. Appala Naidu, The Hindu, Dec 5, 2014
New Delhi, India -- At least 19 Buddhist sites, including two from the second and third centuries A.D, in Krishna district will be developed into prominent tourist destinations with Japanese help.
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Jagran Post News Desk, 30 Nov 2014
Bangkok, Thailand -- India plans to transform Buddhist sites across the country and make them the centre of Buddhism for global followers, a senior minister said here.
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Lanka News, Nov 25, 2014
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Rehabilitation of Buddhist Temples Foundation has selected eight rural temples for its inaugural fund donation program which will be held on November 29 at the temple premises under the 'Pansala Hadamu' (Let us build temples) initiative.
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by Alison Lesley, World Religion news, 14 Nov 2014
Lumbini, Nepal -- A Buddhist conference being held November 15-18 in Gautama Buddha’s place of birth, Lumbini, has drawn over 400 scholars and monks from roughly 30 different nations.
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eKantipur, Nov 15, 2014
BUTWAL, Nepal -- President Ram Baran Yadav has said that the Buddhist religion should be spread as a philosophy and be internalised accordingly.
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by Ashok B Sharma, The Nation, 9 November 2014
New Delhi, India -- A definite shift in India’s Look East Policy is underway with added emphasis on Buddha diplomacy under the new dispensation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi plans to market the Buddha card to the countries in the region as India is the place of origin of Dhamma and Sangha. He indicated such a change in emphasis by his first official visit abroad to a neighboring Buddhist country Asia, Bhutan, and then to Nepal, where Buddha was born. His first official visit outside South Asia was to another Buddhist country, Japan.
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Zee News, November 3, 2014
Varanasi, India -- With Prime Minister Narendra Modi`s campaign for a cleaner India gaining ground, a Buddhist leader with a mass following here has thrown his weight behind the movement.
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NDTV, October 28, 2014
Patna, India -- Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung visited Bodh Gaya on Monday and prayed at the Mahabodhi temple, Buddhism's holiest shrine.
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eKantipur, Oct 31, 2014
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- An international Buddhist conference will be held in Lumbini on November 15-18 for the preservation and protection of Buddhist culture and heritage, organisers said at a press meet at the Reporters' Club Nepal.
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Press Trust of India, October 25, 2014
New Delhi, India -- A commemorative postage stamp on Sri Lankan Buddhist monk Anagarika Dharmapala, who is credited to have revived Buddhism in India in the 19th century, was released here today by President Pranab Mukherjee
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by Dixit, Kantipur.com, Oct 15, 2014
Following the Buddhist concept of right livelihood can help maximise wellbeing for Nepal
Kathmandu, Nepal -- Right livelihood’ is one of the Buddha’s noble eightfold paths. But what does that mean for a Nepali, and how can we develop it? The ongoing changes within and around us, our attempts to draft a new constitution, and our neighbours’ push towards greater economic reforms, could change Nepali society in unprecedented ways and redefine what right livelihood can be.
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by Ven. Dr. Mahinda Deegalle, The Nation, 19 October 2014
London, UK - Throughout the year, Buddhist organizations plan a variety of explicitly Buddhist activities for the Sri Lankan community in London. Full moon days are highly important for both monks and lay people for religious observances.
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Economic Times, Oct 11, 2014
Andhra Pradesh, India -- Making tourism one of its key focus areas in its services sector mission, Andhra Pradesh government said here today that the World Bank is keen on funding the state's 'Buddhist circuit'.
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DNA India, 10 October 2014
Bodhgaya, India -- Bhutan king Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and his wife Jetsun Pema, with a group of delegates, recently visited the holy Buddhist site in Varanasi.
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AFP, 29 September 2014
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Masoeyin monastery monk U Wirathu has announced he is linking up with hardline monks in Sri Lanka, alleging that the Buddhist religion is under threat from Islamic jihadists.
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PTI, Sep 27, 2014
BODH GAYA, Bihar (India) -- The Centre on Saturday announced a slew of measures including launching an air-conditioned train in Buddhist circuit from next year and putting signboards in languages of different countries for non-English speakers to make Bodh Gaya and other places associated with Lord Buddha more attractive for visitors.
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by Binay Singh, TNN, Sep 20, 2014
VARANASI, India -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Kashi is gearing up to host foreign delegates taking part in the International Buddhist Conclave in Bodhgaya and Sarnath from September 26 to 28. After spending two days in Bodhgaya the delegates will be in Varanasi on September 28.
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by AKSHAY DESHMANE, ET Bureau, Sep 12, 2014
LEH, Ladakh (India) -- For Ringzhen Tundup Shastri, the floods sweeping Kashmir valley is like yesterday once more.
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Colombo Gazette, September 4, 2014
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- A shop selling footwear with Buddhist images, was raided in Balangoda and two people were arrested.
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by Tissa Madawela, Sri Express, 6 Sep 2014
London, UK -- Wednesday 30th July 14 at 6.30pm, initiated by the conservative Muslim Forum, the British House of Lords committee room 3 witnessed an important gathering of Buddhists and Muslims to have a friendly dialogue to overcome some of the differences that have arisen between the two communities due to unfortunate events that have been unfolding in some parts of Sri Lanka in recent times.
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Indo-Asian News Service, September 3, 2014
Shimla, India -- Tabo, an ancient seat of Buddhist religion and culture in picturesque Spiti Valley in Himachal Pradesh in northern India, will now have an international learning centre.
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PTI, August 31, 2014
Kyoto, Japan -- On the second day of his Japan tour, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday visited two prominent ancient Buddhist temples here – Toji and Kinkakuji – offering prayers and mingling with the common people and tourists.
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by Annie Kelly, theguardian.com, 20 February 2013
Timphu, Bhutan -- The Dechen Phodrang monastery sits on top of a steep hill overlooking the Bhutanese capital, Thimphu. Since the 16th century, prayer flags have fluttered in the hills around Dechen Phodrang, one of thousands of monastic orders scattered throughout this tiny Himalayan kingdom.
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MyRepublica, Aug 19, 2014
LUMBINI, Nepal -- Nepal should develop a separate Buddhist circuit to link different shrines related to Lord Buddha in the country.
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The Buddhist Channel, Aug 13, 2014
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Convocation of the International Buddhist Education Institute was held at Pallekele under the patronage of President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Saturday.
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News Lanka, Jul 29, 2014
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka has donated sacred Buddha relics to be placed in temples in the United States and Korea for the Buddhists in those countries to worship.
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The Buddhist Channel, July 21, 2014
Ladakh, India -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama unexpectedly visited Basgo Nunnery in Ladakh, one of the homes for destitute children funded and built by the Lotus Flower Trust, a charity based in Hyde in the New Forest. This was an amazing, once in a lifetime opportunity for all the orphaned nuns at the home - to hear his teachings and be inspired by his much revered Buddhist wisdom.
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T3 News Network, Jul 21, 2014
New Delhi, India -- The World Bank Group is supporting India’s Ministry of Tourism and the state tourism departments of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh on the government’s priority program to develop the Buddhist Circuit, foster tourism-led growth, expand economic opportunities and create jobs for local communities, offer better facilities to pilgrims and help increase tourist traffic five-fold.
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by Rageshri Ganguly,TNN, Jul 10, 2014
BHOPAL, India -- Finance minister Arun Jaitley delivered a huge shocker to Madhya Pradesh by eliminating world heritage site, Sanchi, from his grandiose blueprint of developing the Buddhist circuit of Sarnath-Gaya-Varanasi into a global tourism hub.
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by Janaka Perera, Lankaweb, July 10, 2014
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka’s Ambassador in Vietnam Dr. Ivan Amarasinghe will be a special guest invited by the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha Council at the ceremony on Saturday July 12 – National Martyrs Day – to commemorate the sacrifice of the Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Quang Duc 51 years ago in protest against the American-backed dictator Ngo Din Diem in what was then South Vietnam.
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AA, June 19, 2014
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- A prominent Buddhist monk known for actively speaking out against hardline Buddhist nationalists in Sri Lanka has been assaulted and was found with cut wounds, police said Thursday.
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ColomboPage News Desk, Jun 15, 2014
Aluthgama, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka police declared curfew in Sri Lanka's southern coastal town of Aluthgama today after simmering tensions between the Buddhist and Muslims escalated into clashes.
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by Jane Cook, The Tibet Post International, June 3, 2014
Mumbai, Maharastra (India) -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama began the final day of his stay in Mumbai by unveiling the foundation stone for the Somaiya Institute of Buddhist Studies, following which he spoke briefly and answered questions in the Somaiya School Hall.
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Translation by Sudath Madugalle, Article originally published in the Sinhala ‘Divaina’ newspaper on May 11, 2014
Jaffna, Sri Lanka -- At a time when archeological sites and artifacts were still being discovered as evidence of Buddhist heritage in the Jaffna Peninsula, the dark omen of terrorism started clouding the peace of the entire Buddhist nation.
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Lanka Daily News, May 8, 2014
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The symposium on Buddhist Jurisprudence Sri Lanka 2014, will be held on May 10 at 9 am with the participation of Chief Justice Mohan Peiris, PC.
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by D.C. Ranatunga, Sunday Times (Sri Lanka), May 11, 2014
Before the focus on pandals, dansalas and elaborate illuminations, Vesak meant time spent at the temple. D.C. Ranatunga looks back
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Going back six to seven decades, I recollect how Vesak was celebrated in the village temple. I remember how I used to accompany mother to the temple along the paddy fields to the ‘Sabahve pansala’. (I never bothered to find out how the temple had got that name). Poya day then was another working day for everybody. So the crowd in the temple on a Full Moon day was limited to a handful, mostly the old folks, and mainly women .
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by Gamini Weerakoon, The Sunday leader, May 5, 2014
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Every time we pass the Kanatte roundabout under the spreading Banyan tree, our eyes go to the four white boards placed around It: Metta (loving kindness), Karuna (compassion), Muditha (sharing one’s own joy as well as of other’s too) and Upeksa (equanimity – learning to accept loss and gain). These are four basic principles in Buddhism and said to represent the core of Buddha’s teaching.
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by Masood Hussain, ET, Apr 19, 2014
Kashmir, India -- Buddhists have displaced Christian groups as the biggest recipients of foreign aid in Jammu and Kashmir. In the past seven years, non-governmental organisations based in and around Buddhistdominated and sparsely populated Leh have cornered more than half of the total funds that NGOs in the state have received, government records show.
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Xinhua, Apr 18, 2014
Patna, India -- Local officials in the eastern Indian state of Bihar are trying to attract foreign investments and revive the area's former glory–known as the original site of the first recorded activities of Siddhartha, or Buddha, that once made it the center of the Maurya Empire of India in the 3rd century BC and visited by pilgrims from China and other countries some 1,500 years ago.
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PTI, 12 April 2014
Gangtok, Sikkim (India) -- Hundreds of monks from Buddhist monasteries in the Himalayan state of Sikkim voted on Saturday to choose a Lama as their representative in the state assembly.
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Observer, Sunday Times, April 12th, 2014
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- “Ordering by the beat of the drum that no animals should be killed within a radius of seven gau from the city, he gave security to animals. He also gave security to the fish in the twelve great tanks, and bestowing on (the region’s people) gold and cloth and whatever other kind of wealth they wished, he commanded them not to catch birds and so gave security to birds….”
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by Dilshan Boange, The Sunday Nation, March 1, 2014
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- On February 22, 2013 at the Maha Bodhi Society premises in Maradana Colombo, a discussion was held towards creating new channels of Lanka-Indo relations initiated by Buddhist activists from both here and India who have opened a dialogue as private citizens, hoping to strengthen bonds of amity between the two countries on the basis of shared Buddhist heritage.
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TNN, Feb 28, 2014
VARANASI, India -- The newly constructed Cambodian Buddhist temple was inaugurated in the restricted area of Sarnath on Friday amid controversy and tight security arrangements.
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by Kanchan Srivastava, DNA, January 30, 2014
Mumbai, India -- The University of Mumbai has been directed to refund monetary grants it was alloted to set up a ‘Buddhist Studies Centre’. The University Grants Commission wants the refund as the centre never took off despite disbursal of funds by the apex body for higher education in India.
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By Karal Marx L, The New Indian Express, 7 January 2014
VILLUPURAM, India -- Tired of being discriminated against by Caste Hindus for the past two years, around 300 Hindu Dalits of the Seshasamuthiram Colony embraced Buddhism on Monday.
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Malaysia Sun (ANI), 11th January, 2014
Bodh Gaya, India -- Buddhist monks performed a special prayer called 'Mahakala Puja' for world peace and tranquility at Bodhgaya, Bihar.
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by Venkatesh Bayya, TNN Jan 8, 2014
VISAKHAPATNAM, India -- Worried about the impact of the annual Jatara on the Bojjannakonda-Lingalametta Buddhist site near Anakapalle on January 15, heritage conservationists have sought police protection for the ancient heritage site. Office bearers of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (Intach) have already written to the district collector seeking police protection.
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IANS, December 14, 2013
Patna, India -- The 17th Karmapa, spiritual head of the Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhists, Saturday began the Kagyu-Moenlam prayer amid tight security at Bodh Gaya, considered the birthplace of Buddhism, in Bihar, police said.
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By Janaka Alahapperuma, LankaWeb, December 14th, 2013
Nairobi, Kenya -- President Mahinda Rajapaksa visited the Nairobi Buddhist Viharaya, located in a suburb of Kenya’s Capital City, Nairobi on Friday morning (13 December).
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Daily Mirror, 8 DECEMBER 2013
Bodh Gaya, Bihar (India) -- Buddhist from across the globe gathered in Bodh Gaya, Bihar, on Sunday to attend a conference, aimed at spreading the message of peace.
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The New Paper, Nov 17, 2013
Bodhgaya, India -- India's Mahabodhi Temple, one of the world's holiest Buddhist shrines, is to have its dome inlaid with 300kg of gold donated by Thailand's king and other devotees, officials said on Thursday.
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Buddhist Channel, 18 November 2013
Kandy, Sri Lanka -- The Prince of Wales paid his respects at Sri Lanka's most important Buddhist shrine - containing a tooth from the Buddha.
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by Rinchen Khando Choegyal, Director, Tibetan Nuns Project; Founding member, Tibetan Women's Association, Nov 13, 2013
Dharmsala, India -- It was a moment that Tibetan Buddhist nuns dream of -- to be in the presence of the Dalai Lama and to hear his words of encouragement about their studies. Many of the nuns had risked their lives fleeing Tibet to see the Dalai Lama and to find the freedom to practice their Buddhist faith.
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by Anjana Pasricha, VOA, November 8, 2013
NEW DELHI, India -- Representatives of about 50 Buddhist monasteries are in the Indian capital to discuss fresh water conservation and preservation of the fragile ecosystem in the high Himalayan ranges and the Tibetan plateau.
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Sunday Island, November 9, 2013
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Thailand and Sri Lanka, Siam and Ceylon, Ayutthaya and Kandy. The ties between these two sister nations go back 260 years. Last week Museum Siam, the National Discovery Museum Institute, in collaboration.with the Thai Foreign Ministry, opened the exhibition entitled "Origin Of Siam-Lanka Wongse: Upali's Pilgrimage, 260 Years Of Siamese Heritage In Sri Lanka", which honours the Dharmaduta mission by Phra Upali Maha Thera.
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by Gopal Kateshiya, Indian Express, Oct 21 2013
Nakhda, India -- At Vishal Hadmatiya village in Bhesan taluka, 21 km from Junagadh, a statue of Dr B R Ambedkar greets visitors. It's been a week since all the 60 families in this Dalit neighbourhood 'converted' to Buddhism at an event in Junagadh. The organisers of the event have claimed that a total of 60,000 Dalits converted to Buddhism.
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by Diksha Bhumi, The Buddhist Channel, Oct 24, 2013
New Delhi, India -- Every year a million Dalits gather at the site of the first Conversion to Buddhism in Nagpur, India. Since 1956 millions of Dalits have responded to Dr. Ambedkar’s appeal to adopt Buddhism and escape the caste system.
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by Rajeev Deshpande, TNN Oct 8, 2013
NEW DELHI, India -- Passing almost unnoticed, a recent conclave of senior Buddhist figures in Delhi marks a remarkable step to redeem India's legacy as the font of Buddha's thought while queering China's bid to snatch the baton from India.
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by V Kamalakara Rao, TNN, Sep 27, 2013
VISAKHAPATNAM, India -- At a time when technology has literally turned into a religion for many, a Vizag-based research scholar has taken up a scientific study using nuclear analytical techniques (NAT) to trace the route taken by Buddhist monks in the country centuries ago to spread the word of Gautam Buddha.
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VOA News, September 25, 2013
New Delhi, India -- A Buddhist lama says a new confederation will seek to bridge the gap between the world's Buddhists and be a voice for the religion at major international events.
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Phayul, September 25, 2013
DHARAMSHALA, India -- A three day meeting of around 25 Tibetan Buddhist scholars and His Holiness the Dalai Lama concluded today at the latter’s residence here.
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by Yeshe Choesang, The Tibet Post International, 12 September 2013
Dharamshala, India -- The spiritual leader of Tibet, His Holiness the Dalai Lama said time has come for India to revive her ancient traditions and combine its knowledge with modern education for betterment of humanity.
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Lanka Daily News, Sept 14, 2013
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Second Asian Festival of Buddhist Culture and International Convention will be held on September 25-28 at the Sri Lanka International Buddhist Academy (SIBA), Pallekele.
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IANS, Sep 3, 2013
New Delhi, India -- The conclave is being organized by the International Buddhist Confederation, the body that represents the voice of Buddhists around the world.
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by ILARIA MARIA SALA, WSJ, Aug 21, 2013
Lumbini, Nepal -- The plain of Terai, a poor agricultural land crossed by holy rivers, straddles the border between Nepal and India. Its sweltering summers see temperatures climb above 100 degrees, but this parched terrain might be on the verge of tumultuous changes. On the Nepali side is the small city of Lumbini, which, after long neglect, is now at the center of great power politics.
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AFP Aug 8, 2013
THIMPHU, Bhutan -- Kencho Tshering, a red-robed Buddhist monk, takes a call from the King of Bhutan's office, then duly dashes off to start a ceremony praying for a break in the monsoon rains.
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BBC, 12 August 2013
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- A mosque in the Sri Lankan capital has been closed after an attack by a Buddhist mob over the weekend sparked clashes in which five people were hurt.
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by Clarice Africa, FutureGov, August 12, 2013
New Delhi, India -- The Governments of India and Thailand are working together to generate a map of Buddhist historical sites across South East Asia, including India, as part of bilateral efforts to promote tourism.
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by Thrishantha Nanayakkara, Groundviews.org, Aug 11, 2013
Boston, USA -- I threw the pot containing my father’s ash to the sea and watched how it drifted away in the current. I had already made up my mind. He was 81 years old, he did his best to serve the society as a teacher, and he saw the fruits of his dedication to raise us. But something started to kick in from within me. It grew and worsened at the departure terminal of the Katunayake airport. I was dipped in a deep sense of sorrow all along the long flight to Boston.
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Indo-Asian News Service, August 12, 2013
Siliguri, India -- Around 12,000 Buddhist monks and students living in pagodas and monasteries of northern West Bengal's Darjeeling hills face an impending food crisis with the pro-Gorkhaland shutdown continuing for the tenth day on Monday.
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ColomboPage News Desk, Jul 30, 2013
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- A Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka has begun a fast unto death on Tuesday demanding the government to provide clean drinking water to the residents in an area in Gampaha district.
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The Himalayan Times, July 30, 2013
Capital witnesses massive traffic jam
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- People of Buddhist community staged a sit-in outside the Singha Durbar, the country's main administrative complex, to protest the government intervention in the installment of Lord Buddha’s idol in Kakrebihar of Surkhet district, on Tuesday.
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AFP, July 27, 2013
New Delhi, India -- Former Nepalese Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal Friday advocated a ‘Lumbini circuit’ of Buddhist tourism sites spanning India and Nepal which would attract millions of Buddhist pilgrims.
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Express news service, Jul 30 2013
Lucknow, India -- Uttar Pradesh will get another university at Kapilvastu in Siddharthnagar district. Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav is likely to lay the foundation stone of the university on September 10.
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ColomboPage News Desk, Jul 28, 2013
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Chief Justice of Sri Lanka Mohan Peiris has said that a special Sangha Court would be set up to hear cases involving Buddhist monks.
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by Sajeeva Samaranayake, Groundviews.org, July 25, 20013
“I do not say you can attain purity by views, traditions, morality or conventions, nor will you gain purity without these. But by using them for abandonment rather than as positions to hold on to, you will come to be at peace without the need to be anything.” – Buddha
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Since the Buddha taught a doctrine of non-self it would not be too difficult to reject the rigid Sinhala Buddhist viewpoint of race and religion as self as a perversion of the true dharma. However setting up such a clash between the ideal and actual does not help; something the western oriented proponents of human rights have yet to learn. To say ‘I am right and you are wrong’ is not effective communication.
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Phayul, July 23, 2013
DHARAMSHALA, India -- Police in the north Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, exile home to thousands of Tibetans including His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Central Tibetan Administration, have been alerted of possible terror strikes on Buddhist population and monastries.
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by Dean Nelson, The Telegraph, 16 Jul 2013
New Delhi, India -- India has reassured Burma and other Buddhist countries it will prevent further attacks on sacred shrines after the temple site where Buddha attained enlightenment was bombed last week.
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PTI, July 13, 2013
Kathmandu, Nepal -- Nepal has stepped up security in Lumbini, the birth place of Lord Buddha, with security personnel frisking every tourist entering the shrine, nearly a week after a terror attack on the Mahabodhi temple in India.
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TNN Jul 11, 2013
BHUBANESWAR, India -- After the recent bomb blasts in Bodh Gaya, Odisha chapter of Buddhist Society of India on Wednesday demanded more security cover and proper boundary wall at all Buddhist sites in the state.
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TNN Jul 9, 2013
NEW DELHI, India -- The Myanmar government and Opposition leader Aung San Suu kyi expressed unhappiness about the terror attacks in Bodh Gaya which damaged the Mahabodhi shrine and injured a young Myanmarese monk on Sunday. The Bihar government has been criticized for ignoring intelligence warnings that the shrine may be under terror threat.
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by Aarti Dhar, The Hindu, June 23, 2013
Leh, Ladakh (India) -- Buddhist spiritual leader Kyabje Thuksey Rinpoche has said the government should give more attention to Buddhism as its followers are along the international borders and are crucial for national security.
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The Buddhist Channel, June 19, 2013
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -- The 5th Annual Drukpa Council has been scheduled for 29 Aug to 5 Sept 2013, at the Hemis Monastery, Ladakh, India. This is likely to be the last time that Ladakh will play host to the world's largest assembly of Drukpa Masters.
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by Shenali D Waduge, Lankaweb, June 6, 2013
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- India’s projection internationally as a country interested in preserving the Buddhist heritage and Indian Government promotions to encourage tourists to visit Buddhist sites in India as a custodian of Buddhism, has come in for a rude shock with the news that the Government of India has recently removed Pali – an ancient classical language being the language of propagation of Buddhism – as a subject from the main examination of the Civil Services (popularly known as Indian Administrative Services i.e. IAS) of India, 2013, which were under the purview of the UPSC (Union Public Service Commission). This news is most disturbing to the Buddhists the world over.
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by Fazal Khaliq / Fazal Khaliq, The Tribune, June 3, 2013
Kanderai, Pakistan -- Neglected by the government, Kanderai, the remains of one of the largest and most fascinating Buddhist settlements, will soon crumble to dust.
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by Shenali D Waduge, LankaWeb, May 29, 2013
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Thai Prime Minister Ms. Shinawatra is due to visit Buddhist Sri Lanka during the month of Wesak. The bond that Sri Lanka and former Siam (Thailand) share needs to go beyond diplomatic niceties.
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ColomboPage News Desk, May 28, 2013
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Beijing: President Mahinda Rajapaksa and First Lady Shiranthi Wikaramasinghe Rajapaksa, along with members of the Sri Lankan delegation, visited the Lingguang Buddhist Temple located on the outskirts of Beijing Monday.
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BBC, May 27, 2013
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka is to investigate the role of the media in the death of a Buddhist monk on Saturday, the day after he set fire to himself.
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by By Shenali Waduge, Eurasia Review, May 24, 2013
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka with a Theravada Buddhist civilization that protected and fostered Buddhism has much to introspect. With over 70% of the population being Buddhists it is a national shame that we continue to forget the very basic teachings of the Buddha whose message to us was to treat non – human sentient beings with compassion and loving – kindness, as though they were no different to humans with feelings and pain.
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by Rajeev Deshpande, TNN, May 14, 2013
NEW DELHI, India -- One-and-a-half years after China rescheduled border talks in a huff over Dalai Lama addressing a global Buddhist meet in Delhi, there are indications of a thaw with the Chinese expressing an interest in the Indian effort to organize another meet this year.
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PTI, May 9, 2013
Gaya, India -- All Buddhist sites between Bodh Gaya and Sarnath in Bihar would be documented, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Thursday.
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Ahimsa360.com, May 5, 2013
New Delhi, India -- Animal welfare was the topic of discussion and the XIV Dalai Lama propounded the ideals of ahimsa and vegetarianism at the first-ever World Compassion Day, organised at a suburban hotel on Wednesday.
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The Himalaya Times, Apr 19, 2013
"The peace lamp would hopefully help allay the magnitude of conflict surfaced between North Korea and South Korea"
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- President Dr Ram Baran Yadav has presented a perennial holy peace lamp (Akhanda Dip) to South Korean Buddhist monk on Friday.
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ANI, 19 Apr 2013
Gaya, Bihar (India) -- A large number of Buddhist monks organised special prayers in Gaya, Bihar, for world peace and for the protection of the heritage sites as they celebrated 'World Heritage Day this week.
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Maharashtra Unlimited, Vol 2, Jan - March 2013
96.12 metre pagoda is dubbed as "Wonder of the new millennium"
Mumbai, India -- Asia’s tallest stone structure rises majestically in the sky against the blue background of the Arabian Sea. Located in the southwest of Mumbai on the Essel Plateau near Gorai and covering an area of about 15.5 acres, the Global Vipassana Pagoda is a 21st century architectural wonder.
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by Alice Reetham, Tibet Post International, 12 April 2013
Dharamshala, India -- Figurative artist Lisa Andrews painted two portraits of His Holiness, which were signed by him on a recent visit to the UK; these signed portraits raised £6,200 ($9,544) when they were auctioned by the Buddhist Community Center (BCCUK).
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Express News Service, 4th April 2013
CHENNAI , India -- A day-long national seminar titled ‘Philosophical Revisit to Buddhism in Tamil Nadu’ was organised by the Department of Philosophy, University of Madras, here on Wednesday. The seminar focused on how Buddhism forayed into Tamil Nadu.
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Lanka Daily News, Apr 10, 2013
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Buddhasasana and Religious Affairs Ministry considers its teaming up with the Economic Development Ministry in a joint endeavour to promote Buddhism throughout the world as a major victory, Prime Minister and Buddhasasana and Religious Affairs Minister D M Jayaratne said.
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By Vishal Arora, Religion News Service, March 29, 2013
Timphu, Bhutan -- Health officials in the tiny Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan are making condoms available at all monastic schools in a bid to stem the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV among young monks who are supposed to be celibate.
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By Guillaume Lavallee, AFP, March 24, 2013
Amid rising violence, the country is trying to revive travel to its northwest - rich in Buddhist history and significance - which could generate billions in revenue, but lies next to Taliban havens
TAKHT-i-BAHI, Pakistan -- Religious violence may be on the rise and the Taliban still a threat, but Pakistan is hoping a rich Buddhist heritage will help it boost international tourism to its troubled northwest.
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By Jay Price, McClatchy Newspapers, March 23, 2013
A buried Buddhist city in Afghanistan is sitting atop an enormous copper deposit and a planned Chinese open-pit mine, the largest private investment in Afghan history. Archaeologists are racing to document and preserve the treasures before they’re lost forever.
MES AYNAK, Afghanistan -- It had the potential to be another Afghanistan Buddha disaster, recalling the Taliban’s destruction of two ancient statues that had stood for centuries in this country’s west: A buried Buddhist city lost to time was about to be obliterated by what promised to be one of the largest copper mines in the world.
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by Dilshan Boange, The Nation, March 24, 2013
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- On March 1 at the Maha Bodhi Society premises in Maradana Colombo, a discussion was held towards creating new channels of Lanka-Indo relations initiated by Buddhist activists from both here and India who have opened a dialogue as private citizens, hoping to strengthen bonds of amity between the two countries on the basis of shared Buddhist heritage.
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By Yatish Yadav, New Indian Express, 17 March 2013
NEW DELHI, India -- The Ministry of Home Affairs is scratching its head over a travel request from controversial Buddhist monk Tai Situ Rinpoche, who wants to visit Bhutan.
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By Jay Price, McClatchy Newspapers, March 12, 2013
MES AYNAK, Afghanistan -- It had the potential to be another Afghanistan Buddha disaster, recalling the Taliban’s destruction of two ancient statues that had stood for centuries in this country’s west: A buried Buddhist city lost to time was about to be obliterated by what promised to be one of the largest copper mines in the world.
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Asiantribune.com, March 17, 2013
Chennai, India -- A Buddhist monk from Sri Lanka - Ven. Gnanaloka Thero (46) had been with a group of 18 students comprising Indian, Myanmar and other nationals who was in Thanjavur for academic research, bore the brunt of the latest wave of anti-Lanka protests that has gripped the State lately.
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IB TIMES, March 17, 2013
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- A British tourist has been barred from entering Sri Lanka for 'disrespecting Buddhism' after immigration officials quizzed him about a tattoo of Buddha's head on his arm.
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by Senaka Weeraratne, Lanka Daily News, Mar 9, 2013
Kandy, Sri Lanka -- An eight member Indian Buddhist delegation led by Ven Dr Bhadant Rahula Bodhi Maha Thera met President Mahinda Rajapaksa at President's House in Kandy on February 22. The visit was to strengthen ties between Buddhists of the two countries and bring India and Sri Lanka closer through the historical bond and civilisational link of Buddhism.
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By P K Balachandran, New India Express, 8 March 2013
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Buddhism was brought to Sri Lanka by Emperor Ashoka’s daughter Sangamitta and her twin brother Mahinda in 288 BC.
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by Yeshe Choesang, The Tibet Post Tuesday, 26 February 2013
Sarnath, India -- His Eminence the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorjee has begun an 8-day teaching starting from February 21 at Vajra Vidya Institute, Sarnath, Varanasi- one of four holy Buddhist sites in India, with conducting extensive prayers and seminar by Buddhist monks and thousands of devotees from different parts of the world, including many who have came from Nepal.
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by Chaminda Perera, Lanka Daily News, March 2, 2013
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Few Buddhist monks are seen engaged in vigorous learning and literary activities at present, said Ven Ittapane Dhammalankara Anunayake Thera. Few Buddhist monks in the caliber of Ven Prof Bellanwila Wimalarathana Thera are pursuing literary activities at present, the Thera said.
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by EDWARD WONG, New York Times, February 23, 2013
LO MANTHANG, Nepal -- Dozens of painters sat atop scaffolding that soared toward the roof of an ancient monastery. With a swipe of their brushes, colors appeared that gave life to the Buddha. Gold for the skin.
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ColomboPage News Desk, Mar 2, 2013
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Chief Prelate of the Malwatte Chapter in Sri Lanka Ven. Thibbatuwawe Sumangala Thera has held a discussion with a delegation of members from the Muslim Council of Sri Lanka (MCSL).
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by Anjana Pasricha, VOA, February 15, 2013
NEW DELHI, India -- India is tapping the potential of its rich Buddhist heritage by wooing more tourists from East and South East Asian countries. Buddhism originated in India but went on to gain more popularity in other Asian countries.
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emirates247.com, February 25, 2013
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Mahanayakas (Buddhist High Priests) of the Kandy Malwatte chapters met a delegation of the Sri Lanka Muslim Council (SLMC) yesterday morning and discussed the issue arising from the issue of Halal certificate, ‘Colombo Gazette’ reported.
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DHNS, Feb 8, 2013
Chandigarh, Pakistan -- Buddhist sites left to ruin in Pakistan could get a fresh lease of life as a Haryana-based NGO -The Buddhist Forum (TBF) - ventures on an ambitious mission to save and highlight the lost glory of the age-old monuments.
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By Ashis Senapati, TNN, Feb 4, 2013
KENDRAPADA, India -- Curtains fell on the three-day International Conference on Buddhist Heritage of Odisha at Udayagiri in Jajpur district on Sunday with the demand for including Udayagiri in the list of world heritage sites gaining momentum.
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Press Trust of India, 23 January 2013
BHUBANESHWAR, India -- Odisha government is taking several initiatives to explore its vast potential to turn the state into a Buddhist tourism hub like Bodhgaya in Bihar and Sarnath in Uttar Pradesh.
Large scale excavation is taking place in Lalitgiri, Udaigiri and Ratnagiri which are hilly areas in the state with highest concentration of Buddhist remains.
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by Meenakshi Sinha, TNN, Jan 15, 2013
NEW DELHI, India -- A three-day international conference and exhibition on Buddhism, with special focus on the great monk Atisa Dipamkara Jnana, is being held at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) from Jan 16-18.
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http://dharmavoicesforanimals.org/petitions, The Buddhist Channel, Jan 20, 2013
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka holds a unique place in the world, with the longest continuous history of Buddhism of any nation. Buddhism has been the major religion in the island since its official introduction in the 3rd century BC by Arahant Mahinda, the son of the Emperor Ashoka of India, and over 70% of the population is Buddhist.
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TNN Jan 10, 2013
VARANASI, India -- "Buddhism has become an area of interest for scientists for they feel that the teachings and principles of Buddhism are scientifically very true," said the Dalai Lama while addressing a congregation at Central University of Tibetan Studies at Sarnath on Wednesday.
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By Sharon McGreevey, The Redding Pilot, January 4, 2013
Mysore, India -- Tibetan monks are praying in Mysore, India, for the victims and families of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, as well as the Newtown community. The school was the site of a horrific tragedy where a lone gunman killed 20 kindergartners and six adults last month, on Dec. 14.
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PTI, January 5, 2013
Patna, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama Saturday praised secularism practised in India and emphasised that the message of peaceful existence of different religions in the country should be taken all over the world.
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TNN Jan 5, 2013
VARANASI, India -- The Central University of Tibetan Studies (CUTS), Sarnath, is going to organise a three-day international conference of Asian Buddhist Forum on 'Buddhism and Society' from January 13 to 15. The event will be inaugurated by Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama.
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By Shenali Waduge, Eurasia Review, December 25, 2012
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- We are all well aware that both India and China are rivals for supremacy in Asia and both are fishing for new strategies to tap to forge the alliances needed to strengthen that supremacy. If India and China nations that once put Buddhism aside for other priorities are now realizing that their answer for supremacy lies with Buddhism why has Sri Lanka’s policy makers not utilized this power which is under their very nose?
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by Yeshe Choesang, The Tibet Post International, 7 January 2013
Bihar, India -- The spiritual leader of Tibet, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama inaugurated the three-day international Buddhist convention at Buddha Smriti Park in the heart of Patna on Saturday. Hundreds of delegates, mostly scholars of Buddhism and monks from across the world, were participated in the conference.
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The Himalayan Times, Jan 3, 2013
SAPTARI, Nepal -- Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai is scheduled to inaugurate the 11th National Buddhist Conference to be held in Rajbiraj, the headquarters of Saptari district.
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IANS, 25 December 2012
Odisha, India -- The Buddhist tourism circuit in India is getting a new fillip with the luxury tourist shuttle, the Mahaparinirvana Express, expanding its run to touch Buddhist sites in Odisha from Jan 20 besides those in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
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by Faizan Ahmad, TNN Dec 30, 2012
PATNA, India -- The Dalai Lama will inaugurate a three-day International Buddhist Samagam (convention) here on January 5. The convention is expected to attract over 1500 delegates from various countries. It will be held at the Buddha Smriti Park in Patna which was inaugurated by the Nobel laureate in 2010 to mark the 2550 thMahaparinirvana of Buddha.
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By Vijay Kranti, Phayul, December 25, 2012
New Delhi, India -- The brand new, upmarket Hotel Kempinsky in East Delhi has suddenly morphed into a Buddhist monastery -- though temporarily for four days this week. Its lobbies and convention halls are reverberating with Buddhist mantras, teachings and laughter of the most celebrated man of our era -- Dalai Lama. Over 800 Buddhist devotees from the three republics of Russia namely Kalmykia, Buryatia and Tuva are here to have teachings from their supreme spiritual Guru. Over a hundred more from other parts of the world too have joined in.
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Sky.com, Dec 16, 2012
Worshippers are being told to give fewer sweet treats to monks amid fears that their diet is too rich.
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lankans are being urged to cut down on offerings of sweets and cakes to the country's Buddhist monks after it was found that half the nation's holy men are at risk of poor health due to a diet rich in sugar and oil.
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TNN Dec 20, 2012
BHOPAL, India -- Chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that Sanchi Buddhist and Indic Studies University will pave way for world peace by becoming a medium of serving humanity. Chouhan was discussing issues of university's studies, teaching and research with members of the university's advisory committee here on Wednesday.
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My Republica, Dec 11, 2012
BUTWAL, Nepal -- The Visit Lumbini Year ( VLY-2012) has failed to connect well known Buddhist Circuits around Lumbini though the government had announced 2012 as a national campaign with an aim to attracting a million tourists and collecting the funds for the development of Lumbini.
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by Sophie Jay, Tibet Post International, December 4, 2012
Dharamshala, India -- The spiritual leader of Tibet, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has urged Tibetans who have recently arrived in India to study Buddhist philosophy, rather than simply familiarizing themselves with prayer.
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ANI, 02 Dec 2012
Baramulla (Jammu and Kashmir), India -- In a bid to attract more Buddhist pilgrims, the tourism department in Jammu and Kashmir has decided set to restore Buddhist sites in the state.
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Press Trust of India, November 27, 2012
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Concerned over the unhealthy diet of Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka, health authorities are to introduce a new food menu for them.
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IANS, Nov 28, 2012
Patna, India -- Bodh Gaya's Mahabodhi temple, one of Buddhism's holiest shrines plans to set up a world class hospital and medical college with international financial aid in the holy town in Bihar, an official said Wednesday.
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TNN Nov 24, 2012
BHOPAL, India -- Culture minister Laxmikant Sharma has said that efforts will be made to given an international-level identity to Buddhist and Indic Studies University to be established at Sanchi.
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By Dhanesh Wisumperuma, The Nation, 25 November 2012
Hyderabad, India -- Building hosting Buddhist Galleries at State Museum at Hyderabad Buddhism originated in the 5th century BCE in present day India. It flourished in many parts of India for the next millennium, partly due to the patronage of various kings and dynasties.
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The Nation November 24, 2012
Kabul, Afghanistan -- A historic Buddhist site in Afghanistan appears likely to be spared demolition to make way for a copper mine after the Thai Foreign Ministry issued a statement yesterday saying the Afghan government "would do whatever possible" to conserve the site and preserve artefacts obtained from it.
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by Renuka Narayanan, Hindustan Times, November 17, 2012
Peshawar, Pakistan -- In today's religiously riven landscape, it's hard to imagine how Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Islam, Sikhism and Christianity took turns to water the land, each to its own degree. Of these, perhaps we know the least about Buddhism because it was so very long ago.
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LankaWeb, November 14, 2012
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Generally Sinhalese Buddhists in Sri Lanka which comprise about 70% of the country’s population are traditionally inclined towards vegetarianism or semi – vegetarianism in their dietary habits.
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Press Trust of India, October 18, 2012
Bhubaneswar, India -- Odisha government has decided to open an advanced centre for Buddhist Studies scheduled from January 1 next year to attract students from India and other parts of Asia.
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The Himalayan Times, Oct 15, 2012
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- The Buddhism Protection Concerned Coordination on Monday has expressed serious concern over the September 30 arson attack on Buddhist temples and monasteries around the Cox's Bazaar area in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh and over the destruction of hundreds of Buddha's idols there in the course of such attacks.
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Daily Times, Oct 12, 2012
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Singapore and author of the book “Chinese Made Easy” Syed Hasan Javed joined Quaid-e-Azam University faculty, scholars and students on Thursday to give an insight into the history of cultural and religious relationship between Pakistan and China.
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by Shahroz Afridi, Hindustan Times, October 15, 2012
Bhopal, India -- The Mahabodhi plant brought from Sri Lanka and planted at Sanchi by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa during inauguration of International University of Buddhist and Indic Studies will now be shifted from the university site after collector of Raisen expressed his inability to ensure security of the plant.
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By Sandun Jayawardana, The Nation, October 7, 2012
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Three years after the end of the war, archaeologists are hard at work in the country’s Eastern province. Teams from the Department of Archaeology have been exploring areas that were previously inaccessible for decades due to fighting. As these excavations are taking place, controversies regarding the history of these areas and who exactly arrived first are once again starting to arise.
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Sapa-AFP, October 7, 2012
Timphu, Bhutan -- The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, famed for seeking "happiness" for its citizens, is aiming to become the first nation in the world to turn its home-grown food and farmers 100-percent organic.
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TNN, Sep 30, 2012
VARANASI, India -- In an effort to attract at least half of the total Buddhist population spread in 35 countries by promoting Buddhist pilgrimage sites, is the new mantra of the ministry of tourism, Government of India and the states enshrining the Buddhist pilgrimage sites.
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Daily Pioneer, 19 September 2012
Bhopal, India -- Sanchi Buddhist and Indian Knowledge Studies University, proposed to be established in Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh, will have five departments, including Buddhist Philosophy, Sanatan Dharma and Indian Knowledge Studies, International Buddha Studies, Comparative Studies of Religions and Languages and Literature and Arts. About 100 acre land has been reserved for the university’s premises and building at Sanchi. Construction of building will cost Rs 200 crore.
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by Gauri Kohli, Hindustan Times, September 25, 2012
New Delhi, India -- Delhi University’s department of Buddhist studies has been a major centre for the study of Buddhism for many years, attracting a large number of students from as many as 37 countries.
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TNN Sep 22, 2012
NEW DELHI, India -- The Supreme Court on Friday admitted a petition seeking transfer of exclusive management rights of 2,500 year-old Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya, a World Heritage site since 2002, to the Buddhists from the government.
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TNN, Sep 25, 2012
VARANASI, India -- As many as 28 countries have confirmed their participation in the proposed three-day International Buddhist Conclave (IBC) which will begin in the city from September 28. Around 350 delegates from 30 countries and 16 states of India will participate in the conclave being organised by governments of state and centre.
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Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy , 17 September 2012
Dharamshala, India -- Less than a year after his self-immolation protest, Tibetan monk Dawa Tsering is now making good recovery from his burn injuries, but his future remains uncertain, a source with contacts in Tibet told TCHRD Monday, September 17, 2012.
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TNN, Sep 17, 2012
LUCKNOW, India -- The two day international Buddhist conclave will be held in Varanasi on September 29-30.
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By ANN MARLOWE, Published on the Buddhist Channel, Sept 16, 2012 (Source: Wall Street Journal)
Kabul, Afghanistan -- Even as once-secure parts of Afghanistan succumb to criminality and the insurgency, and the Afghan financial system hovers on the brink of failure, there are small signs of hope here. A spectacular Buddhist archaeological site is now being excavated by the Afghan government's National Institute of Archaeology, near where Al Qaeda ran a training camp in the 1990s.
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Daily Pioneer, 11 September 2012
Madhya Pradesh, India -- The State Cabinet on Monday endorsed three ordinances, including the one on Sanchi Buddhist and Indian Knowledge Studies University. The Cabinet also endorsed amended ordinance regarding Techno-Global Private University in Vidisha district and Underground Pipeline, Cable and Duct (Acquisition of Powers for Land Use) Ordinance 2012.
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By D.C. Ranatunga, The Sunday Times, Sept 2, 2012
Statue to honour the Most Ven. Madihe Pannasiha Mahanayaka Thera on his 9th death anniversary
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- A statue of the Most Venerable Madihe Pannasiha Mahanayaka Thera will be unveiled in the heart of Matara by the people of his hometown, to mark the ninth anniversary of his passing away, on September 9, 2003.
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by Kumudini Hettiarachchi, The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka), Aug 26, 2012
Based on Buddhist philosophy, Damrivi, comprising professionals and academics provides innovative services to meet the challenges of modern life.
Colombo, Srfi Lanka -- Modern life is full of stress. Not only parents and children but even those living alone have a heavy workload. It is a race against time household chores, office work, school, extracurricular activity, tuition classes, each day starting early and ending late, only for the routine to begin the next day.
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by LALIT SHASTRI, August 22, 2012
Sanchi, India -- Sanchi University for Buddhist Studies is being set up at the initiative of the Madhya Pradesh government at Sanchi — the historic town near the state capital known for the world heritage Buddhist monuments dating back to the period of Ashoka in the third century BC.
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TNN Aug 22, 2012
BHOPAL, India -- Madhya Pradesh is all set to host an international conference on Hinduism and Buddhism next month with a view to promote inter-religious dialogue and exchange of ideas.
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Scoop News, August 15, 2012
Dharamsala/Jammu, India -- The Central Tibetan Administration based in Dharamsala deeply disturbed and concerned over the circulation of a misleading photograph in some section of the media showing Tibetan monks in their reports on the recent violence in Myanmar involving Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims, said in a statement issued from Dharamsala.
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by ND Shiva Kumar, TNN, Aug 12, 2012
BANGALORE, India -- Lord Buddha - smiling and sleeping -- is an added attraction in the Hyderabad-Karnatak region, the treasure of Islamic monuments.
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AFP, Aug 12, 2012
BAMIYAN, AFGANISTAN -- "It's there," says an archaeologist pointing to the ground, where fragments of a Buddha statue from the ancient Gandhara civilisation have been covered up to stop them being stolen or vandalised.
Just months before the US-led invasion in 2001, the Taliban regime shocked the world by destroying two giant, 1,500-year-old Buddhas in the rocky Bamiyan valley, branding them un-Islamic.
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Orissa Diary, August 9, 2012
Orissa, India -- Odisha Government urges Union Culture Ministry to ask NCERT to make corrections to its text on Buddhist sites by including ones in Odisha. Odisha Tourism Minister Maheswar Mohanty demanded this during his meeting with Union Culture Minister Kumari Selja in New Delhi.
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The Buddhist Channel, Aug 8, 2012
Leh, Ladakh (India) -- Mahabodhi International Meditation Centre, Leh, Ladakh, along with Nav Nalanda Maha Vihar, a University based in Nalanda, Bihar come together to bring an International Festival of Yoga, Meditation, Heritage, Culture, Talks, Art and Cinema to Leh, Ladakh from 3-9 September 2012.
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by Janaka Perera, The Buddhist Channel, July 26 2012
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- “The accepted theory of freedom of religion is the freedom to believe in any particular religion of one’s own choice, changing one’s religion should be a personal decision taken independent of any coercion, influence, terror, deceit or secrecy.”
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by Janaka Perera, Lankaweb, July 22, 2012
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The World Fellowship of Buddhists (WFB) in its final Declaration read out at the conclusion of the 26th General Conference held in Yeosu, South Korea from June 11-16, 2012, called on humanity, among other things, to extend compassion and loving kindness to all living beings as advocated by the Buddha.
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ColomboPage News Desk, Jul 21, 2012
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The National Buddhist Monks' Federation (Jathika Sangha Sammelanaya) of Sri Lanka has launched a campaign against moves to restrict Buddhist monks to teaching in government schools and temple schools for clergy.
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by Janaka Perera, The Nation (Sri Lanka), July 15, 2012
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- “The accepted theory of freedom of religion is the freedom to believe in any particular religion of one’s own choice, changing one’s religion should be a personal decision taken independent of any coercion, influence, terror, deceit or secrecy.”
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Times of India, Jul 15, 2012
BAHRAICH, India -- In a bid to explore opportunities of development of Buddhist tourist places in Uttar Pradesh, the Japanese finance minister Navkaju Takemoto along with the speaker of UP assembly Mata Prasad Pandey and state minister Balram Singh Yadav visited the International Buddhist places in Shrawasti. The delegation also visited Jetwan Vihar, Denmahamkol and the huts of Maheta.
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Arab News, July 8, 2012
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -- The Sri Lankan Embassy has rejected reports in Colombo claiming yesterday a Sri Lankan domestic worker has been arrested in Saudi Arabia for worshipping a statue of Lord Buddha.
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Ceylon Today, Jul 6, 2012
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -- A Sri Lankan youth employed as a domestic aid has been arrested in Saudi Arabia for worshiping a statue of the Buddha, which is considered an offence according to Shariah law.
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PTI, Jul 2, 2012
Aizawl, India -- More than 70 thousand Buddhists live in Christian-dominated Mizoram and they constitute the second largest religious group in the state, Statistical Abstract of Mizoram, 2011 said.
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The Buddhist Channel, Jul 3, 2012
LEH, India -- The 2-day annual celebration by the Drukpa Buddhists - the Hemis festival began today at the Hemis Monastery, Ladakh with much fanfare.
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The Korea Herald, June 26, 2012
JAHANABAD, Pakistan -- When the Taliban blew the face off a towering, 1,500-year-old rock carving of Buddha in northwest Pakistan almost five years ago, it fell to an intrepid Italian archaeologist to come to the rescue.
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Deccan Chronicle, June 25, 2012
Karnataka, India -- Karnataka tourism is looking at exploring Buddhist sites in the state for its religious tour circuit. Till now, Jain sites have been much promoted in the religious circuit, and with the new initiative, the department hopes to bring in increased domestic and foreign travellers.
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NY Daily News, June 20 2012
Nearly 35,000 Chakmas migrated to Arunachal Pradesh after being persecuted in both Bangladesh and Pakistan. However, Chakma refugees have no rights in India and are unable to vote or call themselves citizens.
Arunachal Pradesh, India -- Villagers in Diyun, a farming hamlet in India's remote northeast state of Arunachal Pradesh, wake up to the crack of dawn. They peep out of their huts and look at the sky. With clear weather, they set out for work.
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by Samangie WETTIMUNY, Lanka Daily News, Published on the Buddhist Channel, June 23, 2012
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Who is to be held responsible if an aged member of the Sangha, discharged from a government hospital, seeks shelter in the nearby bus stand for several days not knowing where to turn to? Is it the Buddhist laymen of the country, or the disciples of the aged monk? All should share the disgrace, I believe.
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by Lee Yu Ban, The Buddhist Channel, June 16, 2012
Vaishali, India -- About 2,600 years ago, the Buddha initiated the Order of bhikkhunis or nuns in Vaishali with the ordination of his aunt and step-mother, Maha Pajapati Gotami in the town of Vaishali, now in the state of Bihar, India.
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by Walter Jayawardhana, The Buddhist Channel, June 16, 2012
Arunchal Pradesh, India -- After Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, Arunchal Pradesh becomes the fourth state in India to receive the next fully fledged Buddhist Center by the allocation of funds by the Central government of India.
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by Naresh Mitra, TNN, June 13, 2012
GUWAHATI, India -- Buddhist monks of Arunachal Pradesh have asked Union power minister Sushil Kumar Shinde to scrap the hydroelectric power projects proposed to be constructed in Tawang as they would desecrate many sacred Buddhist spots in the district.
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The Buddhist Channel, June 4, 2012
Bangkok, Thailand -- A group of pro-active Indian and Sri Lankan Buddhists drawn from leading Buddhist organizations had a series of discussions on the sidelines of the World Buddhist Assembly gathering in Bangkok, Thailand (May 21 – 25, 2012) and decided to establish an ‘Indo – Sri Lanka Buddhist Network’ to pursue a number of preliminary aims and objectives that are beneficial to the cause of consolidating and spreading Buddhism in both countries and other parts of the world. It is anticipated that a more substantial organization would emerge with the passage of time from these interactions.
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By Tendar Tsering, Phayul, May 25, 2012
DHARAMSHALA, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai is scheduled to give his annual Buddhist teachings to Tibetan youngsters followed by a special introductory Buddhist teaching at the request of Indian Buddhists early next month.
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by Prof. W. I. SIRIWEERA, Lanka Daily News, May 26, 2012
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Sinhala term Mihintale is derived from Pali Mahindathala, the place of Thera Mahinda. It is well known that the first meeting of Thera Mahinda with King Devanampiya Tissa took place at Mihintale on Poson Full Moon Poya day.
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Phayul, May 22, 2012
DHARAMSHALA, India -- After years of debate and careful deliberation, Tibetan Buddhist nuns are finally set to receive Geshema degrees (equivalent of a PHD in Buddhist Philosophy).
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By Samten Yeshi and Gyalsten K Dorji, Kuensel Online, May 21, 2012
Timphu, Bhutan -- Gender inequality took over to blend with spirituality in the second session of the Mountain Echoes festival, which began yesterday at the Tarayana Centre in Thimphu.
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By Belinda Goldsmith, Reuters, May 18, 2012
THIMPHU, Bhutan -- They say you can't buy happiness - and it's something Bhutan is finding out the hard way.
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AFP, May 13, 2012
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- It is a hot, cloudless morning on a hillside on the outskirts of Kathmandu and dozens of nuns arrange themselves into lines around a golden Buddhist shrine.
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Lanka Daily News, May 12, 2012
Kotapola, Sri Lanka -- An international Buddhist delegation led by Ven Hou Jen Chun, the abbot of the World Buddhist Ch'an Jing Centre of the United States of America will visit Gatabaruwa Raja Maha Viharaya, Kotapola.
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By Uditha Jayasinghe, Xinhua, May 6, 2012
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Light sparkles on lanterns and lamps strung on the roadside and in homes as Sri Lanka celebrates its most popular religious festival Vesak here on Sunday.
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by Chaminda Perera and Priyanka Kurugala, Lanka Daily News, May 5, 2012
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The entire country is enveloped in spiritual fervour as the nation prepares to celebrate yet another Vesak Full Moon Poya Day marking the birth, enlightenment and passing away of the Buddha.
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ANI , 3 May 2012
Dharamsala, India -- The 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje attended a workshop on global peace and Buddhism here earlier this week.
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By Gyalsten K Dorji, Kuensel Online, May 3, 2012
Timphu, Bhutan -- An international conference on Buddhism will be held in Bumthang, this month. The conference, organised by the home ministry and the centre for Bhutan studies (CBS), is themed “Buddhism without Borders”, and will see “eminent” Buddhist practitioners, scholars, and academics of the international and local community, attending the event.
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By Lawrence Bartlett, The Daily Star, May 5, 2012
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan achieved global notoriety when the Taliban blew up the ancient Bamiyan Buddhas 11 years ago. This week opened an exhibition that highlights the country’s rich Buddhist heritage.
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by Lee Yu Ban, The Buddhist Channel, Apr 27, 2012
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- In the early period of His ministry, the Buddha did not lay down any regulations regarding dwelling places. The monks lived in the forests, at the roots of trees and in caves.
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PTI, April 21, 2012
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Thousands of Buddhist monks and their supporters stormed a mosque in Sri Lanka's north central town of Dambulla to protest its construction in an area designated as a Buddhist sacred zone.
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by KAMAL RATNA TULADHAR, Ekantipur.com, Apr 7, 2012
Kathmandu, Nepal -- Once upon a time in Nepal, it was illegal to become a Buddhist monk. You could get put in prison or sent out of the country. Bhikshu Kumar Kashyap was among a group of monks who were banished in 1944.
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The Sikkim Times, Publishhed on the Buddhist Channel March 27, 2012
Darjeeling, India -- Shri WANGDI TSHERING s/o Late Shri Mingyur Tshering, aged 77 years and a faithful follower of Buddhism has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India for handing over the management of The Bodh Gaya Temple over to the hands of Buddhists as The Bodh Gaya Temple Act 1949 which expressly vests control of the most sacred temple of the Buddhists into the hands of Hindus is ultra vires Article 25, 26, 29 and 30 of the Constitution of India.
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Dawn, March 21, 2012
TAXILA, Pakistan -- Royal Thai Princess Maha Chakkri Sirinthon on Tuesday offered religious rituals at the ancient Buddhist site of Julian near here.
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Express News Service, March 9, 2012
HYDERABAD, India -- A group of scholars from Wurzburg varsity, Germany are keen to do some project work on development of Buddhist sites and monuments in the state.
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DNA India, Mar 1, 2012
Mumbai, India -- “Indians, over centuries, have lost their Buddhist culture to countries like China,’’ said Charles Willemen, rector, International Buddhist College, Thailand.
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The Associated Press, Feb 25, 2012
Charamsala, India -- Tibet's exiled government in India called on Tibetans this year to shun celebrations for their traditional new year, which started Wednesday.
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T. V. Sivanandan, The Hindu, Feb 19, 2012
They were charged with removing idol found at ASI site
Gulbarga, India -- Fourth Additional District and Sessions judge Basavaraj Belawagi has granted conditional bail to Buddhist monk Banteji Bhodidhamma and four Dalit leaders who were charged with removing an idol of a Hindu goddess from an excavation site in Chithapur taluk of Gulbarga district under the control of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
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TNN, Feb 22, 2012
VARANASI, India -- Buddhism has not only influenced the art and culture of the country but also globalised the Indian culture. On that note, the Centre of Excellence, department of history, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth (MGKV) organised a seven-day national workshop on the 'Role of Buddhism in the Cultural Intergration of India' at the seminar hall of the history department on Tuesday.
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The Buddhist Channel / The Hindu, Feb 15, 2012
Gulbarga, India -- The arrest of Buddhist monk Bhante Bodhidharma and four leaders of Dalit organisations on February 6 in Gulbarga district is snowballing into a major controversy with Dalit groupsand Buddhist monks from different parts of the country increasing pressure on the Government to withdraw the cases filed against them and release them unconditionally.
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The Voice of Russia, February 13, 2012
New Delhi, India -- An exhibition devoted to the history of Buddhism in Russia has opened in India’s capital New Delhi.
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The Hindu, Feb 13, 2012
They enjoy a walk around the Buddhist Maha Chaitya
Amaravathi, India -- The sun shore brightly on a warm Sunday afternoon and the five-member Group Study Exchange (GSE) team from Finland set out to Amaravathi, a prominent Buddhist pilgrim centre.
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by S M Wijayaratne, Kurunegala Daily News, Feb 8, 2012
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- "Noble human values exist in the minds of the people because of the spiritual guidance offered by members of the Buddhist clergy. The Maha Sangha have always guided rulers to govern our country by utilizing the greatest teachings of the Buddha, whose compassion towards humanity was boundless.
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The Buddhist Channel, Jan 23, 2012
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Indian Buddhist leader Dr. B.R. Ambedkar deserves to be honoured with a commemorative Postage Stamp in Sri Lanka.
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TNN, Jan 22, 2012
PATNA, India -- Patna University (PU) has decided to set up a centre on Buddhist Studies to promote teaching and research on different aspects of Buddhism.
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TibetanReview.net, Jan12, 2012
Bihar, India -- More than 200,000 people from 63 countries attended the Dalai Lama’s 32nd Kalachakra teachings which concluded at Buddhism’s holiest place of Bodh Gaya in the Indian state of Bihar on Jan 10.
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PTI, Jan 1,2012
Bodh Gaya, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader, The Dalai Lama, today asked Buddhist devotees to follow the path of Lord Buddha for promoting world peace.
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DNA India, Jan 3, 2012
Bhuj, India -- Gujarat has many Buddhist heritage sites but it can now boast of a ‘live’ site at Gandhidham in Kutch district. It is in the form of a sapling from the original Bodhi tree at Bodh Gaya under which Lord Buddha attained Enlightenment 2,600 years ago.
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The Buddhist Channel, Dec 30, 2011
DELHI, India -- A strong contingent of 600 Monks and Nuns led by His Holiness the Gyalwang Drukpa (spiritual head of the Drukpa Lineage) are on a Pad Yatra (walking pilgrimage) from Mumbai to Sanchi via Ajanta Ellora spreading the message of peace, harmony, goodwill and respect for the environment.
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by Pradeepa Viswanathan, IPCS, December 23, 2011
Lumbini, Nepal -- Lumbini, the birthplace of Gautama Buddha has of late received the attention it deserves but sadly for the wrong reasons. The spiritual significance of the site appears to be in conflict with the ‘Greater Lumbini Project’ which proposes to commercialize the place.
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by Dhwani Pathak Dave, Ahmadebad Mirror, December 24, 2011
Abhigya Shukla is on a mission to educate kids studying in monasteries of Likir. Through Friends of Likir page on FB, she invites like-minded people to join her
Leh, Ladakh (India) -- It was a vacation to Ladakh that made 33-year-old educator Abhigya Shukla take up what now she regards as one of the most gratifying experiences of her life. Through a noble initiative - Friends of Likir -Abhigya plans to educate children in isolated villages of Ladakh.
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by YC. Dhardhowa, The Tibet Post International, 21 December 2011
Dharamshala, India -- After holding three days of teaching and initiation events in Dharamshala, India, today, December 21st, the Russian Federal State Education Institute- Tuva State University has awarded His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, an Honorary Doctorate in recognition of his outstanding contribution to freedom, Human Rights, religious harmony and environment protection.
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ANI, December 17, 2011
Bodhgaya, India -- The nine-day long Buddhist religious ceremony of Kagyu Monlam is being held in the Buddhist holy shrine of Mahabodhi Temple in Bodhgaya.
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DNA India, Dec 11, 2011
Mumbai, India -- A strong contingent of 450 monks and nuns, led by His Holiness the Gyalwang Drukpa (spiritual head of the 1000-year-old Drukpa Lineage) embarked on a "pad yatra" (march for peace) from Mumbai to Sanchi via Ajanta Ellora spreading the message of peace, harmony and respect for the environment.
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IANS, December 9, 2011
Dharamsala, India -- Two days after police included the name of Tibetan religious head and 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje in a chargesheet on the seizure this year of huge unaccounted foreign currency from the monastery where he is residing, his office here on Friday assured the investigating agencies of full cooperation.
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by Rajani Shrestha, Review Nepal, Dec 9, 2011
Mandela, Nepal -- Hundreds of Buddhists demonstrated in Nepal's capital to protest the appointment of Maoist party chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal to head a project to develop the area where Buddha was believed born in southern Nepal.
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by Manu Pubby, Indian Express, Nov 28 2011
New Delhi, India -- Supreme spiritual leaders representing most nations with a sizeable Buddhist population are close to deciding on the formation of a new international body based in India that aims to give a united voice to Buddhism in international forums like the United Nations (UN).
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ColomboPage News Desk, Nov 29, 2011
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- A leading Buddhist boys' school in Colombo, Ananda College, held its 125th Anniversary celebrations today (29) at the college premises with the participation of President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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by Lama Lobzang, Hindustan Times, November 25, 2011
New Delhi, India -- To celebrate the 2600th year of Sambodhiprapti (enlightenment of the Buddha), over 800 world Buddhist leaders and scholars are going to have brain-storming sessions in New Delhi from Nov 27 to 30, under the umbrella theme - 'Collective Wisdom, United Voice'. Organised by Ashoka Mission, New Delhi, the congregation will be aptly known as Global Buddhist Congress.
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by Hameed Shaheen, Pakistan Observer, Nov 17, 2011
Islamabad, Pakistan -- The patron Buddhists spiritual elder Dalai Lama predicted that the solution to Kashmir dispute would come via “talks” and “understanding”, recalling that Ambaran was the ancient Buddhist site and diverse religions co-existed in Kashmir for centuries.
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Indo-Asian News Service, November 14, 2011
Dharamsala, India -- The excavation of a site in Jammu and Kashmir that is believed to be linked with an ancient Buddhist monastery has attracted the attention of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.
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Sunday Leader, Nov 6, 2011
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- While some Sri Lankans have shed copious tears over the assassination of Mummar Gaddafi, there is not even a whimper of protest on reports of a recent wave of self immolation of many Tibetans in desperation against what has been described as the hardening of Chinese repression.
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PTI, Nov 1, 2011
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Nepalese security personnel today detained over 50 Tibetans, including 19 women in the capital for rallying in support of ten Buddhist monks and nuns who have self-immolated in Tibet in protest against Chinese rule.
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by Sandun A. Jayasekera, The Daily Mirror, 24 October 2011
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- An Austrian, Natascha Kampusch who hit world headlines in 2006 after she was rescued from a secret cellar where she had been confined for eight years has in an act of benevolence donated a children’s hospital to Sri Lanka built at a cost of Rs.15 million.
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The Star, 22 October, 2011
Bhutan, sandwiched between India and China, is proof that happiness does not necessarily come with high income.
Timphu, Bhutan -- BHUTAN is still buzzing in elation over a royal wedding. Its hugely popular, Oxford-educated King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, 31, has just presented them with his new queen, the beautiful commoner Jetsun Pema, 21.
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PTI, Oct 17,2011
Jammu, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will visit the Buddhist site of Ambaran on the outskirts of the city next month and inaugurate a photo exhibition on the ancient sites in Akhnoor.
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by Ruchir Kumar, Hindustan Times,October 04, 2011
Patna, India -- Thieves have rendered the international airport at Gaya, the famous Buddhist pilgrimage centre in Bihar, non-conducive for night landing of aircraft. The night landing apparatus is in place at the airport, but the solar power obstruction lights atop surrounding hills have been stolen.
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by Saibal Gupta, PTI, Sep 25, 2011
Sikkim , India -- It was a providential escape for the 60-odd monks living in the century-old Ringjhim Buddhist monastery in North Sikkim whose prayer room was reduced to rubble in the temblor that shook Sikkim last Sunday.
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by Pranava K Chaudhary, Times of India, Sep 22, 2011
PATNA, India -- Nava Nalanda Mahavihara (deemed to be university) in collaboration with the department of youth, art and culture has initiated a project titled, 'Revival of the Ancient Buddhist Pilgrimage in Bihar'.
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by Syed Zain al-Mahmood, The Guardian, 26 September 2011
Nepalese monastery is enjoying a surge in popularity after spiritual leader introduces martial arts classes
Kathmandu, Nepal -- A Buddhist monastery near Kathmandu is enjoying a surge in popularity after its spiritual leader directed its 300 nuns to use martial arts techniques.
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by Jaideep Mazumdar, TNN, Sep 22, 2011
GANGTOK, Sikkim (India) -- Buddhist prayer flags flutter serenely in the mountain breeze and senior monks in deep red robes, their faces creased with age and worry, shuffle around clutching their ubiquitous prayer beads.
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by Pranava K Chaudhary, Time of India, Sep 22, 2011
PATNA, India -- Nava Nalanda Mahavihara (deemed to be university) in collaboration with the department of youth, art and culture has initiated a project titled, 'Revival of the Ancient Buddhist Pilgrimage in Bihar'.
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By Tendar Tsering, Phayul, September 22, 2011
DHARAMSALA, India -- Heads and representatives of four major traditions and sub-traditions of Tibetan Buddhism and ancient Bon tradition are taking part in a 3 – day religious conference that began today at Surya Hotel here. The Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama will preside over the meeting Friday.
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by Vijetha S. N., The Hindu, Sept 16, 2011
New Delhi, India -- India saw the birth of many religions that soon spread to the rest of the world, and Buddhism in particular was adopted by many countries including Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Russia where Buddhist shrines have managed, in part, to withstand the ravages of war and time.
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by R Chandrasoma, The Buddhist Channel, September 15,
Is the Folk-Buddhism currently practiced in Sri Lanka a major shift from the Canonical Buddhism of the Sutras?
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- At its heart, the Canonical Buddhism of the Sutras endeavors the samsaric wayfarer to uplift their spiritual condition through knowledge of the Noble Truths enunciated by our compassionate teacher, the Buddha.
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by Padma Kumari Kankanamge, The Sunday Times, Sept 11, 2011
Dependents all at sea as the men languish in Indian jail for more than one and a half years
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- A group of Sri Lankan fishermen languishing in an Indian jail for over one and a half years has asked the State to intervene to get them released. A Buddhist monk heading a campaign on behalf of the fishermen from Puttalam has launched a fast seeking their release.
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ColomboPage News Desk, Sep 10, 2011
Kandy, Sri Lanka -- India's High Commissioner in Sri Lanka Ashok K. Kantha on Saturday unveiled a 16 feet high idol of Lord Buddha in the Sarnath style from the Gupta Period, at the entrance of the International Buddhist Museum complex in Sri Dalada Maligawa in the central hill capital Kandy.
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by Anusha Parthasarathy, The Hindu, Sept 8, 2011
In Bodhgaya, Anusha Parthasarathy tries to pluck a leaf from the Bodhi tree as a souvenir
Bodhgaya, India -- The moment our car turned into a narrow, rocky path off NH 2 and I began to hang on to dear life, I knew we had arrived in Bodhgaya, a Buddhist town in Bihar.
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by Ugyen Penjore, Kuensel Online, Sept 7, 2011
Dratsang (scholars) says 108 mani prayer flags not mandatory
Timphu, Bhutan -- In what could be called a blessing from the monastery to policy makers, environmentalists and conservationists, who are caught up in a conservation dilemma, members of the dratsang yesterday proposed cremations without using firewood.
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India Blooms News Service, Sept 5, 2011
New Delhi, India -- A new center for Tibetan Studies was inaugurated by The Dalai Lama at the campus of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) here on Monday during the 24th convocation of the university.
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ColomboPage News Desk, Aug 28, 2011
New Delhi, India -- Sri Lanka High Commission in New Delhi announced today that three persons of a group of pilgrims who were on a pilgrimage in India visiting the sacred Buddhist sites have gone missing.
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by DEWAN RAI, Nepal Times, Jul 22, 2011
Kathmandu, Nepal -- Krishna Tamang had taken his cattle out to graze on a meadow near his farm in Bhojpur in eastern Nepal. Dark clouds were gathering over the mountains beyond, and he had a sense of foreboding. At 2 pm, a neighbour ran up to tell him his daughter had fallen sick in Chainpur. Krishna borrowed some money and headed off with his brother.
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by Akshya Rout, Orrisa Diary, , August 14, 2011
Jajpur, India -- To attract more tourists to Langudi, Kaima, Neulipur, Tarapur and other hills in Jajpur district, the state government will spend 14 crores within four years, said Ashok Tripathy the secretary of tourism and culture department of Orissa on Saturday. Tripathy along with senior officials visited these Buddhist sites on Saturday.
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By Sandeep Sharma, Chakra News, Aug 14, 2011
New Delhi, India -- No less a person than Mahatma Gandhi once estimated that nearly a quarter of Hindus had converted to Islam over the past on thousand years. How true is this statement ?
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By Michael De Groote, Deseret News, Aug. 9, 2011
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- A Buddhist nun raped by five men on a bus is facing ostracism from her religious life. "The religious dictum requires a nun to be virgin. So, it will be difficult to take her back," the president of Nepal, Tamang Ghedung Kumar Yonjan, said in an article in the Nepal Republic Media. "But we will lobby for her reinstatement as it is a unique incident."
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by Anuradha Gunarathne, Global Press Institute, August 8, 2011
KELANIYA, SRI LANKA -- Nilantha Dias and his father operate a flower boutique in Kelaniya, a small town near Colombo, Sri Lanka's capital. The shop, which specializes in flowers and other items used for worship, is one of 11 boutiques that belong to the much revered Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara temple here.
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IANS, August 08, 2011
Bodh Gaya, Bihar (India) -- A total shutdown was observed in this Bihar town, known as the birthplace of Buddhism, Monday to protest the district administration's anti-encroachment drive.
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Rediff.com, Aug 7, 2011
Kathmandu, Nepal -- By Marxist-Leninist principles, this must be a masterstroke — getting left-wing Maoists and right-wing monarchists together in a bandwagon to revive the great legacy of Buddhism in Nepal. This is Chinese diplomatic ingenuity at its best and India has no answer.
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TNN, Aug 3, 2011
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- A 40-year-old Buddhist nun who began as a rebel and then transformed into one of Nepal's most popular singing stars, has now created another milestone in Nepal's religious as well as social history by offering sanctuary to a nun half her age, who became stigmatised after being gangraped last month.
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by Ashwini Shrivastava, PTI, Jul 30, 2011
New Delhi, India -- India has liberalised its visa regime for Buddhists scholars from Mongolia to deepen cultural ties and boost bilateral relations between the two nations.
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TNN Jul 28, 2011
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Less than a fortnight after a Chinese nongovernmental organisation announced its plan for what amounted to a virtual takeover of Lumbini, the birthplace of the Buddha in Nepal, Nepal's government on Thursday unceremoniously rejected it, saying it would not entertain any deal struck in a third country without the participation of the actual stakeholders.
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TNN Jul 19, 2011
ITANAGAR, India -- Arunachal Pradesh is all set to introduce Bhoti - one of the richest ancient languages of the world - as a subject in schools across Buddhist-inhabited areas in four districts from the next academic session.
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TNN Jul 21, 2011
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- A 21-year-old Buddhist nun from Nepal, who was said to have "lost" her religion and become unfit to remain a nun after being gangraped, is now likely to be re-admitted to her nunnery, thanks to a growing outrage worldwide.
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By Melissa Chan, Al-Jazeera, Jul 16, 2011
Lumbini, Nepal -- The town of Lumbini in Nepal is where the Buddha was born as Prince Gautama Siddhartha, before achieving enlightenment more than 2,500 years ago.
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PTI, Jul 17,2011
New Delhi, India -- An officer from the Western Coalfields Limited (WCL) (a Government of India Undertaking) have denied that ancient Buddhist caves around Chandrapur were destroyed during coal-mining.
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TNN, Jul 16, 2011
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- As the 21-year-old Buddhist nun from Nepal who had been gang-raped in a public bus returned to Kathmandu after initial medical treatment in India's border town of Siliguri, a debate finally began to grow about the attack in the Himalayan republic, that had so far remained largely silent on her suffering.
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TNN, Jul 7, 2011
PATNA, India -- The Nav Nalanda Mahavihara, a esteemed university, will organize exhibitions and seminars on Buddhist literature with a view to popularizing Buddhist studies.
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by Ridma DISSANAYAKE, Lanka Daily News, July 9, 2011
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The newly built Buddha Mandiraya in Kothalawalapura Samadhi Buddhist Centre, Ratmalana was opened by President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday.
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by Shantanu Chakraborty, Hindustan Times, July 10, 2011
Gaya, India -- Jayprakash Narain International aiport, Patna may be still struggling to match up to its name. But it's Bodh Gaya that will be going international sooner. The news is, that Air India, Minhin Lanka of the emerald isle-Sri Lanka, Druk Air, Bhutan and Phuket Airlines of Thailand are about to resume international services from Bodh Gaya by October.
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by Gaurav Bisht, Hindustan Times, July 5, 2011
Shimla, India -- Amidst hectic lobbying by his followers in the corridors of power, government has finally Ogyen Trinley Dorje- 17th Karmapa, who is parallel head of powerful Kagyu karma sect of Tibetan Buddhist to travel to United States to attend Kalchakra.
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PTI, June 29, 2011
Allahabad, India -- A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was today filed in the Allahabad high court alleging that derogatory remarks have been made against followers of Buddhism in the latest issue of a monthly magazine published by yoga guru Ramdev.
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IANS, Jun 27, 2011,
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- A 21-year-old Buddhist nun was gangraped by five men inside a bus in eastern Nepal, media reports said Monday.
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The Sunday Times, June 26, 2011
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Sussex college network conducted a range of Buddhist programmes to commemorate the Wesak festival, the Poson Festival and the Sambuddhathva Jayanthi in their branches island wide.
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APP, June 20, 2011
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Millions of Sri Lankan devotees paid homage to sacred relics of Lord Buddha from Pakistan during a 17-day exposition of the sacred relics in Sri Lanka.
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Sunday Observer, June 19, 2011
Kathmandu, Nepal -- China is providing funds to Nepal to build a US$3 billion Buddhist Centre to attract millions of pilgrims and spiritual tourists to the birthplace of the Buddha.
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ColomboPage News Desk, Jun 15, 2011
Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka -- More than half a million devotees have reportedly gathered in in the sacred city of Anuradhapura in North Central Province of Sri Lanka for the Poson festival that marks the introduction of Buddhism to the island by Arhat Mahinda of India during the rule of Emperor Asoka, 2318 years ago.
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Asiantribune.com, June 17, 2011
New Delhi, India -- Sikkhimis spiritual leader His Holiness 17th Gyalwa Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorge of Sikkim called on Buddhist scholars to undertake research on the doctrines of Theravada and Mahayana schools of Buddhism and introduce a uniform set of Buddhist teachings, values and principles for the betterment of the world.
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TOI, Jun 16, 2011
BERHAMPUR, India -- Tibetans in the state performed special rituals on Wednesday celebrating the end of the most auspicious month of the Buddhist calendar.
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Phayul, June 16, 2011
Kathmandu, Nepal -- “Noble Wisdom”, the first of its kind Buddhist television programme has now been made available in Nepal said the Sherab Sangpo Society, producers of the programme in a release, today.
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Reuters, Jun 16, 2011
Kathmandu, Nepal -- A Chinese-backed foundation and Nepal’s government plan to transform Lord Buddha’s birthplace in southern Nepal into a magnet for Buddhists in the same way as Mecca is to Muslims and the Vatican for Catholics. The Asia Pacific Exchange and Cooperation Foundation plans to raise $3 billion at home and abroad to build temples, an airport, a highway, hotels, convention centres and a Buddhist university in the town of Lumbini, about 171 km (107 miles) southwest of Nepal’s capital Kathmandu.
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Deccan Chronicle, June 11, 2011
New Delhi, India -- A small group of Ambedkar followers in Warangal is trying to popularise the concept of Buddhist marriages among Dalits as such marriages are seen as rational and a financially viable option for poor families, who cannot afford the costly and elaborate rituals in Hindu marriages.
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TNN, Jun 8, 2011
NAGPUR, India -- On December 23, 2009, the then chief minister Ashok Chavan on December 23, 2009 announced during the assembly session in Nagpur that a Buddhist theme park would be set up at Telangkhedi lake.
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Pak Observer, June 10, 2011
Karachi, Pakistan -- Pakistan can learn a lot and earn valuable foreign exchange if Buddhist tourism is promoted in Pakistan with the help and experience of the Thailand private sector since over 6% of Thai GDP is due to tourism. At the same time, Thailand can help develop tourist resorts and tours also either as joint ventures or through consultative inputs.”
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APP, June 6, 2011
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- In order to present the richest Buddhist historical legacy to the Sri Lankan people, Pakistan has sent the most sacred relics of the Lord Buddha to Sri Lanka. These relics arrived in Sri Lanka recently for a limited period and will be exhibited at Colombo Museum during the month of June.
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By Amal Jayasinghe, AFP, June 4, 2011
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Hundreds of Buddhist monks took to the streets of Sri Lanka's capital Friday to express solidarity with factory workers protesting a controversial pensions bill.
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by Ayesha Arvind, TNN, Jun 2, 2011
GREATER NOIDA, India -- The life and teachings of Lord Buddha will soon be immortalized in a museum-cum-research centre solely dedicated to the seer and founder of Buddhism in Greater Noida. In its board meeting earlier last month, the Authority approved the construction of a state-of-the-art Buddhist Museum and Research Centre spread over 25 acres of land within the Gautam Budh University campus.
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By Rajitha Weerakoon, The Sunday Times, May 29, 2011
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka, having preserved Buddhism in its purest form since its introduction in 236 BC, was undisputedly the key player in the 2600th Sambuddhathva Jayanthi celebrations. But what caused Buddhism to flourish in Sri Lanka as opposed to the country of the Buddha’s birth where Buddhism has little relevance today?
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By Dr. Eugene DSouza, Bellevision Media Network, May 24, 2011
Udupi, India -- As a part of the 2600th birth anniversary of Lord Gautama Buddha, a large number of Dalits from different parts of the Karnataka State embraced Buddhism (Dhamma Dheekshe) in the forenoon of Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at a function held at Shri Narayanaguru Sabha Bhavan, Bannanje, Udupi. The ‘Dhamma Dheekshe’ was administered by the Buddhist Monk, Manorakkhita Bhanteji in association with Monk Long Sang and Monk Ten guru.
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VNA, May 23, 2011
Kandy, Sri Lanka -- Vietnam is among 16 other Buddhist countries sending Buddhist art and ritual objects to the International Buddhist Museum in Sri Lanka’s ancient capital city of Kandy.
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By Chandani Kirinde, The Sunday Times, May 22, 2011
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- An Additional Secretary to the Ministry of Posts has been appointed to look into allegations that a set of four stamps issued to mark the Sambuddhatva Jayanthi celebrations are faulty.
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The Lion & Sword, May 19, 2011
New York, USA -- The gray skies above Manhattan could not dampen spirits below as Buddhist monks and nuns from all corners of the globe assembled before the United Nations midtown headquarters on Monday, their robes a brilliant patchwork of saffron and burgundy against the drab urban backdrop.
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IANS, May 17, 2011
Greater Noida, India -- The Gautam Buddha University here Tuesday marked Buddha Poornima with a seminar focussing on Buddhism in India.
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THT Online, May 17, 2011
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- The 2555th Buddha Jayanti is being observed organising various rituals and programmes all across the country to commemorate the birth, enlightenment and death of Lord Buddha, the founder of Buddhism.
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by Sanjay Sharma, Times of India, May 17, 2011
CHANDIGARH, India -- A rural Hindu boy found peace sitting in Buddhist ruins around historically important Yamunanagar, his hometown, when he felt low during his engineering pursuit from Kurukshetra University.
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AFP, May 17, 2011
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka freed 858 convicts on Tuesday to mark the most important day in the Buddhist calendar, a prison official said.
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Lanka Daily News, 16 May 2011
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Theravada Buddhism which taught us to move forward as a nation on the path of kindness, tolerance, humanity, equality and harmony is the greatest gift we can bestow upon the world, President Rajapaksa said addressing at the opening ceremony of the Sri Sambuddathva Jayanthi International Buddhist Centre in Thummulla, Colombo.
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ColomboPage News Desk, May 15, 2011
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Information Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka has taken measures to make all Buddhist religious school books available online.
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By Janaka Alahapperuma, The Buddhist Channel, May 9, 2011
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared open the Sambuddhathwa Jayanthi Mandiraya building at the Manelwathu Maha Vihara premises at Bollegala in Kelaniya to mark the 2600 Sambuddhathwa Jayanthi Anniversary on 7 May.
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AFP, May 9, 2011
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- A Sri Lankan minister and members of an all-Buddhist political party on Sunday shaved their heads before embarking on a meditation programme to mark the 2,600 anniversary of the religion.
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by Priyanka Kurugala, Lanka News, May 5, 2011
World’s first Buddhist museum in Kandy
Kandy, Sri Lanka -- The opening ceremony of the largest Buddhist Mandiraya of the Therawadi Buddhist World, the Sri Sambuddhthwa Jayanthi Mandiraya, will take place under President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s patronage on May 15 at 8.30 am, Buddhist Cultural Center Director and Founder Father of the Buddhist Information Centre Ven Kirama Wimalajothi Thera said.
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PTI, Apr 30, 2011
TOKYO, Japan -- The Dalai Lama has said that he would serve as a "pure spiritual leader" after handing over his "legitimate political authority" to Lobsang Sangay, the newly elected Prime Minister of Tibet's government-in-exile.
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Sunday Times, May 1, 2011
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka will host an international conference on Islamic-Buddhist dialogue for world peace on Wednesday and Thursday in Colombo. President Mahinda Rajapaksa and opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe are among key speakers, with former minister and Sri Lanka Islamic Centre Chairman M. H. Mohamed said.
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ANI, 28 Apr 2011
New Delhi, India -- Hindus have sent greetings to Buddhist communities worldwide for the upcoming Vesakha.
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By Janaka Alahapperuma, The Buddhist Channel, Apr 22, 2011
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- President Mahinda Rajapaksa returned to Sri Lanka today (Wednesday) on 20 April after a three day State visit to Bangladesh. President returned with sacred hair relics (Kesha Dhathu) of the Lord Buddha given by Bangladesh. The sacred relics will be deposited at the Hunupitiya Gangaramaya Temple in Colombo from 6.00 pm today.
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The Hindu, Apr 18, 2011
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- The festival of lighting lamps at Bouddha Stupa by Buddhists on the day of Chaitra Shukla Purnima in memory of their deceased relatives concluded on Monday.
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by Sandhya Nair, TNN, Apr 14, 2011
MUMBAI, India -- The state, along with the Vasai-Virar municipal corporation is drawing up a proposal to restore and preserve a Buddhist stupa in Nalasopara (W). The stupa, which comes under the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), has been neglected for many years. The state plans to convert it into an international centre.
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By KENCHO WANGDI / Thimphu Tuesday, Apr. 12, 2011
Timphu, Bhutan -- On March 3, Sonam Tshering, a Buddhist monk, was sentenced to three years in prison in the Himalayan nation of Bhutan. His crime? Trying to smuggle $2.50 worth of chewing tobacco into Bhutan from India.
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Indian Express, Apr 10 2011
Lucknow, India -- The Buddhist circuit in UP is all set to get a major boost as airline companies from Sri Lanka, Nepal, China and Thailand are keen to start their services from Varanasi.
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Lanka Daily News, Apr 9, 2011
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Russian government will implement several religious programmes in view of the 2600th Sambuddhathwa Jayanthi.
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by Pranava K Chaudhary, TNN, Apr 6, 2011
PATNA, India -- The Bihar government will soon begin mapping the lost and forgotten Buddhist pilgrimage routes in the state with an aim to revive its old glory and promote tourism.
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The Telegraph, India, April 4, 2011
New Delhi, India -- India has sought Thailand’s help to develop the country’s Buddhist trail that continues to lack good air and road connectivity as well as hotels.
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AFP, Apr 5, 2011
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- An international conservation team has begun work on restoring three endangered monuments at Buddha's supposed birthplace in southern Nepal, officials said on Tuesday.
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TamilNet, 3 April 2011
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Members of Sri Lanka's Prersident appointed Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) had met the Mahanayaka Theras of the Malwatte and Asgiriya Chapters last week to seek guidance before preparing the final report scheduled to be presented by May 15, according to a news report published in English weekly Lakbima on Sunday. The Buddhist prelates exercise a dominant influence on the Sri Lankan regime.
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The hindu, March 29, 2011
New Delhi, India -- THIS IS an interesting account of the history of Buddhism in Tamil Nadu and its impact on Tamil by Mylai Seeni Venkatasami, one of the most respected writers who has authored a number of similar research works relating to Jainism and Christianity.
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The Himalayan Times, Mar 29, 2011
Monks, students and religious leaders met in the Nepali capital on 27-28 March. Buddha’s teachings and interfaith cooperation can be used against social ills caused by war and economic development. For a Japanese monk, “religion can give people a message of peace and solidarity.”
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Asian Buddhists organised an international conference at the Center for Nepal Asia Studies (CNAS) in Kathmandu on 27-28 March. The purpose of the meeting was to see how the Buddha’s example and religion in modern society could bring about peace and solidarity in the world.
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by Dorji Tshering, Kuensel Online, Mar 27, 2011
The author argues that both the life and development philosophies have suffered debasement
Timphu, Bhutan -- Buddhism was so pure when it was born and first delivered to the world. Since then the great vehicle of compassion has been through an evolutionary process of constant change. Today, the way we practise the religion begs the question of whether it is already corrupt? If it is so, then it is a sign of the times. And it is only fitting to explore whether our other values have also suffered the same fate.
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by Sutirtho Patranobis, Hindustan Times, March 21, 2011
Kandy, Sri Lanka -- The unresolved fishermen issue and other diplomatic concerns might be plaguing the two countries but India and Sri Lanka attempted to strengthen their religious and cultural ties this week. On Sunday, President Mahinda Rajapaksa inaugurated an international Buddhist conference organised by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) in the central hill district town of Kandy.
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Dawn, March 21, 2011
MARDAN, Pakistan -- A delegation of the Society of Asian Civilisations on Monday visited the Buddhist religious and historical sites in Takht Bhai, and Gandhara Research Centre of the Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan.
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by Pranava K Chaudhary, TNN , Mar 17, 2011
PATNA, India -- There's good news for Buddhist pilgrims visiting Rajgir and Nalanda - a park dedicated to the historic meeting between Buddha and Maha Kassapa will be set up soon at Silao, a short distance from here, on way to Rajgir. While its site will be inaugurated on Friday, the designing and construction will take some time.
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IANS, March 11, 2011
Dharamsala, India -- Buddhist monks and nuns gathered on Sunday morning in monasteries in India to pray for those who lost their lives in the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan two days ago.
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Sify News, March 10, 2011
Patna, India -- Buddhism's holiest town is facing a particularly un-Buddhist squable over money and power. The International Buddhist Council Thursday threatened to shut all its monasteries and institutions in Bodh Gaya in Gaya district if the electricity department did not withdraw its move of disconnecting power supply to eight monasteries.
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Sunday Observer, March 13, 2011
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne, the Sarvodaya leader, has been selected by the Buddhist Association of Japan - Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, to receive the 45th Annual Cultural Award for the Promotion of Buddhism in the world. The only other Sri Lankan who had won this prestigious award was the late President J.R. Jayewardene in 1983.
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PTI, Mar 13, 2011
Dalai Lama offers prayers for Japan quake, tsunami victims
Dhramsala, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama offered prayers here for the victims of the massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
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By Andrew Buncombe and Omar Waraich, The Independent, 5 March 2011
Timphu, Bhutan -- The Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, famed for its unspoilt natural beauty and social policy of gross national happiness, found itself at the centre of bitter controversy yesterday after a Buddhist monk caught carrying tobacco worth under £2 was jailed for three years.
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Sify News, March 4, 2011
Dharamsala, India -- As the 17th Karmapa gets ready to hold spiritual discourses in the pilgrim town of Sarnath - for the first time after controversy over the recovery of foreign currency in his monastery - renowned Buddhist teacher and author Mingyur Rinpoche has also come out in his support.
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Deutsche Welle, Feb 25, 2011
Bamiyan, Afghanistan -- Exactly 10 years ago, on February 26, 2001, Taliban leader Mullah Omar ordered the destruction of two enormous and ancient Buddha statues in the Bamiyan region of Afghanistan.
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The New Straits Times, Feb 28, 2011
Nalanda, India -- By end-2013, an Asian university with a universal outlook and approach will take shape 887km east of New Delhi, to match what is being billed as the “Asian century”.
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Deccan Chronicle, Feb 27, 2011
Gangtok, Sikkim (India) -- Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has assured a Buddhist delegation that he will personally look into the matter of Karmapa Ugyen Trinley Dorje and review the entire case.
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Chakra News, February 27, 2011
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- In March, India will hold an international Buddhism conference in Kandy to celebrate the 2600th year of Lord Buddha’s enlightenment.
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by Aarti Dhar, The Hindu, Feb 22, 2011
University will start with seven schools, primarily in humanities
NEW DELHI, India -- The Governing Board of the new Nalanda University on Monday laid down a road map to make the institution functional tentatively by 2013. The recruitment of faculty would be done one or two semesters before the first batch is enrolled so that they have a role in finalising the course structure.
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by Hemanthi Guruge, Lanka Daily News, Feb 22, 2011
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The National Bhikhu Front (NBF) has requested the Government and relevant authorities to prevent the misuse of Buddhist symbols, stanzas for political advantage.
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Aces Showbiz, February 17, 2011
Dhramsala, India -- The Buddhist leader is in a great sadness after his nephew, Jigme K. Norbu, was hit by a car and killed during a charity walk on Monday, February 14.
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ANI, Feb 13, 2011
New Delhi, India -- Hindus have sent early greetings to Buddhist communities worldwide for the upcoming Magha Puja day, which falls on February 18.
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PTI, Feb 13, 2011
New Delhi, India -- India will hold an international conference in Sri Lanka next month to observe the 2600th year of the enlightenment of Lord Buddha and also commission an art gallery and a 16-feet high Buddha statue there.
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Lanka Daily News, Feb 14, 2011
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM) will launch a monumental text on "Buddhist Ecclesiastical Law" authored by the well known lawyer and legal academic Dr Wickrema Weerasooria on February 15. The Guests of Honour for the function are Ven Professor Bellawnwila Wimalaratana, Chancellor, University of Sri Jayawardenapura, Chief Justice Asoka de Silva and former Attorney General, Acting Chief Justice and Supreme Court Judge Rajah Wanasundera.
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By Janaka Perera, The Asian Tribune, Feb 14, 2011
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- A resolution vehemently condemning government’s nonchalance in retaining Sri Lanka’s Buddhist image was unanimously adopted at a largely attended meeting held at the All Ceylon Buddhist Congress Hall, Colombo on February 11. The issue is a covert move by the Prime Minister to promote a multi-religious program on the pretext of commemorating the 2600th Sambuddhathva Jayanthi (Anniversary of the of Siddhartha Gauthama’s attainment of Buddhahood).in May, 2011.
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By Vishal Arora, Religion News Service, Feb 10, 2011
NEW DELHI, India -- The government commissioner charged with promoting "Gross National Happiness" in the tiny Buddhist nation of Bhutan said he was deeply dismayed by a recent study that found a majority of Bhutanese women think their husbands have the right to beat them.
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TNN, Feb 9, 2011
RAJKOT, India -- In order to give new impetus to Gujarat branding itself as the latest Buddhist pilgrimage destination. The state government has chalked out a plan to develop tourist infrastructure at sites associated with Buddhism and has prepared a comprehensive plan to market these sites to tourist.
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IANS, Feb 7, 2011
Panaji, India -- Buddhist spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama Monday suggested that the numerous temples of worship mushrooming across the country should also house libraries along with statues of deities.
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By Subir Bhaumik BBC News, Feb 1, 2011
Timphu, Bhutan -- Monks in Bhutan Monks are highly respected in deeply religious Bhutan.
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by Melani Manel Perera, Asia News, Jan 29, 2011
Attack on four monks and damage to temple can not be attributed to guerrilla groups or to members of the LTTE. Representatives of all religions call for calm, to continue to live "as one family."
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Representatives of all religions in Sri Lanka strongly condemn the recent attack on the Buddhist Maha Bodhi temple in Chennai, India, in which four Sri Lankan Buddhist monks were injured.
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by The Associated Press, January 29, 2011
DHARMSALA, India -- Indian authorities are investigating the source of large amounts of money found in a northern Indian monastery that is the headquarters of Tibetan Buddhism's third most important leader, police said Saturday.
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IANS, Jan 28, 2011
Agra, India -- Nearly 300 Buddhist monks from Thailand, Poland, England, Ireland and Germany, walking across India for world peace and welfare, have reached the Taj city.
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Asian Tribune, Jan 29, 2011
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Eleven Buddha statues donated by Thailand to Sri Lanka's proposed International Buddhist Museum (IBM) will arrive in Colombo in February.
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by Sutirtho Patranobis, Hindustan Times, January 25, 2011
Chennai, India -- Sri Lanka on Tuesday expressed concern over the attack on the Sri Lanka Maha Bodhi Centre in Chennai late on Monday night in which three of its citizens were injured.
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ANI, Jan 19, 2011
Bodh Gaya, India -- Concerned at the looming Maoist threat in the region, authorities beefed up security around a revered Buddhist temple in Bihar's Bodhgaya town.
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Orissa Current News, January 21, 2011
Bhubaneswar, India -- Addressing the conference on tourism potential between South Korea and Odisha held here by the Odisha Tourism Development Corporation (OTDC) on Thursday to mark the United Nations International Day of Peace, Rajya Sabha member Pyari Mohan Mohapatra expressed the hope that the process of a tie-up between the South Korean Province of Jellonamdo and Odisha to promote tourism and other economic activities would attract Buddhist tourists to the State in large numbers from South Korea and Japan.
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TNN, Jan 12, 2011
VARANASI, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, said that all living beings in the world feel pain and sorrow, but only humans can feel the pain and sorrow of others.
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ANI, Jan 9, 2011
Bodh gaya, India -- Buddhists in Bihar's Bodhgaya city fear that things could get worse following the death of a sacred 'golden fish' inside the temple pond due to freezing temperature on Sunday.
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ANI, Jan 12, 2011
Lumbini, Nepal -- An international team of archaeologists has begun a three-year survey, coordinated by the UNESCO, of the ruins of Lumbini, the birthplace of Buddha in Nepal.
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The Indian Express, Dec 12, 2010
West Kameng, India -- Young Buddhist monks are not averse to owning a television set or a motorcycle and would even love going around wearing jeans and sweatshirts, unlike in the past.
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by YC. Dhardhowa, The Tibet Post International, 12 January 2011
Dharamshala, India -- All teachings of lord Buddha and Buddhist texts, which were not available in Tibetan, should be translated into Tibetan language, said His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tibet's political and spiritual leader while delivering the valedictory address at the four day Tengyur conference which held on Tuesday at the Buddhist holy city of Varanasi in India.
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by KATE TAYLOR, The New York Times, January 2, 2011
Timphu, Bhutan -- The Himalayan kingdom Bhutan has granted British art experts rare access to the country’s roughly 2,000 Buddhist temples and monasteries in an effort to preserve wall paintings from the 16th through 19th centuries, The Observer of London reported.
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The Telegraph, Dec 30, 2010
Walk for clean & green himalayas
Gangtok, Sikkim (India) -- The head of the Drukpa lineage of Tibetan Buddhism has announced his plan to set up an eco-school in Sikkim modelled on the one in Ladakh that he had helped build earlier.
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IANS, Dec 30, 2010
Bodh Gaya, India -- The 22-day commemoration of the 900th anniversary of the Karma Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism Thursday ended at the historic Kalachakra ground in the holy town of Bodh Gaya - the seat of Gautama Buddha's enlightenment - with an impressive ceremony and a special 'wishing prayer'.
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IANS, Dec 27, 2010
New Delhi, India -- The Karma Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism will commemorate 900 years of its lineage Thursday with a special prayer and ritualistic offering at the Mahabodhi Stupa in Bodh Gaya.
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By J.L. Devananda, ArticleBase.com, Dec 22, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Buddhism practiced in Sri Lanka, better known as Sinhala-Buddhism (or Mahavamsa-Buddhism) is different from the Theravada Buddhism practiced in other countries such as Thailand, Cambodia and so on.
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Phayul, December 24, 2010
Dharamsala, India -- The state government of Sikkim and its people on Wednesday jointly organised a long life prayer ceremony in honour of the exiled Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama's eight-day visit of the north-eastern Indian state.
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by Sutirtho Patranobis, Hindustan Times, December 21, 2010
Kandy, Sri Lanka -- India will gift a 16-feet high Buddha statue to Sri Lanka to be installed at the Sri Dalada Maligawa temple in the central Lankan town of Kandy. The Dalada Maligawa or the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic is among the holiest of Buddhist shrines in Sri Lanka, and the Buddha statue will be installed at the entrance of the International Buddhist Museum complex of the temple.
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PTI, Dec 18, 2010
Dharamsala, India -- Three Buddhist monks have fled from the Tibet Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan and recently taken refuge in the country, the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) claimed today.
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Lanka Buisness Online, 15 Dec, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka has further cut tariffs to places of worship in proposed new rates for 2010 to protect Buddhism, which was an obligation of the state, power ministry secretary M M Ferdinando said.
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By Surya Pratap Singh, ANI, Dec 15, 2010
Bodh Gaya, India -- Thousands of Buddhist monks assembled at the Bodhgaya Buddhist shrine on Wednesday to attend an eight-day prayer session for peace.
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by Tshering Tashi, Kuensel Online, Dec 15, 2010
Timphu, Bhutan -- “You are first a Buddhist and then a soldier,” Yangbi Lopen, a senior monk, reminded the Bhutanese army nine days before the two-day conflict.
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ANI, Dec 12, 2010
New DelhI, India -- The government of India has decided to extend visa on arrival facility to Buddhist pilgrims coming from five more ASEAN countries-Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar.
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By Surya Pratap Singh, ANI, Dec 12, 2010
Bodh Gaya, India -- Buddhist devotees have gathered at the ancient Mahabodhi Temple in Bihar's Gaya District to celebrate the annual festival of Kagyu Monlam Chenmo that marked the 900th birth anniversary of the first Karmapa Düsum Khyenpa.
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by YC. Dhardhowa, The Tibet Post International, 14 December 2010
Dharamshala, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama is on a three-day visit to the Tibetan settlement in Kalimpong, West Bengal State of India, where His Holiness inaugurated the newly built temple of Gaden Tharpa Choeling Monastery on 12 December.
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ANI, Dec 10, 2010
Leh, Ladakh (India) -- As a mark of respect to the huge loss of life and property caused by the massive cloudburst recently, Buddhists in Ladakh region have decided to celebrate 'Losar' festival, the Ladakhi New Year, on a low scale.
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The Assam Tribune, Dec 8, 2010
GANGTOK, Sikkim (India) -- For those living in Darjeeling, banner-led political processions are quite a common sight, but not a large contingent of Buddhist monks and nuns, who have embarked on a marathon march on foot to save the Himalayas from environmental damage. The local people have gathered around in support of the monks.
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by Dirgha Raj Prasai, Australia.to, 9 December 2010
Kathmandu, Nepal -- Gautam Buddha was born in Lumbini in the 6th century BC in mid Tarai, Nepal. Nepal has been a pious and holy land for all Buddhists as well as all kinds of religious men and women. Buddha has guided human society on the path of peace, non-violence and prosperous thinking. Gautam Buddha meditated at Sarnath-Banarash and acquired the Light of Knowledge (Mokchya) under the holy fig-tree at Gaya, which is now called Buddha Gaya.
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TibetCustom.com, December 5 2010
DHARAMSHALA, India -- The spiritual leader of the Russian Republic of Kalmykia described the cultural and religious ties with Tibetans a top priority, which he said will automatically give impetus to the political aspect of the Tibetan issue.
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ANI, Dec 3, 2010
Bodh Gaya, India -- Buddhist Monks from 54 countries gathered at the Mahabodhi Mahavihara temple located in Bihar's Bodhgaya district to offer prayers for world peace on the occasion of the Tripitaka festival.
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Business Wire India, December 2, 2010
Celebration opens in Delhi with traditional festivities and concludes with a grand finale in Bodhgaya on 30th December
New Delhi, India -- South Asia Buddhist Association (SABA) recently commemorated the 900 years of the Karma Kagyu Lineage at the holy monastery of Karmapa International Buddhist Institute in Qutub Institutional Area.
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Lanka Daily News, Dec 2, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The sixth National Conference on Buddhist Studies will be held at All Ceylon Women's Buddhist Congress Hall, No. 400, Bauddhaloka Mw., Colombo 7 on December 4,5.
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Daily Times, Nov 30, 2010
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi visited the Sri Dalada Maligawa temple on Monday and said Pakistan takes pride in sharing the Buddhist heritage with Sri Lanka.
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The Express Tribune, December 2, 2010
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A three-day international workshop on Gandharan Cultural Heritage started at Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU) on Wednesday. The event has been organised by the Taxila Institute of Asian Civilizations (TIAC) in collaboration with Centre for Documentation and Conservation, Aachen University, Heidelberg Academy of Science and Humanities, Germany.
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OneIndia, December 1, 2010
Dhramsala, India -- Buddhist spiritual leader Dalai Lama has begun with a three-day sermon in a spiritual retreat in Dharamsala.
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IANS, Nov 24, 2010
Shimla, India -- A prominent, centuries-old Buddhist monastery in Himachal Pradesh's Spiti Valley Wednesday appealed to the people to stop slaughtering animals and be more humane to other species, a spiritual head said.
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Hindustan Times, November 20, 2010
New Delhi, India -- “The relationship between India and Tibet is one of guru and chela,” said Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, at the first session of the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit 2010. “We learnt a lot from Indian scholars. And I always introduce myself to western audiences as a scholar of Indian thought… So we are chelas. But you must agree that we have been reliable chelas,” he added with a chuckle.
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by HEIDI VOGT, The Huffington Post, November 15, 2010
MES AYNAK, Afghanistan -- It was another day on the rocky hillside, as archaeologists and laborers dug out statues of Buddha and excavated a sprawling 2,600-year-old Buddhist monastery. A Chinese woman in slacks, carrying an umbrella against the Afghan sun, politely inquired about their progress.
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By Atula Bandara, Daily Mirror, 12 November 2010
Destruction of Archaeological sites
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The on-going wanton destruction of archaeological sites in Thanthirimale and Suriyathenna areas has caused much anxiety among the residents of the area and the Buddhist monks.
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Express News Service, 11 Nov 2010
HYDERABAD, India -- What do foreign secretary Nirupama Rao’s office, Rakhi Sawant’s bathroom and drawing rooms of many Indians have in common? The answer is presence of Buddhist elements. From the new-found interest in the religion, it looks like Indians are having a new tryst with Buddhism.
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By Janaka Alahapperuma, Onlanka News, Nov 9, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Mrs Shiranthi Rajapaksa participated the annual Katina ceremony organized by the Gangaramaya Temple, Hunupitiya, Colombo in the early hours on 08 November.
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CDN, 4 November 2010
Country’s religious regulatory authority expected to consider recognition before year’s end.
Timphu, Bhutan -- For the first time in Bhutan’s history, the Buddhist nation’s government seems ready to grant much-awaited official recognition and accompanying rights to a miniscule Christian population that has remained largely underground.
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By Pinaki Das, ANI, Nov 1, 2010
Tripura, India -- Hundreds of Buddhist devotees thronged the Venuban Bihar monastery to participate in the 33rd 'Kathin Chibor Dan' festival here over the weekend.
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by Matt Wade, The Age, October 30, 2010
Dharamsala, India -- BETWEEN a holy river and a dusty highway on Delhi's northern fringe is an unlikely slice of Tibet.
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ANI, Oct 27, 2010
New Delhi, India -- The Ministry of Tourism signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an agency of the World Bank, on Wednesday here to improve and promote the Buddhist tourism circuit in the country.
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Lanka Daily News, Oct 28, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Prime Minister DM Jayaratne said the government will take immediate measures to establish Buddhist temples in all countries. He stressed that all other religions in Sri Lanka were protected because of Venerable Buddhist monks.
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ANI, Oct 20, 2010
Bodh Gaya, India -- Buddhist monks released sky lanterns before Buddha's 80-feet-tall statue to demand renewable energy as a solution to the power crisis in the religious town of Bodhgaya in Bihar's Gaya District.
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Xinhua, Oct 18, 2010
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- As the natural beauty of Pakistan 's federal capital Islamabad is fading rapidly due to wide constructions and development activities, the government decided to preserve the archeological beauty of the city by approving a plan to protect the 2,400-year-old caves, local media reported on Monday.
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by Abhinav Malhotra, TNN, Oct 18, 2010
KANPUR, India -- On a day when the country was busy burning the effigies of demon king, the villagers of nondescript Pukhrayan village in Ramabai Nagar had gathered to worship Ravana and to embrace Buddhism on the occasion of Dussehra or Vijaya Dashmi on Sunday.
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PTI, Oct 16, 2010
Pune, India -- A unique tri-lingual dictionary project, aimed at helping the researchers studying the Buddhist literature and philosophy is underway at Pune University.
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By Saroj Pathirana, BBC News, Oct 15, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Child rights activists in Sri Lanka have criticised a plan by the prime minister to ordain 2,600 boys as Buddhist monks by next May.
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by Chaminda PERERA, Lanka Daily News, Oct 11, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday said that the country faces the biggest challenge of protecting cultural values and virtues in the face of western culture and attitudes seeping into society.
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Sify News, Oct 7, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Hundreds of Buddhist monks held a prayer meeting in Sri Lanka Thursday to call for the release of the country's ex-army chief and presidential candidate who was jailed last week.
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Daily Mirror, October 9, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- A World Council of Buddhism was formed recently in order to revitalize Buddhism both locally and internationally.
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By Akhilesh Bharati, ANI, Oct 7, 2010
Dharmsala, India -- A four-day teaching session on Tibetan Buddhism conducted by the Dalai Lama ended here on Thursday.
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by J.L. Devananda, Sri Lanka Guardian, Oct 5, 2010
Buddhism in Sri Lanka is monopolized by the Sinhalese and they call it Sinhala-Buddhism which is Theravada Buddhism (Tripitaka) mixed up with the Mahavamsa. Will the Sinhala-Buddhist Maha Sangha accept any Tamil Buddhist monks? Will the Tamils accept Mahavamsa as a part of Buddhism or Buddhist history knowing very well that it is a Sinhala-Buddhist mythology?
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ColomboPage News Desk, Oct 3, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Ven. Maduluwawe Sobhitha Thero, a leading Sinhala nationalist Buddhist monk activist, said today that he was ready to have rigorous imprisonment for life with hundred more monks if the government does not release the ex-Army Commander General (Retd.) Sarath Fonseka.
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ColomboPage News Desk, Oct 2, 2010
Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka -- President Mahinda Rajapaksa Friday met with the chief incumbents of the Buddhist temples in Polonnaruwa, Anuradhapura, and Trincomalee districts and sought the guidance from the Nayaka theras to find solutions to the problems common to the region.
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ColomboPage News Desk, Sep 29, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka Ministry of Buddhist Affairs has planned to release a directory of Buddhist monks, Prime Minister D.M. Jayarathna who is also the Minister of Buddhist Affairs revealed to media.
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by Vishal Arora, RNS, September 29, 2010
Timphu, Bhutan -- Officials in Buddhist-majority Bhutan have barred Hindu and Buddhist clergy from voting in upcoming elections in order to keep a clear distinction between religion and politics.
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By Asia News, Sept 28, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Politicians, human rights activists and religious leaders took part in a peaceful sit-in in front of the Myanmar Embassy in Colombo yesterday. They called on the world not to forget, highlighting the difficulties democracy encounters in Sri Lanka itself.
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Daily Mirror, 24 September 2010
New York, USA -- Addressing the UN session on Millennium Development Goals President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Wednesday vowed to follow the Buddhist principles which he said had laid the foundation to the stability of the Sri Lankan society.
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PTI, Sept 23, 2010
Kathmandu, Nepal -- Around 100 representatives of Buddhist organisations from South Asian countries, including India, will take part in an international conference on Buddhism here.
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Daily Mirror, 23 September 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday told the United Nations sessions on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that he hoped to develop Sri Lanka on a foundation of Buddhist values, presidential sources in New York told Daily Mirror.He spoke of how he overcame the challenges he faced when eradicating terrorism.
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ColomboPage News, Sep 20, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka. -- Sri Lanka Police produced a Buddhist monk before Matale magistrate on charges of attempted treasure hunting in a historical site.
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By ANN MARLOWE, Wall Stree Journal, Sept 17, 2010
Kabul, Afghanistan -- Even as once-secure parts of Afghanistan succumb to criminality and the insurgency, and the Afghan financial system hovers on the brink of failure, there are small signs of hope here.
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by Janaka Perera, The Buddhist Channel, Sept 17, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- At a meeting held at Dharma Vijaya Foundation, Colombo on Friday September 17, Buddhist societies and animal welfare activists decided to petition President Mahinda Rajapaksa urging him to enact the Animal Welfare Bill prepared by the Law Commission of Sri Lanka without delay. DVF President Olcott Gunasekera presided.
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By Rupam Jain Nair, AFP, Sept 13, 2010
NEW DELHI, India -- Indian academics have long dreamt of resurrecting Nalanda University, one of the world's oldest seats of learning which has lain in ruins for 800 years since being razed by foreign invaders.
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Sify News, Sept 13, 2010
Leh, Ladakh (India) -- Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama today visited the flood-ravaged areas in Leh and addressed the affected people telling them that they were not alone in their suffering as people in neighbouring Pakistan and China had also suffered similar natural disasters.
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PTI, Sep 12, 2010
Palampur, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, today inaugurated a new Buddhist institute near here and consecrated a temple and stupas in the sprawling campus on the lap of majestic Dhauladhar ranges.
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By Nirmala Kannangara, The SUnday Leader, Sep 12, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The controversial constitutional amendments which allow an incumbent president to contest any number of terms and to replace the 10 member Constitutional Council (CC) with a five member Constitutional Advisory Committee (CAC) have come under severe criticism by leading Buddhist monks in the country.
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ColomboPage News Desk, Sep 7, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Chief Incumbent of Dambulla Rajamaha Vihara Buddhist temple Ven. Inamaluwe Sumangala Thero has asked Sri Lanka Cricket to show cause within 14 days for violating the agreement between the temple authorities and Sri Lanka Cricket over the lease of land for Dambulla International Cricket Stadium.
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by Tarun Upadhyay, Hindustan Times, September 06, 2010
Leh, Ladakh (India) -- A blind teacher at a Buddhist school in Choglamsar town in Leh district was beaten up by Buddhist activists for allegedly carrying out conversion activity on the behest of Christian missionaries.
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by Jayampathy JAYASINGHE, Sunday Observer, Sept 5, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- A Dharmasasana International Buddhist Research Trust have been set up under the Public Trustee's Office to establish a training institute to propagate Buddhist activities, the Chief Incumbent of the Stockholm Buddhist Viharaya, Kiridigalle Dharmaratana Thera who spoke to the Sunday Observer, said.
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by Maike Winters, The Island, September 4, 2010
A visit to the Nilambe Buddhist Meditation Centre
Kandy, Sri Lanka -- It takes more than an hour by bus from Kandy, a very rocky tuktuk ride up a mountain and exposure to blood-thirsty leeches to get to the Meditation Centre.
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Bernama, August 31, 2010
LEH, Ladakh (India) -- It was total self-sacrifice by several Malaysians who scaled the rugged Himalayan mountains to bring cheer to traumatised families and children in the remote Ladakh area, distressed by a recent cloudburst.
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Tibet Custom, August 25 2010
Bylakuppe, India -- After inaugurating two newly built prayer halls of the Tibetan Secondary School at Sera Jey Monastery, Kalon Tripa Prof Samdong Rinpoche said "the school must include courses on Buddhist treatises in its curriculum".
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ANI, Aug 22, 2010
Manali, India -- Hundreds of Tibetan Buddhist monks and devotees participated in a religious congregation addressed by Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama here on Sunday.
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Sify News, Aug 21, 2010
Dalai Lama celebrates birthday with supporters
Lahaul, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama said in Himachal Pradesh's Lahaul district on Friday, there is no gender bias in Buddhism and nothing prevents a woman from becoming his successor.
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The Sunday Times, Aug 22, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The first copies of the two volumes of the books on the Dalada Maligawa – The Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, written by the late Professor Anuradha Seneviratna were presented to President Mahinda Rajapaksa last week by Chairman of Vijitha Yapa Publications Vijitha Yapa.
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Reuters, Aug 17, 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Archaeologists in Afghanistan, where Taliban Islamists are fighting the Western-backed government, have uncovered Buddhist-era remains in an area south of Kabul, an official said today.
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By Beatrice Le Bohec, AFP, Aug 16, 2010
LEH, India -- Winters come harsh and early in India's Himalayan region of Ladakh, where the waning summer spells more hardship for thousands left homeless by devastating flash floods.
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Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corp, 14 August 2010 21:00
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Prime Minister D.M.Jayaratne says the government has arranged a wider programme to propagate Buddhism throughout the world from Sri Lanka in the same manner Buddhism was propagated by India in the history.
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by Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS, Aug 11, 2010
Leh, Ladakh (India) -- The Buddha stood by the Druk White Lotus School, an architectural milestone just 15 km from Leh, when a cloudburst caused devastation in the cold desert region of Jammu and Kashmir last week. While it did suffer damage, the school is already looking forward to being 'back on its feet'.
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By Prem Thakur, ANI, Aug 10, 2010
Himachal Pradesh, India -- Sermons on Buddhist thoughts delivered by Rinpoche Lobsang Jamphel Jampa Gyatso at the Dagpo Shedrupling Monastery in the scenic Kullu valley are popular among national and international tourists here in Himachal Pradesh.
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Channel News Asia, 4 August 2010
New Delhi, India -- Minister for Foreign Affairs George Yeo who is in New Delhi, has said that Singaporeans, especially those in the Buddhist community are likely to raise S$5-10 million towards the Nalanda University.
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Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corp, 3 August 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- A programme to develop Buddhist temples in rural areas will be implemented in line with the 2600th Sambuddha Jayanthi ceremony to be held next year.
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Sify News, Aug 2, 2010
Mumbai, India -- Bombay High Court on Monday summoned the Deputy Superintendent of Police (CID) who is probing the death of a Buddhist monk which led to riot in suburban Govandi in January 2008.
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by Andrew Pereira, TNN, Aug 2, 2010
PANAJI, India -- Spiritual soul-searching Japanese Buddhists may soon join the mosaic of colours, cultures and languages that dress up the streets of coastal Goa from the 2011-12 tourism season onwards.
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NTDTV.com, Jul 28, 2010
Ladakh, India -- The Dalai Lama inaugurated a 106-foot-tall Buddha statue during his nine-day visit to the Himalayan region of Ladakh. The statue of Buddha Maitreya is at a monastery in India's Jammu and Kashmir State.
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The Bangkok Post, July 26, 2010
Islamabad, Pakistan -- Pakistan is seeking to highlight its Buddhist heritage as part of a broader effort to attract more visitors from Thailand and the Asean countries.
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By Surya Pratap Singh, ANI, July 24, 2010
Bodh Gaya, India -- A unique mound-like structure called 'Stupa' made of empty cartridges from the Sri Lankan civil war has turned a major draw for tourists in Bodhgaya.
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By Athula Bandara, Daily Mirror, 26 July 2010
Bodh Gaya, India -- Around 300 Buddhist monks from several countries yesterday participated in chanting the Chula Pagnasaka Suthra of the Majjima Nikaya of Tripitaka at the Sri Maha Bodhi at Anuradhapura.
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Tibet Custom, July 26 2010
Nubra, Ladakh (India) -- With the arrival of His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the remote Buddhist hamlet at Yarma Gonbo Monastery located about 65 km from Samtenling Monastery in Ladakh's Nubra Valley on last Friday, the long-held wishes of the people living in the region to meet their spiritual leader were finally fulfilled.
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PTI, July 20, 2010
Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh (India) -- Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will visit forward areas of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir bordering Tibet this week for delivering religious discourses.
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By Fazal Khaliq, The Express Tribune, July 21, 2010
SWAT, Pakistan -- If Swat Valley is a piece of paradise on earth, it is also the cradle of ancient civilisations, including Buddhist. It is the place which was described as the “valley of hanging chains” by Chinese chroniclers Huain Tsang and Fa-Hian in the fifth and sixth centuries.
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By Kalsang Rinchen, Phayul, July 18, 2010
Dharamsala, India -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama assured that his middle way approach for Tibet will bear result one day saying the movement will continue even after his passing away.
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Sri Lanka Guardian, July 18, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- According to news published in Neruppu.com, a Buddhist shrine has been erected at Periya Panndi Virichchan village, about two kilometres away from the Madhu Catholic shrine in the Madhu Assistant Government Agent’s division.
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by ARCHIS MOHAN, The Telegraph (India), July 8, 2010
New Delhi, India -- Nalanda University will be revived but the Dalai Lama will have no association with the project to resurrect the ancient seat of Buddhist learning, an omission aimed at respecting China’s sensibilities.
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UCANews, June 29, 2010
Jaffna, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lankan Buddhist monks have made a peace pilgrimage to the nation’s war-scarred North.
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Sify, June 30, 2010
Leh, Ladakh (India) -- A three-day long Buddhist-Muslim Dialogue and seminar 'Addressing Violence: Religious Resources for Conflict Resolution 2010', is being held at Leh.
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IANS, Jun 28, 2010
Patna, India -- The Bihar government will approach Sri Lanka for another sapling of the Bodhi tree after the first one planted by Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama here wilted due to negligence, triggering anger in the Buddhist community.
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ISRIA, June 28, 2010
Sanchi, India -- An International Buddhist University will be established in Sanchi, India in the near future in accordance with a request made by Sri Lanka.
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The Himalayan Times, June 28, 2010
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Targeting Buddhist Tourism, Himalayan Expedition in January 2011 is going to launch Buddhist Circuit involving primary pilgrimage places associated with the life and teachings of Lord Buddha. Lumbini, Sarnath, Bodhgaya and Kushinagar are the primary pilgrimage places along with numerous other sites where Buddha and the saints travelled will be part of the itinerary, S K Singh of Jatak Travels India said.
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ANI, June 27, 2010
Gangtok, Sikkim (India) -- Buddhist monks in Gangtok started a weeklong prayer session for world peace from Sunday.
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By Ananda Weerasuriya, Daily Mirror, 24 June 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- A Chinese Buddhist nun studying at the Sri Jayewardenapura University has been robbed of valuables to the value of around Rs.350, 000, Dehiwala police said.
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The Sunday Leader, June 24, 2010
Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka -- The historical town of Anuradhapura and the nearby mountain peak Mihintale, is set to receive some two million devotees tomorrow (25th) , in a peaceful commemoration of the day Arahat Mahinda brought the simple philosophy of Buddhism to Sri Lanka.
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Express India, Jun 21, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Colombo Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka plan to learn Tamil language to create greater harmony and heal the decades old animosity between the majority Sinhalas and the minority Hindu community in the country.
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Sify News, June 21, 2010
Himachal Pradesh, India -- Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal Monday said the government would extend all help during a Buddhist ceremony that will be attended by the Tibetan spiritual guru the Dalai Lama in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur district in 2013.
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by Kumod Verma, TNN, Jun 21, 2010
PATNA, India -- Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has decided to reduce fares of the package tour by Buddhist Circuit special train as a discount offer to passengers, including foreign tourists.
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Sunday Observer, June 20, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- With the spiritual fragrance of the Thrice Blessed Day still fresh in their hearts and minds, Buddhists in our country are now preparing to usher in yet another day of religious significance, unique to our Motherland.
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by Harita Shah, Daily Buzz, June 19, 2010
Secunderabad, India -- The government-supported Ananda Buddha Vihara, a noted Buddhist centre in Secunderabad, is caught in a murky feud between the chief monk and the founder trustees that is paralysing Vihara activities.
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by JaldiNaukri.in (Blog), Jun 16, 2010
Ladakh, India -- The Central Institute of Buddhist Studies came into being in 1959. At it’s inception it was known as the School of Buddhist philosophy.
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TibetNet, June 7, 2010
Kashmir, India -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama this morning presided over the 15th founding anniversary of the Himalayan Buddhist Cultural School in Gulabgarh, located 62 km from Kishtwar district in Jammu and Kashmir.
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by Indi Samarajiva, The Sunday Leader, June 6, 2010
Jaffna, Sri Lanka -- Stupa built by the 55th Army Division in Jaffna town This year, the Sri Lankan military organised Buddhist celebrations in traditionally Tamil/Hindu areas of the country, including Jaffna.
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The Sunday Times, June 6, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Buddhist Ladies’ College (BLC) one of the premier government approved schools in Colombo, commemorates its 56th year marking Founder’s Day, while focusing on the educational needs of the new generation.
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by Shabir Dar, Rising Kashmir, June 5, 2010
Praises Abdullahs for State’s communal harmony
Jammu, India -- The Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, Dalai Lama, who arrived on the first ever two-day visit to Kishtwar on Saturday, prayed for peace and prosperity of Jammu and Kashmir.
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ANI, June 1, 2010
Dharamsala, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, is giving introductory lessons on Buddhism to young Tibetans in Dharamsala.
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Indo-Asian News Service, June 3, 2010
Dharamsala, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will visit the mountainous district of Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir this week to attend religious functions and teach, an aide said today.
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by Priyanka KURUGALA, Lanka Daily News, May 29, 2010
Largest Information Centre for Buddhists
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Buddhism has been in existence for too many centuries. Although there are many Buddhists all over the world, not many practice the religion. Most of them call themselves as Buddhists, but they do not follow the teachings of the Buddha.
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by Dr. Tshokey Dorji, Kuensel Online, May 31, 2010
Lord Buddha’s parinirvana celebrated in Colombo
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Doechen Nga Zom, Lord Buddha’s parinirvana is also celebrated as Vesak in Sri Lanka, a Theravada Buddhist country like Myanmar, Thailand and Cambodia.
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By Phurbu Thinley, Phayul, May 25, 2010
Dharamsala, India -- A daily 20-minute “Buddhist Spiritual Program” named “Noble Wisdom” will be telecast on daily basis on the Sadhana TV Channel from this week onwards, a Delhi-based Buddhist society has announced.
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DH News Service, May 25, 2010
New Delhi, India -- With the communist government in Beijing cautiously easing restrictions on religion and promoting Buddhism; India has built a Buddhist shrine at Luoyang in Henan province of China.
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Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corp, 25 May 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Buddhists in the country are getting ready to celebrate the Vesak festival in grand scale this year. Vesak celebrations will be held in each Buddhist temple and Buddhist centres. All the streets and households have been decorated with Vesak lanterns and illuminations.
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By D. C. Ranatunga, The Sunday Times, May 23, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- He was just seven years old when he was ordained. He hails from Moderawana, a backyard village off Embilipitiya. In his mid-twenties he decided to be rather adventurous and come to Wellawa, a rural area just past Polgahawela and set up a small temple. He was always keen to be of service to the community.
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by Priyanka KURUGALA, Lanka Daily News, May 22, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Lives of more than 40,000 monks were lost to the country duty to indoctrination by revolutionary parties. Instead of the Buddhist teaching, those monks followed political agendas, Buddhist Cultural Center Director Ven Kirama Wimalajothi Thera said.
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by Steve Herman, VOA News, May 19, 2010
Timphu, Bhutan -- During my three-and-a-half year stint in South Asia, I have made five trips to the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan.
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Sunday Observer, May 16, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Of all things Sri Lanka has bestowed on the world the Buddhist flag, which celebrated its 125th anniversary on April 28, is probably the most important. The 125th anniversary is special for several reasons. The Buddhist flag was first hoisted on - April 28, 1885 - an Adhi Vesak poya day, after a long struggle to establish Buddhists religious rights.
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The Daily Mirror, 12 May 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The special lecture at the Chennai Wesak festival jointly organised by the Sri Lanka Maha Bodhi Society and the Sri Lanka Deputy High Commissioner’s office of South India will be delivered by professor Sunil Ariyaratne on the topic ‘Tamil Buddhist’ on May 30 afternoon at the Chennai Maha Bodhi Centre.
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ANI, May 7, 2010
Shimla, India -- Hundreds of Tibetan Buddhists monks and other Tibetan exiles took part in the ten-day annual prayers at the Dorjee Dak Monastery located in Pnathagati near Shimla.
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Tibet Custom, May 8 2010
Dharamshala, India -- The Diaspora Tibetan communities based in different parts of the world on Monday (4 May) conducted special prayer sessions to observe the customary third week of the death of those people since the deadly earthquake that struck Tibet's Kyigudo region on April 14.
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IANS., 6 May 2010
NEW DELHI, India -- An Indian-style Buddhist temple, which was inspired by the Sanchi Stupa and took five years to build at a cost of $4 million, will be dedicated to the Chinese people by President Pratibha Devisingh Patil during her visit there next month.
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by Tenzin Namgyel, Kuensel Online, 9 May, 2010
Kathmandu, Nepal -- She appears sheepish and timid as she makes her way up to the concrete roof of the giant four-storied assembly hall from the courtyard.
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By K.S.Fernando, Daily Mirror, May 5, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Chief Incumbent of Panadura Rankoth Vihara historic temple and Senior Lecturer of the Kelaniya University Ven. Professor Kahapalage Sugatharathana Thera said the Buddhists today celebrated the 125th anniversary of the Buddhist flag but the National Flag and the Buddhist flag have not received the pride of place.
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by Steven Sieden, The Examiner, May 2, 2010
Dharmsala, India -- On April 30, H.H. the Dalai Lama along with other Tibetan government-in-exile officials and Buddhist spiritual leaders conducted a ceremony to commemorate the anniversary of his arrival in Dharmsala, India after fleeing from Tibet.
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By Tenzin Namgyel, Kuensel Online, May 2, 2010
Researcher makes progress in determining Guru Rinpoche’s birthplace
Swat, Pakistan -- The timing was not intended but, even as Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y Thinley and the Pakistani prime minister, Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, discuss promoting friendship through exploring the birthplace of Guru Padmasambhava in Swat province, Pakistan, to draw Buddhist pilgrims, a study claims that two lakes were identified as lake Dhanakosha, the birth place of Guru Rinpoche.
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ANI, April 27, 2010
Dharamsala, India -- Scores of Tibetans living-in-exile at Dharamsala and other settlements in Himachal Pradesh, gathered at the Tsuglagkhang Buddhist temple on Tuesday to offer special prayers for the long life of their spiritual leader Dalai Lama.
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ANI, April 26, 2010
Dharamsala, India -- The Tibetan Women's Association launched an art campaign in Dharamsala to mark the birthday of the 11th Panchen Lama.
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by Pranava K Chaudhary, TNN, Apr 24, 2010
PATNA, India -- Holy relics of Lord Buddha from Japan, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Dharamsala (HP) would be placed at the upcoming `Buddha Smriti Park’ here next month.
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The Hindu, April 18, 2010
Nagpur, India -- Union Minister for Urban Development S. Jaipal Reddy on Saturday said Lord Buddha was the greatest social and intellectual liberator of mankind.
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CNN, April 17, 2010
Dharmasala, India -- The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Buddhist leader long exiled from China, is seeking to visit the Tibetan region rocked by a deadly earthquake this week.
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By Jo Jolly, BBC News, April 14, 2010
Kathmandu, Nepal -- It is early in the morning at the Amitabha Drukpa Nunnery on a hillside just outside Kathmandu and hundreds of devotees are walking clockwise around a golden statue of Buddha.
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AFP, April 14, 2010
DHARAMSHALA, India -- The Dalai Lama offered his condolences to victims of a devastating earthquake which hit a remote northwestern area of China on Wednesday, killing at least 400 people.
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IANS, April 12, 2010
Dharamsala, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has expressed sorrow over the death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski in an air crash in Russia last week. Kaczynski was an admirer of the Dalai Lama and had met him a number of times.
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by Vijay Kumar, GroundReport.com, April 7, 2010
Literary figure Mohammed Yousf Taing said to know the location of the copper plaques containing the manuscripts on the proceedings of the International Buddhist Council held in Srinagar, 2000 years ago
Jammu, India -- Mohammed Yousf Taing, a name in the literary horizon of Jammu and Kashmir, today unfolded a mysterious aspect of the Kashmir history, related to the 4th Buddhist Council, held somewhere near Harwan in the city of Srinagar, during the rein of King Kanshika.
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By Charles Haviland, BBC News, April 8, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lankan police have arrested 12 Buddhist monks who were demonstrating against the detention of the opposition politician, Gen Sarath Fonseka.
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Times of India, Apr 7, 2010
GANDHINAGAR, India -- The recent Dalai Lama visit has given a new impetus to Gujarat branding itself as the latest Buddhist pilgrimage destination. The state government has not only allocated funds for development of the sites associated with Buddhism but is also preparing a comprehensive plan for development of these sites.
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By Nirmala Kannangara, The Sunday Leader, Apr 4, 2010
Dambulla, Sri Lanka -- As intra-party fighting among candidates of the governing alliance intensified with days to go for the general election, senior Minister Janaka Bandara Tennakoon and his son are being accused of vandalising a Buddha statue.
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Sify News, Apr 5, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's influential Buddhist clergy vowed on Monday to launch a wave of anti-government protests after police arrested a dozen monks who demanded the release of the jailed former army chief.
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Times of India, Apr 7, 2010
GANDHINAGAR, India -- The recent Dalai Lama visit has given a new impetus to Gujarat branding itself as the latest Buddhist pilgrimage destination. The state government has not only allocated funds for development of the sites associated with Buddhism but is also preparing a comprehensive plan for development of these sites.
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The Star, April 3, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Nothing prepared us for the electrifying atmosphere of the Navam Perahera Buddhist festival. Some say it is Sri Lanka’s answer to Brazil’s Mardi Gras — minus the raunchiness.
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Sify News, Mar 30, 2010
Lahore, Pakistan -- Tourism in Pakistan, affected by Islamist violence since 9/11, is expected to get a boost with the promotion of the major Buddhist heritage site that cradled the first century Gandhara civilisation.
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By Jigmet Wangchuk, ANI, Mar 30, 2010
Ladakh, India -- Lukhil Monastery in Ladakh region has continued to maintain its ancient practices of Buddhist culture to this date.
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SAMAA, 26 Mar 2010
SWAT, Pakistan -- A 9-member delegation of Buddhist preachers from Thailand have visited historical Buddhists sites in Swat, first time after the restoration of peace in the war affected area.
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by Tilak PUSHPAKUMARA SENANAYAKE, Lanka Daily News, Mac 27, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Everyone should appreciate the services rendered by Pirivenas for the uplift of Buddhist Education in this country, said the Most Ven. Galagama Attadassi Anunayaka Thera of the Asgiriya Chapter when he opened a new Budu Medura at the Asgiriya Maha Viharaya Pirivena yesterday.
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by Bhikkhu K. Tanchangya, The Buddhist Channel, Mac 28, 2010
Kandy, Sri Lanka -- An article titled “Akon and Buddhism in Sri Lanka” under a pseudo name should not have been published in the Buddhistchannel, to say the least. Not only that the write-up is not coherent at all with the actual reasons why the Sri Lankan government was forced to deny a visa to someone called “Akon” but also the title itself is very outrageous.
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By Kalana Senaratne, The Sunday Leader, Mac 28, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Could it be that the sight of the Buddha statue was a complete turn-off to those who were utterly aroused by the dancing girls, the ‘sexy chicks’, seen in the music video Sexy Bitch, by David Gruetta, which featured Akon? If not, can such a scene, which in this particular video lasted for not more than two seconds, truly give rise to the kind of intolerance in a Buddhist; which was shown when stones were hurled at the MBC office?
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by tis-a-small-world, www.groundviews.org, March 27, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Government on Tuesday (March 23rd) announced its decision to deny an entry visa to singer Akon who was scheduled to perform next month in Colombo with co-singers, J-Sean and Kelly.
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Sify News, March 24, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka has denied visa to US hip-hop singer Akon in the wake of protest over his controversial video album featuring scantily-clam women dancing around a statue of Lord Buddha.
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Sify News, Mar 22, 2010
Chhattisgarh, India -- Chhattisgarh is lobbying to get world heritage status for the Buddhist site Sirpur, Tourism and Culture Minister Brijmohan Agrawal said Monday.
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by Sarthak Gupta, ANI, Mac 21, 2010
Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir (India) -- Lamayuru Monastery in Ladakh, which is believed to be the oldest in the region, provides an insight into Buddhist culture through its ancient paintings and murals.
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ANI, March 15, 2010
Gangtok, Sikkim (India) -- Sikkim's Handicrafts and Handloom Department is imparting training to the unemployed youth in an attempt to promote and preserve ethnic Buddhist arts and crafts.
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By J.L. Devananda, Sri Lanka Guardian, March 10, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Buddhism practiced in Sri Lanka, better known as Sinhala-Buddhism (or Mahavamsa-Buddhism) is different from the Theravada Buddhism practiced in other countries such as Thailand, Cambodia and so on.
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By Kanchana Kumara, Daily Mirror, 10 March 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Director General of the Pelpola Vipassai Foundation, Ven. Pelpola Vipassai Thera said the Buddhist places of worship and the historic monuments of religious and cultural importance would have perished if not for the protection provided to them by the Maha Sangha.
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by Kamal Siriwardhana and Susantha Fonseka, Lanka Daily News, March 3, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Member of the Parbatya Bikkhu Sanga, Bangladesh (Sri Lanka Branch) and student Peradeniya University student Dammapala Thera said Buddhists in the Chittagong Tracts of Bangladesh are facing great injustice for many years and have been targets of violence once again since February 19.
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By Phurbu Thinley, Phayul, February 27, 2010
Dharamsala, India -- Hundreds and hundreds of Tibetans and well-wishers holding traditional ceremonial scarves and burning incense welcomed His Holiness the Dalai Lama as he returned to his exile hometown here this morning, following a high-profile visit to United States.
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PTI, February 27, 2010
Mumbai, India -- A Buddhist scholar and author has said the disputed land in Ayodhya should be converted into a symbol of religious harmony by constructing a temple, mosque and a Buddha vihara, and criticised the BJP for its "politically motivated" stand on the issue.
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IANS, February 22, 2010
Patna, India -- More than 2,000 Buddhist monks from across the country will participate in a march in the Bihar capital to demand Buddhist control over Bodh Gaya’s 1,500-year-old Mahabodhi temple, the religion’s holiest shrine.
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AFP, Feb 20, 2010
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's top Buddhist monks called off a special gathering this week because of government pressure, a spokesman said Friday, while the opposition said bomb threats had been involved.
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Economic Times, 19 Feb 2010
PATNA, India -- Japan is keen to invest and develop the Buddhist tourism circuit in Bihar, an official in the chief minister's office said here Friday.
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Sunday Times, Feb 14, 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Mahanayakes of the Asgiriya and Malwatta chapters and Amarapura and Ramanna Nikayas have asked members of the Buddhist clergy to assemble at the historic Mahamaluwa of the Sri Dalada Maligawa for a special convention to be held on Thursday February 18 where a resolution pertaining to the present political developments in the country will be passed.
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By Tim Farr, Ottawa Citizen, February 13, 2010
Mustang, Nepal -- Late September found us in Lo-Manthang, the capital of Mustang. The former ancient Kingdom of Lo, Mustang is now part of Nepal, in the northwest corner bordering Tibet. It's in the rain shadow of the Himalaya, high on the Tibetan plateau. It's just 80 kilometres long, 24 kilometres across at its widest part and at an elevation of higher than 2,500 metres.
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by Aditi Tandon, Tribune News Service, February 10, 2010
New Delhi, India -- Over 2,550 years after Buddha attained ‘parinirvana’, India is debating whether to give up control over His relics --- housed in museums under the Ministry of Culture -— and move them into the community’s hands.
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Outlook India, Feb 6, 2010
Vadodara, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama today described himself as a "son of India" whose moral duty was to "hand over" ageless treasures of Buddhism, which are kept in Tibet, to India.
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by Sarah Harlan, WFIE, Feb 7, 2010
BODH GAYA, INDIA -- Around 500 Buddhist monks marched for world peace from the holy city of Bodh Gaya in eastern India Saturday.
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Express News Service, Feb 9, 2010
BHUBANESWAR, India -- Tourism Minister Debi Prasad Mishra has proposed to the Centre to organise an international Buddhist conclave in Orissa.
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By Tashi Tenzin, Kuensel Online, 9 February, 2010
Timphu, Bhutan -- The government of India yesterday donated more than 100 books to the national library in Thimphu.
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PTI, Feb 4, 2010
New Delhi, India -- Railways have slashed the ticket rates of the Buddhist Circuit Special Train by more than half under a special discount scheme to woo more travellers.
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ANI, February 4, 2010
Bodh Gaya, India -- Buddhists monks from across the country converged at Bodh Gaya to participate in a religious procession on Wednesday.
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by Anugrah Kumar, Compass Direct News, February 2, 2010
THIMPHU, Bhutan -- Bars, pubs and discos have become legal in Bhutan - a cause of concern for the older generation - but construction of worship buildings other than Buddhist or Hindu temples is still prohibited.
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ANI, January 27, 2010
Dharamsala, India -- An 18-member Burmese monks' delegation, which arrived here on a three-day visit, shared their plight with Tibetan exiles here on Tuesday.
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Express News Service, Jan 25, 2010
Ahmedabad, India -- Cose to 11,000 people, including those from the Koli and Kshatriya communities as well as Christian families, embraced Buddhism at a function in Saijpur Bogha here on Sunday.
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ANI, January 23, 2010
Shimla, India -- Buddhists have been demanding the legal possession of a monastery in Rampur town of Shimla district from the Himachal Pradesh Public Works Department (PWD).
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by Sharique N Siddiquie, Zee News, January 16, 2010
Vadodara, India -- Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated International Buddhist Convention in Vadodara. The three-day seminar will focus on Buddhist heritage in Gujarat.
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Express News Service, Jan 18, 2010
Vadodara, India -- The three-day international seminar on Buddhist Heritage concluded on Sunday with Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister P K Dhumal noting that Buddhism cannot be confined to any geographical limits.
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TNN, 13 January 2010
VADODARA, India -- The forthcoming international seminar on Buddhist heritage has brought with it new found interest among various groups in mortal remains of Lord Buddha which have been in the possession of MS University (MSU).
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KalingaTimes, Jan 15, 2010
Bhubaneswar, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama addressed the people of Bhubaneswar on Thursday. The function was organised by the Utkal University of Culture in association with Hotel & Restaurant Association of Odisha.
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Indian Express, Jan 12, 2010
Gujarat, India -- As M S University gears up for a three-day international seminar on Buddhist Heritage starting on Friday, the state Tourism Department is also working towards utilising the platform to create a corridor for Buddhist tourism here.
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IANS, Jan 14, 2010
Bodh Gaya, India -- A group of Buddhist monks Thursday ended their hunger strike for control over Bodh Gaya’s 1,500-year-old Mahabodhi temple.
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PTI, January 9, 2010
Monks demand total Buddhist control over management of the Mahabodhi temple
Bodh Gaya, India -- Three monks on an indefinite fast here since January one to press for ensuring total Buddhist control over management of the Mahabodhi temple, were hospitalised following deterioration in their condition yesterday even as Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama is holding discourses at a week-long festival here.
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IANS, January 10, 2010
Bhubaneswar, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will be visiting Orissa Monday to inaugurate a newly-constructed Buddhist monastery in Gajapati district, an official said Sunday.
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By Andrew Buncombe, NZ Hearld, Jan 9, 2010
DELHI, India -- Richard Gere the Hollywood actor who has spurned red meat for the past 30 years, has thrown his support behind a plan to transform the site of Buddha's enlightenment into a vegetarian zone to spread the message of peace.
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by Abdul Qadir, TNN, 7 January 2010
GAYA, India -- Hollywood actor Richard Gere braved the morning chill on Wednesday listen to the special sermon of the Tibetan temporal and spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama at the Kalchakra Maidan here.
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TibetCustom.com, January 6 2010
Dharamshala, India -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama prayed for world peace at Bodh Gaya on Tuesday, where more than 50,000 devotees from all across the world have gathered to hear spiritual discourses by His Holiness.
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PTI, Jan 6, 2009
New Delhi, India -- The Supreme Court today declined to entertain a petition questioning a provision in the legislation that extends the benefits of reservation to Dalits converted to Buddhism.
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by Sarthak Gupta, Top News, Jan 4, 2010
New Delhi, India -- In a quiet corner of the city, scholars from across Asia will come together to reclaim our Buddhist legacy.
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ANI, Jan 4, 2009
Bodhgaya, India -- A huge crowd that had gathered to witness the breathtaking performance got deeply involved in the play.
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by BIJENDER SHARMA, Punjab News, January 4, 2010
BODH GAYA, India -- The Tibetan Spritual Leader His Holiness will give teachings at Bodh Gaya, India, from 5 – 8 January.
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IANS, January 2, 2010
Bodh Gaya Patna, (India) -- A group of Buddhist monks are on a hunger strike to demand control over Bodh Gaya’s 1,500-year-old Mahabodhi temple, days after Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan backed the move and sought the amendment of an act relating to the shrine.
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Sakaal Times, December 28, 2009
PUNE, India -- The study of Buddhist texts is incomplete without proper understanding of the traditions, said Prof Geshe N Samten, vice chancellor, Central University of Tibetan Studies, Sarnath, at a recent international seminar on Buddhist texts and traditions at the University of Pune (UoP) as part of its golden jubilee year celebrations.
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IANS, December 29, 2009
Bodh Gaya Patna (India) -- Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan has come out in support of Buddhist monks who are demanding control over the Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya, the religion’s holiest shrine.
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By K.S. Fernando, The Daily Mirror, Dec29, 2009
Panadura, India -- The Anunayake Thera of the Sri Lanka Amarapura Nikaya, Chief Incumbent of the Bellanwila Rajamaha Viharaya and Lecturer of the Sri Jayewardenapura University, Ven. Dr. Bellanwila Wimalarathana Thera said it was a matter of serious concern that many Buddhist monks were engaged in politics against the wishes of the laymen.
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By Christopher Allbritton, Time Magazine, Dec. 25, 2009
Islamabad, Pakistan -- In the mountains and valleys of Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province, palace ruins and crumbling Buddhist monasteries dot the hills above war-torn locations such as Mingora, Peshawar and the Swat Valley.
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TNN, December 22, 2009
MYSORE, India -- Fifteen years after it was planned, the Mysore City Corporation is all set to inaugurate the Buddha Stupa. Ever since the works were completed four years ago, the stupa has been awaiting installation in Chamarajpuram adjacent to Ambedkar junction (Ballal Circle). The MCC has spent Rs 25 lakh.
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The telegraph, India, Dec 19, 2009
New Delhi, India -- The National Commission for Minorities has written to the Centre and the Bihar government to put Buddhists in sole charge of managing the Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya, where the Buddha attained enlightenment 2,500 years ago.
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The Daily Mirror, Dec 22, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka is touted as being a great Buddhist nation. Driving around Sri Lanka the only markers surpassing the sites of all the temples and dagobas are the posters of the president. Every “patriot” sees the need to prove their credentials by showing that they are the only true Sinhala Buddhists.
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TNN, December 22, 2009
VADODARA, India -- M S University and the city will receive a special guest on its campus in January. His holiness 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet has confirmed his presence at the International Conference on Buddhist Heritage' in Gujarat. Accompanying him will be exiled Tibetan prime minister Samdhong Rinpoche.
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Express News Service, Dec 18, 2009
Lucknow, India -- The Buddhist monasteries across the world may soon start teaching modern science. This was stated by Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama in Lucknow on Thursday.
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ThaiIndian, December 15th, 2009
Saidpur, India -- Mahabodhi Society, the apex body of Buddhists in India with the aid of a couple of like-minded voluntary organisations has set up a tailoring centre and also a free medical clinic for the poor people at Saidpur, a Maoist infested village in Gaya district.
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PTI, Dec 14, 2009
Mumbai, India -- A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Bombay High Court demanding separate crematoriums in the city for followers of Buddhist religion.
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By Azera Rahman, IANS, December 13, 2009
New Delhi, India -- Coming up in Bodh Gaya in Bihar is a Buddhist monastery that will be run by Mongolia, the land of legendary warrior Genghis Khan. The envoy of the Central Asian country, Voroshilov Enkhbold, says it will be completed by next year.
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By Kalsang Rinchen, Phayul, December 11, 2009
Kathmandu, Nepal -- The Nepal Buddhist Federation has sharply reacted to news reports in Nepal's media alleging Buddhist monasteries in Nepal of engaging in "anti China activities" and "possessing arms".
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By L.B. Senaratne, Daily Mirror, December 11, 2009
Kandy, Sri Lanka -- In contravention of regulations laid down by the Buddhist Affairs Department and with approval given by the Kandy Buddhist Deputy Commissioner's Office, funds allocated for a development project has been utilized for some other purpose, official sources said yesterday.
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ColomboPage News Desk, Dec 6, 2009
Galaha, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa today expressed his appreciation to the Buddhist monks for the guidance and blessings he received from the Maha Sanga during the liberation of the country from terrorism.
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Xinhua, Nov 29, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Making a record in Sri Lanka's election history, Buddhist monk Venerable Battaramulle Seelaratana Thera will run for the president in the polls scheduled to be held next January, party officials said on Saturday.
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Sify News, Nov 30, 2009
Bodh gaya, India -- Buddhist monks want control over the management of the Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya, one of Buddhism's holiest shrines. They have decided to intensify their agitation as the Bihar government is not paying heed to their demands.
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By Sajjad Tarakzai, AFP, Nov 22, 2009
TAXILA, Pakistan -- Archaeologists warn that the Taliban are destroying Pakistan's ancient Gandhara heritage and rich Buddhist legacy as pilgrimage and foreign research dries up in the country's northwest.
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Bernama, Nov 24, 2009
NEW DELHI, India -- A Buddhist monk who opened the emergency exit of an airplane just before take off because he wanted some fresh air forced the plane to delay its flight for almost seven hours at Kolkata airport yesterday morning.
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By Tenzin Namgyel, Kuensel Online, Nov 24, 2009
Dzongsar Khentse Rinpoche completed a 4-year series of lessons on November 22
Thimphu, Bhutan -- His Eminence Dzongsar Jamyang Khentse Rinpoche gave teachings in English on ‘wisdom’ to about 400 Bhutanese devotees in Thimphu from November 20-22.
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PTI, November 24, 2009
Kathmandu, Nepal -- Despite appeals to halt the centuries-old custom of animal sacrifice, Gadhimai festival on Tuesday started in southern Nepal with millions of devotees flocking from various parts of the country and India.
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Phayul, November 24, 2009
Dharamsala, India -- Hundreds of Buddhists from Russia and its neghbouring countries are currently in Dharamsala to attend His Holiness the Dalai Lama's three-day teachings and Buddhist initiation.
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ANI, November 21, 2009
Bodh Gaya, India -- Buddhist monks from various parts of the globe offered prayers for world peace here.
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ANI, November 20, 2009
Ladakh, India -- Buddhists in Ladakh recently celebrated the two-day Chemday monastery festival. The festival is celebrated every year according to the Tibetan calendar on the 28th and 29th days of the ninth month.
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Financial Express, Nov 19, 2009
Chennai, India -- India will receive a loan of $20 million from Asian Development Bank (ADB) for its tourism infrastructure development projects, which will improve key tourism sites in the country.
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by Melani Manel Perera, AsiaNews, Nov 16, 2009
The Sri Lankan government is criticised for giving “a ruthless murder the red carpet treatment.” Buddhist monks are also slammed for giving their “blessing to the junta leader” even though he murder hundreds of monks in Myanmar.
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PTI, Nov 16, 2009
Patna, India -- With an increase in tourist flow to Bihar, an air taxi service connecting various Buddhist sites in the state would be launched soon.
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TNN, 13 November 2009
Bomdi-la, India -- The long-cherished dream of people of Bomdi-la, a tranquil and desolate township in Arunachal Pradesh's West Kameng district, was fulfilled on Friday when they got a glimpse of the Dalai Lama who arrived here the previous day.
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By Kinga Dema, Kuensel Online, 16 November, 2009
Singaporean and Hong Kong sponsors express happiness with progress on project
Timphu, Bhutan -- Consecration of the 169-foot bronze statue of Buddha Dordenma, Vajra Throne Buddha, being constructed at Kuensel Phodrang in Changbangdu, overlooking the capital city, will be completed by October next year, said one of the main sponsors, Wong Kiam Seng.
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Daily EduNews, November 12, 2009
New Delhi, India -- Reviving Nalanda University praiseworthy - Australian PM New Delhi: Prime Minister of Australia, Mr. Kevin Rudd, today delivered an important speech on strategic affairs and the Australia-India relationship at the Indian Council for World Affairs (ICWA) in New Delhi.
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By Kelum Bandara, Daily Mirror, Nov 13, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) leader Mangala Samaraweera yesterday criticized the government for arranging a visit by Myanmar junta leader Than Shwe and described him as one of the most ruthless anti democratic leaders scorned by the world community.
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PTI, Nov 12, 2009
TAWANG, India -- Tibetan Spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama on Nov 9 inaugurated a district hospital here and donated Rs two million (US$ 43,000) for its building on the second day of his visit to India’s Arunachal Pradesh.
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The Buddhist Channel, Nov 11, 2009
Nijgad, Nepal -- In Nepal, from November 19th to the 24th, 2009 Palden Dorje a.k.a. Ram Bahadur Bomjan (Ram Bomjon) will bless pilgrims at the site of the Gadhi Mai Fair which is likely the largest animal sacrificing festival in the world.
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by Sukhendu Bhattacharya, Outlook India, Nov 09, 2009
Tawang, India -- Asking his followers to be "Buddhists of the 21st century," Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama today asked the community to work for removing evils like superstition and bring "positive change" in the society.
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PTI, Nov 4, 2009
New Delhi, India -- With the aim of promoting tourism in the Buddhist circuit, government has finalised a loan agreement with Japan.
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CNA, November 2009
TAWANG, India -- The Dalai Lama visited a remote Tibetan monastery in northeast India on Sunday at the start of a trip that has infuriated China, which claims the surrounding Himalayan region as its own.
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by John Whalen-Bridge, The B uddhist Channel, Nov 5, 2009
Dharamsala, India -- Several protests were organized in Dharamsala on the third week of October, 2009 as anger simmered over the execution of four Tibetan activists in Lhasa.
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by Indo Asian News Service, October 31, 2009
Bhopal, India -- Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ratnashri Wickramanayake Saturday said ties between India and his country are growing stronger after he inaugurated a Buddhist prayer centre at Sanchi in Madhya Pradesh.
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TNN, November 2, 2009
NAGPUR, India -- Nagpur and Vidarbha have had a definitive legacy of Buddhism and neo-Buddhist movement. A new leaf was added to this legacy in the form of Dragon Palace Temple in Kamptee.
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Times of India, October 31, 2009
Tawang, India -- The day starts early at the monastery in Tawang, a rambling structure atop a mountain with clusters of smaller buildings and living quarters
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TNN 30 October 2009
DARJEELING, India -- From a follower of the Boston Redsox national basketball team to being the Rinpoche of Drukpa Kagyu, a sub-sect of Tibetan Buddhism, 11-year-old Jigme Wangchuk has come a long way in the past few days. And for this change to happen, his religious order has waited 759 years.
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By Damanjeet Kohli, Channel NewsAsia, October 28, 2009
India's Sikkim looking to attract Buddhist tourists from Southeast Asia
Sikkim, INDIA -- India's northeastern state of Sikkim is looking to attract tourists from Thailand and it is trying to do so by promoting its many Buddhist sites.
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TNN, 29 October 2009
VARANASI, India -- On the day when the city celebrates Kartik Purnima on November 2, Buddhists from different parts of the country and abroad will assemble in Sarnath - the place where Buddha preached his first sermon - to celebrate the 78th annual function of Mulagandha Kuti Vihara.
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By L. B. Senaratne, Daily Mirror, Oct 23, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- A memorandum has been sent to President Mahinda Rajapaksa by the Mahanayaka Theras of the three Nikayas to set up a Board of the Maha Sangha and laymen to approve books pertaining to Buddhism.
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By Phurbu Thinley, Phayul, October 15, 2009
Dharamsala, India -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Thursday began giving Buddhist teachings at the request of around 1000 Taiwanese devotees at the Main Tibetan Temple (Tsuglagkhang) here.
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by Vijay Kumar, GroundReport.com, October 7, 2009
Jammu, India -- Buddhism has played a vital role for the promotion of Socio-economic development of the State of J&K,said Minister for Tourism and Culture, Nawang Rigzin Jora.
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Punjab Newsline Network, October 6, 2009
MUMBAI, India -- Jet Airways, India’s premier international airline, will connect the Thai capital of Bangkok with Gaya and Varanasi, two important Indian cities on the famed Buddhist circuit, with twice weekly flights, effective October 6, 2009.
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By Ajmer Alam Wani, Kashmir Watch, Oct 5, 2009
Srinagar, India -- It was earlier during the rein of Kanashika and now after a gape of 2000 years; the Kashmir Valley which is known world over for varied reasons (like nature, beauty and the militancy) hosts international Conference on Indian Society for Buddhist Studies.
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Kashmir Observer, Oct 3, 2009
Srinagar, India -- The University of Kashmir is all set to host an important conference on Buddhist Studies from October 5.
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TNN, 29 September 2009
SHIRVA, Udupi district (India) -- There is conclusive historical evidence that Buddhism existed and played a vital role in the culture and civilization of northern, southern and coastal Karnataka, from 300 BC to 500 AD.
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Littleabout.com, Sep 24, 2009
Samdruptse, Sikkim (India) -- Hundreds of Buddhist monks and devotees have converged at the altar of Guru Padmasambhava at Samdruptse in Sikkim to offer mass collective prayers for universal peace during the ongoing 12-day long spiritual event.
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Bernama, September 25, 2009
AHMEDABAD, India -- Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is seeking the assistance of Asian experts to develop Buddhism-related tourism in the western state of India.
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Lanka Everything, 27th September 2009
Deekshabhoomi, India -- Deekshabhoomi is a sacred monument of Buddhism at the place where Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar was converted to Buddhism along with thousands of his followers on October 14, 1956. Dr. Ambedkar's conversion to Buddhism is still a guidance for the masses in India.
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by Sunandita Dasgupta, PTI, Sept 21, 2009
Mcleodganj, HP (India) -- Bright hues, unique colour schemes and minute detailing make the Tibetan 'thangkas' or religious scroll-paintings a visual treat -- and the exile community here are going all out to preserve the art form.
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By Gyalsten K Dorji, Kuensel Online, Sept 21, 2009
Timphu, Bhutan -- In an effort to bridge the gap between Bhutanese youth and the understanding of Buddhism, a prominent Rinpoche interacted with school students at a talk in Thimphu yesterday and answered an unexpectedly long list of questions on Buddhism.
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Lanka Daily News, Sept 18, 2009
Address by Urban Development Minister Rohana Kumara Dissanayake at the celebration held at Buddhagaya, India on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Anagarika Dharmapala
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Dharmapala was born to a rich aristocratic family of Southern Sri Lanka on September 17, 1864. His parents were Mudliyar Don Carolis Hewavitharana and Mallika Dharmagunawardhana.
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By Janaka Perera, Asian Tribune, September 19, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- After six years, the largely negative attitude among many Sri Lankan Buddhists towards temporary ordination has undergone a welcome change. The credit for this achievement goes to the Buddhist Cultural Centre (BCC) Nedimala, Dehiwala, which arranged for lay Buddhists to become monks and nuns temporarily in 2003.
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By Phurbu Thinley, Phayul, September 15, 2009
Dharamsala, India -- Dharamsala, September 15: Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Tuesday began three-day general Buddhist teachings at the main Tibetan temple at the request of some 200 Korean Buddhists.
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Reuters, Sep 11, 2009
THIMPHU, Bhutan -- Bhutan has warned its citizens over cutting down thousands of young trees every year to make prayer flags, a threat to the tiny kingdom's lush scenery and the government's duty to bring "Gross National Happiness."
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The Sunday Times, Sept 13, 2009
Sri Lanka Prime Minister and Minister become unsuspecting victims; entourage monk deported
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Two senior Government dignitaries -- Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake and Ports Minister Chamal Rajapaksa -- who traveled to Japan for what was billed as an "Exposition of Sacred Relics of Lord Buddha", it has come to light, were unsuspecting victims of a move to misrepresent Buddha's relics, misuse Sri Lanka's name and engage in a human smuggling operation.
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By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema, The Sunday Leader, Sept
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Allegations of bribery and corruption have been levelled against former Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva in relation to his role in the formation of The Buddhist Broadcasting Services.
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by Lyse Doucet, BBC, Sept 9, 2009
Lyse Doucet meets the man on the trail of the legendary lost Buddha
Bamiyan, Afghanistan -- Dr Zemaryalai Tarzi is an Afghan with a big dream. To be exact, this archaeologist dreams of a giant - a 1,000ft (300 metre) sleeping Buddha.
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The Island, Sep 2, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Minister of Justice and Law Reforms Milinda Moragoda has appointed a group of eminent senior Buddhist Monk’s of all Nikayas as honorary advisors to the Ministry.
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The Buddhist Channel, Sep 2, 2009
Mumbai, India -- Jet Airways, India’s premier international airline, will connect the Thai capital of Bangkok with Gaya and Varanasi, two important Indian cities on the famed Buddhist circuit, effective October 6, 2009.
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By Gyalsten K Dorji, Kuensel Online, 27 August, 2009
Timphu, Bhutan -- Visiting the Memorial Chorten in Thimphu, Dr Rewatha Thera, asked a Bhutanese lam what the decorations or flags adorning the structure for the annual Moenlam Choenmo symbolised. The lam, after some hesitation, replied that he had no idea.
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ANI, August 19, 2009
New Delhi, India -- Union Tourism Minister Kumari Selja has said that her Ministry will take along Uttar Pradesh and Bihar while promoting Buddhist Circuit for tourists.
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by Pranava K Chaudhary, TNN, August 19, 2009
PATNA, India -- The spread of swine flu across India notwithstanding, more than 30 Thai visitors including travel operators, hotel magnates and travel
writers arrived here on a week long promotional tour of Buddhist circuit in Bihar, UP and Nepal.
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By Fawad Ali Shah, Daily Times, Aug 18, 2009
KARACHI, Pakistan -- There is not even a single monastery in Pakistan, which once remained a hub of Buddhism.
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Indopia, August 17,2009
Faizabad , India -- A UK-based Buddhist organisation has staked claim over the disputed site in Ayodhya, claiming that the actual birth place of Ram could be somewhere in Afghanistan.
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Lanka Times, Aug 15, 2009
Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka -- A Buddhist delegation led by Industrial development Minister Kumara Welgama now on a visit to Japan will return home tomorrow with a Bodhi sapling directly related to the Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi in Anuradhapura, gifted by the Buddhists in Japan.
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Voice of Sikkim, Aug 11, 2009
GANGTOK, Sikkim (India) -- Preparations for the annual Pang Lhabsol celebrations have begun.
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IANS, AUg 8, 2009
Patna, India -- Hundreds of Buddhist monks in Bihar have been performing special prayers and rituals at the Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya to appease the rain god and end the ongoing dry spell in the state.
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The Nation, Aug 9, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The 102-member Chinese Buddhist delegation on a visit here from August 2 will leave the country today.
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ColomboPage News Desk, Jul 29, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- A Buddhist monk filed a petition at the Sri Lanka Supreme Court this morning against the government's decision of preventing the monks from obtaining driving licenses.
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By AMY YEE, New York Times, July 30, 2009
Tibetan Buddhists expand studies
DHARAMSALA, India -- Tibetan monks and nuns spend their lives studying the inner world of the mind rather than the physical world of matter. Yet for one month this spring, a group of 91 monastics devoted themselves to the corporeal realm of science.
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ColomboPage News Desk, July 29, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The administration of Sri Lanka's most sacred Temple of the Tooth has come under heavy criticism for forcibly taking away two baby elephants from their mothers at the Pinnawela elephant orphanage.
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By Vishal Gulati, IANS, July 21, 2009
Dharamsala, India -- Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, is all set to take up the cause of the exiles and the need to restart the dialogue process with China on Tibet’s future with the Obama administration during his visit to the US in October this year.
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by H.S.S. Nissanka, Lanka Daily News, July 22, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- “In the strict sense of the word, there is no Buddhist law; there is only an influence exercised by Buddhist ethics or changes that have taken place in customs. No Buddhist authority.... has ever created or promulgated any law”. (Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, S.V. Law) and stated that he would maintain on the contrary that the monastic code consisted of laws in so far as it consisted of enforceable rules of conduct, precisely stated and codified, there being a set procedures laid down in the Constitution for trial and conviction in case of infringement.
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IANS, July 19, 2009
Kandy, Sri Lanka -- The famous 17th century Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic is breathing easy for the first time in many years ahead of a pageant that draws hundreds of thousands of people to this sacred Buddhist town. For, the Tamil Tigers lie vanquished.
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Sindh Today, July 10, 2009
Srinagar, India -- In a bid to attract more Buddhist pilgrims, Jammu and Kashmir’s tourism department is set to rejuvenate Buddhist sites in the state.
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Phayul, July 11 2009
Dharamshala, India -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama blessed and inaugurated the new Sakya Tenggyu monastery located at Kaza in Spiti valley of Himachal Pradesh, on Thursday, 9 July.
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by Mazhar Ali, TNN, 13 July 2009
CHANDRAPUR, India -- Those visiting the Mana opencast mine come across a tiny island having 2,000-year-old Buddhist caves standing tall between an over hundred-metre deep quarry.
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The Telegraph, July 8, 2009
Do not let outsiders change local names, Gelukpas appeal to govt
Itanagar, India -- Madhuri Dixit, one of Bollywood’s most famous faces till recently, has sparked a row in Arunachal Pradesh.
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New Tang Dynasty Television, July 3, 2009
Manali, India -- Hundreds of Buddhist monks completed an arduous 240 mile journey through Himalayan mountain passes, from Manali in Himachal Pradesh to Ladakh in Indian Jammu and Kashmir.
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ANI, July 6 2009
Dharamsala, India -- Tibetans living in exile in Dharamsala celebrated the 74th birthday of Buddhist spiritual leader Dalai Lama today.
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www.scoopnews.in, July 1, 2009
Ladakh, India -- All the Buddhist organizations of the Himalayan region from Arunachal Pradesh to Ladakh are organizing a felicitation function as a tribute of gratitude in honor of 50 years of Dalai Lama in India on the occasion of his 74th Birthday on July 6.
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IANS, July 2nd, 2009
Hemis, Jammu and Kashmir (India) -- Dancers draped in silk moved to the beat of drums, evil spirits were warded off and over 60,000 plastic water bottles were collected as the annual three-day Hemis festival began.
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TNN, 1 Jul 2009
VADODARA, India -- With the state government making provision for organising an international seminar on Buddhist heritage of Gujarat in its budget this year, archaeologists at M S University are gearing up to host the seminar in January next year.
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ANI, June 29, 2009
Himachal Pradesh, India -- Gigmed Choekyi Syingey, a revered Buddhist monk performed the unique religious 'Chakrasamvara Abhisheka' ceremony in Himachal Pradesh on Sunday.
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IANS, June 26, 2009
Dharamsala/Gangtok, India -- Tibetan exiles in India Friday celebrated the 25th birthday of the 17th Karmapa, Ugyen Trinley Dorjee, the only major monk reincarnate recognised by both the Dalai Lama and China.
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ANI, June 24, 2009
Dharamshala, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Wednesday started a two-day special teaching session for Buddhist students in Dharamsala.
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By Rathindra Kuruwita, The Nation, June 21, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Buddhist countries can play a major role in the future of Sri Lanka and counterbalance the western powers, suggested President Mahinda Rajapaksa at a tribute organised by Sri Lanka Amarapura Maha Nikaya and Sri Lanka Ramanna Nikaya at Independence Square, yesterday.
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by Indrani Dutta, The Hindu, June 14 2009
KOLKATA, India -- Lord Buddha may have been born in Nepal and attained Nirvana in India, but it is China which has the largest number of World Heritage Sites of Buddhism, says Mao Siwei, Consul-General of China in Kolkata.
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by Saman Weeraman, The Nation, June 14, 2009
Hambantota, Sri Lanka -- Thanks to the eradication of terrorism, people in the country celebrated Poson in an atmosphere of peace and harmony after a long tome, observed Ports and Civil Aviation Minister Chamal Rajapaksa in Hambantota last week.
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by Asha Senevirathne, Sunday Observer, June 7, 2009
Samana Mayam maharaja
Dhammarajassa savaka
Thamena anukampaya
Jambudvipa idagata
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ANI, June 4, 2009
Bodh Gaya, India -- Buddhist monks and nuns here offered prayer for the victims of Air France Flight 447, which crashed in the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday night en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris with 228 passengers on board.
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A Special Report by Ven Y. Wimala, The Buddhist Channel, June 7, 2009
Ven Y. Wimala, a recipient of the "Global Peace Award" in 2007, has returned to Sri Lanka to help "internally displaced people" - mostly victims of the island's civil war
Vavuniya, Sri Lanka -- When I arrived in Sri Lanka just days ago, the national flag was flying everywhere. Everyone I spoke with was happy that the war has finally ended. Incredibly, I noticed fewer road blocks and less military presence on the streets than before. It took a while for me to begin to believe that the past 30 years of war had really, really ended and people were celebrating this return to normalcy.
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by Irangika RANGE, Lanka Daily News, June 4, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Mahakaruna Buddhist Society in Sri Lankaramaya Buddhist Temple, Singapore has pledged to take care of 600 internally displaced children including 350 children who had lost their parents and 250 of university students in the Manik Farm transit village in Vavuniya.
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by Kripa Krishnan, PTI, June 1, 2009
Manali, India -- What does Barack Obama have in common with the Gyalwang Drukpa, spiritual leader of the 800-year-old Buddhist sect? The answer involves some hundred volunteers who march alongside the monks and nuns of the faith through the Himalayas on a 'padyatra'.
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By Pawan Kumar Shah, PTI, May 31, 2009
Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh (India) -- An international airport is soon to come up in Kushinagar, the destination of Buddha 'Parinirvana' or final salvation, where Buddha breathed his last.
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Sunday Times, May 31, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Colombo Young Men's Buddhist Association released a special issue of "The Buddhist" for Vesak this year.
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by GAUTAM SARKAR, The Telegraph, May 27, 2009
Dumka, India -- If all goes well, the land of Lord Baidyanath will be connected with the Buddhist tourist circuit.
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by Chitraratne Kaluarachchi, Lanka Daily News, May 26, 2009
Kandy, Sri Lanka -- Keleththewa Samadhi International Buddhist Centre along the Anuradhapura-Kandy main road will be opened on May 31 at 2.00 p.m.
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by Gouri Shah, Livemint.com, May 25, 2009
India is developing in a manner where it is taking people who are below the poverty line along with it in its growth and development process
Mumbai, India -- Former joint secretary in the ministry of tourism Amitabh Kant talks in an interview about his book Branding India: An Incredible Story, the impact of the recent election results on tourism,?and?challenges and opportunities before the brand that’s India. Edited excerpts:
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PTI, May 21, 2009
Timphu, Bhutan -- Bhutan is mulling to introduce Buddhism in colleges as it feels it is necessary for the education system of a country with a Buddhist culture.
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Asiantribune.com, May 20, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Minister of Tourism Milinda Moragoda took part in the third annual meeting in connection with the Borobudur Declaration, on the invitation of the Indonesian Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mr. Jero Wacik.
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By Phurbu Thinley, Phayul, May 16, 2009
Dharamsala, India -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Saturday said Buddhist nuns from Himalayan regions had an important responsibility in preserving Tibetan Buddhist traditions, which he said was facing an uncertain future in its homeland.
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The Hindu, May 16, 2009
Bones of Buddha and his disciples are now preserved in Bodh Gaya. Darjeeling has a sizeable Buddhist population
KOLKATA, India -- Plans are on to display in Darjeeling the relics of Gautama Buddha and two of his principal disciples housed at the Jaya Shri Mahabodhi Vihara at Bodh Gaya.
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TNN, 10 May 2009
MANGALORE, India -- The tenets of Buddhism are based on scientific reasoning, which is why B R Ambedkar thought it to be the ideal path to progress for the oppressed in society, said Rachaiah, HOD, department of economics, DVS Arts and Science College, Shimoga.
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ColomboPage News Desk, May 8, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- To mark the Vesak festival, several colourful Vesak pandals are on display starting from today in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo and its suburbs despite the heightened security concerns.
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by Hilary Rajakarunanayake, Asian Tribune, May 9, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- After 30 years, Buddhists in the Jaffna peninsula and in Batticaloa celebrated Vesak on Friday, commemorating the birth of Buddha, his attaining Enlightenment and his passing away into Nirvana.
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The Sangai Express, May 9 2009
Imphal, India -- Stepping in to act as a catalyst in strengthening friendship with South East Asian countries and at the same time to help pilgrims visit Buddhist shrines and temples in India, Buddhists' Council Manipur (BCM) has initiated ground works to facilitate pilgrimage of foreign Buddhists through Manipur.
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ANI, May 9, 2009
Leh, Ladakh (India) -- Thousands of enthusiastic Buddhism devotees converged at Leh in Ladakh region of Kashmir to celebrate Buddha Jayanti or, the birth anniversary of Lord Buddha on Saturday.
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The Buddhist Channel, May 8, 2009
Bangalore, India -- DHARMA SUBHASHITA (Thubten Lekshey Ling) Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Meditation and Study Center (dharmasubhashita.org) will be conducting a celebration of Buddha Poornima (Wesak) at Bangalore on 9th of May. Buddha Poornima marks the anniversary of the birth of Siddhartha Gautama, his attainment of Buddhahood and his Mahaparinirvana.
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Lanka Daily News, May 8, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The way to tread the path of the Thathagatha is to treat the hundreds of thousands of our citizens pushed by terrorism into welfare centres as the internally displaced, with kindness and benevolence, President Mahinda Rajapaksa stated in his Vesak message.
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The Buddhist Channel, May 8, 2009
New Delhi, India -- The President of India, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil, in her message on the occasion of Buddha Poornima which is being observed tomorrow, has said: -
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by Seth Mydans, International Herald Tribune, May 6, 2009
Under a new Constitution, government programs must be judged by the happiness they produce, not by the economic benefits
THIMPHU, Bhutan — If the rest of the world cannot get it right in these unhappy times, this tiny Buddhist kingdom high in the Himalayan mountains says it is working on an answer.
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by Syed Rizwanullah, TNN, 7 May 2009
AURANGABAD, India -- Hundreds of Buddhist monks took out a morcha to the residence of the vice-chancellor of Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University (Bamu) on Wednesday demanding a road to the Buddha Vihar situated close to the ancient Aurangabad caves.
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Lanka Daily News, May 7, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- There passed away 140 years ago to be precise on July 8, 1833, a Buddhist prelate whose services to his religion were inestimable and his contribution to national culture was outstanding. He was Mahaddama Rajadhi Rajaguru Gnanavimala Tissa, the founder of the Amarapura Nikaya.
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by M B Maramkal, TNN, May 4, 2009
BYLAKUPPE, India -- Hundreds of Buddhist monks, scholars and devotees from Tibetan camps in India and other parts of the world are making a beeline to this Tibetan settlement camp to pay their reverences to the departed monk whose body is being preserved here at Nyingma Monastery's golden temple since the last 31 days.
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By Gyalsten K Dorji, Kuensel Online, May 1, 2009
Timphu, Bhutan -- The royal university of Bhutan (RUB) - in partnership with dratshang - may include Buddhism in Bhutanese colleges.
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by Marcus Dam, The Hindu, April 29, 2009
Sikkim, India -- Phetook Tshering Bhutia, being the eldest son in his family, was initiated into the monastic life, a tradition in some families with links to the monastery. He was a schoolboy when he was taken to the Namchi Ngadak monastery (gompa) in South Sikkim district in the mid-1950s.
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By Ashin Mettacara, The Buddhist Channel, 29 April 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Myanmar Buddhist monks studying in Sri Lanka helped the victims of Tamil war by collecting alms.
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By Janaka Perera, Asian Tribune, April 26, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Joint Committee of Buddhist Organizations has welcomed the common desire of Christian Churches for an integrated Sri Lankan Nation but notes that some of their activities in enriching national life are highly questionable.
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By Anish V Punnackattu, Travel Biz Monitor, April 23, 2009
Also plans to develop pilgrim guest houses at Bodhgaya, Rajgir and Patna
New Delhi. India -- Buddhist Monuments Development Council (BMDC), a national organisation dedicated to promote growing Buddhist sites in India has decided to open Buddhist information centres at various Buddhist sites in India.
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by Anurag Sharma, PTI, APril 21, 2009
Kathmandu, Nepal -- Tibetan people are going through difficulties because of political reasons and the spiritual master Dalai Lama is just helping them in all possible non-violent ways, says the head of Drukpa lineage, an 800-year-old Buddhist sect from Tibet.
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by Premasara Epasinghe, Lanka Daily News, April 20, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Television can be defined as a system for reproducing on screen visual images transmitted, with sound by radio signals. Today, it is one of the most powerful and popular electronic medium in the world.
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ANI. April 17, 2009
Rongyek, Sikkim (India) -- Hundreds of Buddhist devotees congregated at Sa-Ngor Gompa monastery here to pray for world peace and welfare of humanity.
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By Phurbu Thinley, Phayul, April 13, 2009
Dharamsala, India -- Welcoming the New Year holiday truce declared in Sri Lanka with great relief, exiled Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Monday expressed hope that the move would offer an opportunity for Sinhalese-Tamil relations to further take a new and more constructive direction.
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Tibet Custom, , April 14 2009
Dharamshala, India -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Sunday emphasised the preservation and protection of Tibetan Buddhism and culture, while inaugurating a new Tibetan monastic institution near Norbulingka Tibetan Cultural Institute, located in the north Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.
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The News, April 14, 2009
Islamabad, Pakistan -- Gandhara Art and Culture Association (GACA) has planned to revive the 2,500 years old Buddhist University of Taxila with the contemporary features of the 21st century.
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by Anurag Sharma, PTI, Apr 13, 2009
Kathmandu, Nepal -- They have followers in millions, spread across the world but this 800-year-old Buddhist sect, Drukpa, feels that the world really does not know much about them.
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By Ratnadeep Banerji, The Organiser, April 9, 2009
New Delhi, India -- Tibetan banishment in India has completed its 50 years. The Tibetan Government-in-exile has expressed its earnest gratitude to India and its people for according cozy shelter in distressed times. A five-day long symposium took place at India International Centre, New Delhi.
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Sindh Today, April 6, 2009
Dharamsala, India -- Tulku Tsenyi Khentrul Tenzin Tseten Rinpoche, a nine-year-old boy, was Monday enthroned as the reincarnation of Geshe Lobsang Gyatso, the founder of the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics (IBD).
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By Gyalsten K Dorji, Kuensel Online, April 9, 2009
Sogyal Rinpoche’s two-day instruction on meditation practice
Timphu, Bhutan -- “Hello, how are you, my darlings?” Sogyal Rinpoche beamed at his audience, many of whom were students and also included Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y Thinley, inside a hall at the YDF complex, Thimphu.
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By Janaka Perera, Asian Tribune, April 4, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- They say those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to relive it. It appears that the UNP under Ranil Wickremesinghe virtually mirrors the UNP of 1955-56 on more than one issue concerning the Sinhala majority.
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Lanka Daily News, Apr 2, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- President Mahinda Rajapaksa inspected work so far completed by the BOI at the International Buddhist Centre at Piliyandala.
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by Anand Sankar, Business Standard, April 1, 2009
New Delhi, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader in exile, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, today called upon the Chinese government to throw open Tibet to “independent, impartial observers” immediately.
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IANS, March 28, 2009
New Delhi, India -- Drukpa, an 800-year-old Buddhist sect from Tibet, is coming out of its theological cloister to showcase its legacy - and it also wants to woo Buddhists in India.
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By L.B.Senaratne, Daily Mirror, March 27, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The new amendments to the Buddhist Temporalities Act are now being finalised by the two Chapters of Malwatta and Asgiriya, for which a committee including an Attorney and a Senior Basnayake Nilame has been sitting for several months.
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Lanka Daily News, March 26, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Mahanayaka Thera of Asgiri Chapter, Ven. Udugama Sri Buddharakkitha Mahanayaka Thera, Religious Affairs Minister Pandu Bandaranaike and representatives from the other three Buddhist Chapters who will participate in the Second World Buddhist Forum to be held in Wuxi, China and Chinese Taipei from March 27 to April 1.
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by Uditha Kumarasinghe, Lanka Daily News, March 25, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Ven. Warapitiye Rahula Thera who works as a Grade One Social Service Officer attached to the Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte Divisional Secretariat Office has made a request from President Mahinda Rajapaksa seeking an immediate transfer to a Divisional Secretariat Office in the Jaffna peninsula.
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By Himal Kotelawala and Shane Seneviratne, Sunday Times, March 22, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Human Rights Commission (HRC) has held the Buddhist Affairs Commissioner responsible for failing to act in a case where 25 gold plated Buddha statues are reported to have gone missing in the present incumbency of the Dalada Maligawa Diyawadana Nilame. Nilanga Dela Bandara.
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By Kencho Wangdi, Kuensel Online, March 19, 2009
Bir, India -- Opening the conference in Bir, India, on ‘Translating the Words of the Buddha’, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche warned of “how urgent and precarious” the survival of Buddhist culture and civilisation had become and urged the world’s leading Buddhist translators, including publishers, gathered there, to rescue Buddha’s teachings “from premature extinction”.
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By Kencho Wangdi, Kuensel Online, March 14, 2009
Timphu, Bhutan -- In what could be instrumental to the future of Buddhism in the world, a group of top Buddhist translators, led by Bhutan’s Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, is meeting in Bir, India, to initiate the translation of Buddha’s teachings from the classical Buddhist language Choekye into English.
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By Gyalsten K Dorji, Kuensel Online, March 14, 2009
Going around in circles - Is our religious practice restricted to ritual?
Timphu, Bhutan -- 'Why do you practice Buddhism? “To fulfill my desires, get a good job and earn more money,” said a class 9 Yangchenphug student, who had just completed his daily routine of circumambulating the Memorial Chorten in Thimphu.
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By Gamini Jayasinghe, Daily Mirror, March 10, 2009
Significance of Medin Full Moon Poya Day
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- It was on a Medin Full Moon Poya day that Siddhartha Gauthama Buddha first visited his birth place, Kapilawattupura, the Kingdom of His father, King Suddhodana.
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By J.A.L. Jayasinghe, Daily Mirror, March 11, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Labour Minister Mervyn Silva accompanied by a group of his supporters toured the Kandy city yesterday and asked city dwellers to hoist the Buddhist flag at residence.
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by M. A. R. Manukulasooriya, Lanka Daily News, March 9, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The highest attainment in the academic field will fail if the child becomes spiritually bankrupt, said Ven. Mahauswewa Dhammadassi Thera, Principal of the Sri Mahinda Dhamma school, Baladora.
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The Age, March 9, 2009
Dharmsala, India -- The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in an interview with Taiwan television aired on Sunday, said he is in excellent health - but won't seek reincarnation.
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by Premakumara De Silva, University of Colombo, Lanka Daily News, March 5, 2009
Sri Lanka to issue stamp in his honour
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Dr. A.P. de Zoysa (1890 - 1968) was something of a polymath. Born in Randombe, Ambalangoda, he had his first lessons in the nearby historic temple, the Maha Samudraramaya, and later attended the Wesleyan school in Randombe and Mahinda College, Galle, where he came under the influence of its principal, the famous Theosophist and Pali scholar F.L. Woodward.
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IANS, March 4, 2009
Patna, India -- A young Buddhist monk committed suicide in the Mahabodhi temple complex in Bihar’s Bodh Gaya town Wednesday, the police said.
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Indopia, March 3,2009
New Delhi, India -- A train launched by Railways in 2007 connecting popular Buddhist circuits, has won the National Tourism Award for providing"safe and unmatched"travelling experience to tourists.
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Sindh Today, March 4, 2009
Dharamsala, India -- Hundreds of Tibetan Buddhist exiles will assemble in this north Indian hill town to hear their spiritual head, the Dalai Lama, deliver a crucial address March 10, the 50th anniversary of the failed Tibetan uprising.
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IANS, March 1, 2009
Kolkata, India -- Global recession is posing a hurdle to the revival of Nalanda University, the world’s oldest centre of learning, says Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen.
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by M.A.R. Manukulasooriya, Lanka Daily News, Feb 23, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Massive funds are spent annually by the Government for the uplift of Dhamma education, said Pandu Bandaranayake, Minister of Religious Affairs.
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IANS, February 20, 2009
Kathmandu, Nepal -- Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa is scheduled to visit his Nepal in March and pray at holy Buddhist shrines in the land where the Buddha was born.
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by Chamikara WEERASINGHE, Lanka Daily News, Feb 18, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Colombo Buddhist Theosophical Society commemorated the 102 nd death anniversary of prominent lawyer, journalist and Philanthropist Colonel Henry Steele Olcott at the Buddhist Theosophical Society Hall on Tuesday.
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Phayul, February 17, 2009
The first Tibetan college, named “The Dalai Lama Institute for Higher Education,” is located near the Indian IT city of Bangalore
Dharamsala, India -- Exiled Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama Monday officially inaugurated and unveiled the name of the first Tibetan college of the exile Tibetan community set up in India.
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Asian Tribune, Feb 17, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The head Priest of Heiyanthuduwa Purana Viharya Venerable Valamitiyawe Seelarthana hailed and awarded a plaque to a local entrepreneur Kaushal Rajapaksha , who holds CEO post of the Kalhari Entreprises , Heyyanthuduwa Sri Lanka recently at a ceremony held at the Heyyanthuduwa Purana Viharaya.
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Lanka Daily News, Feb 17, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- World history finds its greatness and attraction through the services rendered by philanthropists. A person whoever he is achieves greatness through ideologies borne in his mind and to the extent of effectiveness and favourable consequences resulting therefrom.
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Lanka Daily News, Feb 12, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- An eight-member Buddhist delegation from Japan led by Ven. Teruzumi Fukushima, the Viharadhipathi and Chief Incumbent of the Direjin temple of Japan arrived in the island on Sunday night.
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Sify News, February 8, 2009
Kathmandu, Nepal -- Drawing strength from parliament that three years ago declared the former Hindu kingdom of Nepal a secular state, Buddhist leaders are now demanding the construction of a Buddhist shrine at a famed 12th Century archaeological site, stoking afresh a temple versus monastery controversy.
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by Tanvir A Siddiqui, Indian Express, Feb 9, 2009
Ahmedabad, India -- The state government, having been prodded by Japan and Sri Lanka, is seriously working in the direction of developing a Buddhist circuit in Gujarat.
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By Susitha R. Fernando, The Sunday Times, Feb 8, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- First ever Buddhist film festival will be opened with Vesak celebration 2009 together with film screenings, book fairs, art exhibitions, beautiful decorations like pandals and food festivals from May 9 to 16, 2009 at BMICH premises.
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by Pranava K Chaudhary, TNN, Feb 6, 2009
PATNA, India -- The Union tourism ministry is toying with the idea to introduce luxury trains in the Buddhist circuit in Bihar on the pattern of the prestigious Palace on Wheels.
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AFP, Feb 3, 2009
NEW DELHI, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama was resting in his home-in-exile Tuesday after being treated for a pinched nerve in hospital, his spokesman said.
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Daily Mirror, Feb 2, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- US Ambassador in Colombo Robert O. Blake said yesterday that preserving Sri Lanka’s long standing traditions will only succeed if the country’s political leaders, its civil society, and its religious leaders stand and reaffirm their commitment to a just, pluralistic and multi-ethnic society built on the principles of tolerance, peace and mutual respect.
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AP, February 2 2009
NEW DELHI, India -- The Dalai Lama has been taken to a New Delhi hospital for medical tests after experiencing discomfort in his arms.
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By Prakash Chand Dubey, UCAN, January 30, 2009
TIMPHU, Bhutan -- Buddhist monks in Bhutan say alcoholism is threatening to destabilize local society and they want young people to turn to traditional spirituality and austerity to escape it.
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by KALYANI SARDESAI, TNN, Feb 1, 2009
PUNE, India -- The University of Pune (UoP) is witnessing a rise in the number of students taking up two ancient Indian languages — Pali and Sanskrit. The number of students opting for Pali has shot up to 200 during the current academic year from 20 to 30 in 2005-06.
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PTI, Jan 30, 2009
Itanagar, India -- Monks fiddling with computers, using cell phones and zipping around on bikes, may appear a bit out of place, but it is common sight at the ancient Buddhist monastery at Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh.
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ANI, January 25, 2009
Leh, Ladakh (India) -- The ”Spituk Gustor”, an annual two-day monastic festival, took place at the Spituk Monastery on January 18 and 19 in Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir.
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ANI, January 25, 2009
Mumbai, India -- India’’s financial and entertainment hub, Mumbai is all set to have Asia’’s largest Pagoda, intended to be a mass meditation centre and also a major tourist attraction in the days to come.
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Indopia, January 25,2009
Dharamsala, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama today extended greetings to the people of China on the eve of Chinese New Year.
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by Balraj Puri, UNN, Jan 25, 2009
Ladakh, India -- Kashmir used to attract national and international attention. After all the state was known by this name and during the entire debate over the future of the state, it was called the Kashmir problem.
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Daily Mirror, Jan 22, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Ven. Athuraliye Ratana Thera has been elected the Chairperson of the Indo-Sri Lanka Buddhist Friendship Association. This election took place following a series of Buddhist ceremonies that took place from January 10 to 11, in Nandedi, Maharashtra.
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Express News Service, Jan 22, 2009
CHENNAI, India -- Several Nobel laureates are soon expected to meet and engage themselves in discussions for negotiating with Sri Lanka and find a permanent solution to the ethnic problem, Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama disclosed this here on Wednesday.
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By Pawan Kumar Shah, ANI, Jan 19, 2009
Kushinagar, India -- Meditation Park in Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh is in bad shape. Lack of maintenance has lead to its deterioration.
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Fox News, January 18, 2009
Dharmsala, India -- The Dalai Lama hints that he is open to picking a woman to succeed him. Successors to the Dalai Lama have traditionally been male.
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by Shripal Nishshanka Fernando, Lankawaeb, Jan 17, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- A most valuable and a highly useful Buddhist Dhamma phone conference in Sinhala language has been in operation for the last two years and anybody who wishes to participate can easily join in this noble program.
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THT Online, January 16, 2009
Kathmandu, Nepal -- A Christian by birth Uose Riu did not know he would fall in love with Buddhism -- a religion he had very little idea about -- when he landed in France 30 years ago.
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Sunday Observer, Jan 18, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Ven. Bellanwila Wimalaratana Maha Thera, deputy chief incumbent of Bellanwila Raja Maha Vihara and Chancellor of Sri Jayawardenapura University was appointed as the Anunayaka of Kotte Sri Kalyani Samagi Dharma Maha Sangha Sabha.
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TNN, Jan 14, 2009
VARANASI, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama exhorted people to protect and conserve the environment for healthy life. He also suggested people to follow the spiritual ways for healthy living.
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By Phurbu Thinley, Phayul, January 14, 2009
Sarnath, India -- Exiled Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama was offered a grand Tenshug (Long-Life ceremonial offering) by the Tibetan Youth Congress, the largest pro-independence group in the exile Tibetan community, to reaffirm its absolute faith and respect in his leadership.
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By Kalinga Seneviratne, IPS, Jan 14, 2009
NAGPUR, India -- Over 50 years ago, the author of India's constitution, B. R. Ambedkar, set in motion a Buddhist socio-political movement which many believe is now ready to fructify through Mayawati, chief minister of northern Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state.
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by BIJENDER SHARMA, Punjab News Line, January 13, 2009
DHARAMSHALA, India -- Large number of Buddhist devotees from the Himalayan regions received audience with his holiness the Dalai Lama during the fourth day of his teachings on Tuesday in Sarnath, India.
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Lanka Daily News, Jan 13, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The ruins of an ancient Buddhist Centre in Ramadegala temple premises about ten miles away from Dambulla rock temple are fast deteriorating due to lack of proper maintenance. Stone pillars, slates, dilapidated stupas, a foundation of Sangawasa are among those ruins.
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Gujarat Global News Network, Jan 13, 2009
Ahmedabad, India -- Gujarat has decided to host a seminar on Buddhism. Chief Minister Narendra Modi said that the seminar will be held at M S University in cooperation with other countries.
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ANI, Jan 12, 2009
Bodh Gaya, India -- Hundreds of Tibetan Buddhist monks participated in a prayer ceremony for world peace that concluded here on Sunday.
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by Tendar Tsering, Phayul, January 13, 2009
Chennai, India -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama will visit the Madras University on 21 January after his Pondicherry visit.
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By Michael Heath, Bloomberg, Jan 13, 2009
Varanasi, India -- The Dalai Lama, Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, blamed a lack of spirituality among people today for the global financial crisis.
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By Tenzin Namgyel, Kuensel Online, Jan 12, 2009
Timphu, Bhutan -- Almost eight years after the government banned the sale of meat on auspicious months (1st and 4th months of the Bhutanese calendar), the National Assembly on January 8 lifted the ban.
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By Tenzin Namgyel, Kuensel Online, Jan 8, 2009
Timphu, Bhutan -- A group of young Bhutanese will celebrate important Buddhist events to promote and propagate Buddhism in a “modern way”.
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By D.C. Ranatunga, The Sunday times, Jan 11, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- “See you soon in Sri Lanka” were Ajahn Brahmavamso’s parting words as I bade him farewell at his Serpentine monastery in Perth. That was in January last year. His visit to Sri Lanka has now been finalised and he is scheduled to be in Colombo on Saturday, January 24.
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By Tashi Pradhan, ANI, Jan 9, 2009
Sikkim, India -- It looked a virtual riot of colours at Rumtek Monastery, 26 kilometers from the state capital Gangtok, recently when many masked Buddhist monks performed a special dance before visitors from within India and abroad.
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by Upali S. Jayasekera, The Island, Jan 10, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- When you enter certain Buddhist temples (in Sri Lanka) you can view statues of various ‘ gods’ in a wing of the temple. There are some temples where pictures of deities who claim to be incarnations of ‘gods’ being given pride of place and offerings made.
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By AMY NG, The Star, January 9, 2009
Bhutan’s wealth and prosperity is driven by a policy that focuses on the pursuit of happiness
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -- I was unprepared to meet His Holiness Gyalwang Drukpa – one of the most distinguished spiritual masters living today, as well as Her Royal Highness Pema Lhadon Wangchuck, the sister of the reigning King of Bhutan, His Majesty Jigma Singye Wangchuck.
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By Phurbu Thinley, Phayul, January 1, 2009
Dharamsala, India -- Fostering an already existing academic cooperation into a fuller collaboration, a Miami University, Ohio USA), today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics, a premier Tibetan learning centre based in Dharamsala, the seat of the Tibetan Government-in-exile.
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By Janaka Perera, Asian Tribune, Jan 6, 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Commission Report on unethical conversions of Buddhists will be launched at the Kularatne Hall, Ananda College, Colombo, on Tuesday January 6. The All Ceylon Buddhist Congress appointed the commission to investigate the conversion of Buddhists into other religions by unethical means and ruses.
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by Asha Krishnaswamy, The Deccan Herald, Jan 6, 2009
Gulbarga is emerging as a major Buddhist centre in South India. The Buddha Vihar will be a new feather in Gulbarga's cap
Gulbarga, India -- Gulbarga is all set to emerge as a major Buddhist pilgrim centre in South India. The Buddha Vihar of Siddarth Vihar Trust will be formally inaugurated by the President of India tomorrow (January 7) and the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet, is scheduled to participate in the rituals on January 19.
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ANI, Jan 2, 2009
Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh (India) -- Hundreds of Buddhists from India and abroad offered special prayers at Kushingar in Uttar Pradesh.
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Daily Mirror, Dec 30, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The 10th meeting of the Steering Committee was held at the International Buddhist Centre located at Piliyandala to conduct an on site inspection to ascertain the progress undertaken on the project.
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IANS, Dec 30, 2008
PATNA, India -- Lord Buddha preached non-violence towards all living beings and in accordance with the teachings of the founder of Buddhism a campaign is under way to turn Bodh Gaya, the land where the Buddha attained enlightenment, into a vegetarian zone.
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By Dr. Janaka Goonetilleke, Lanka Daily News,
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- With the Post Olcott Buddhist revival Galle became the leading centre of Buddhist learning in Sri Lanka (Ceylon). In this revival the Late Mudliyar E R Gooneratne of Atapattu Walauwa Galle played a major role.
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Lanka Daily News, Dec 26, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- A special delegation headed by Sri Lanka Agonshu Friendship Foundation Director General, Rohana Kirthi, Sasanabandu Somasiri. A. Patherana will leave for Japan to participate in the December 30 birth anniversary celebrations of most Ven. Seiu Kiriyama Thera head of Agonshu Nikaya and founder of Agonshu Viharaya.
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ANI, Dec 24, 2008
Ladakh, India -- Residents of Ladakh have celebrated the onset of their new year "Losar" with great festivity and fervor.
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Daily Times, Dec 18, 2008
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Chief Buddhist Monk Jeon Woom Deok called on President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday and exchanged views on various issues of mutual interest.
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By S. Raza Hassan, Dawn, Dec 20, 2008
KARACHI, Pakistan -- Two antique Buddha statues were seized by Pakistan Customs at a mail office on Thursday.
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by R. Gnanadasa Ambalangoda, Lanka Daily News, Dec 17, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- All housing schemes for tsunami affected in Sri Lanka built under the auspices of the Sri Lankaramaya in Singapore have been equipped with a religious centre with the objective of fostering a disciplined and righteous society said Ven. Alawwe Gunaratana Thera of the Sri Lankaramaya in Singapore.
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By Rinzin Wangchuk, Kuensel Online, Dec 15, 2008
Timphu, Bhutan -- The newly consecrated Ta-dzong museum gives a glimpse of Bhutan in the last 100 years with two galleries showcasing the history of monarchy in Bhutan with many royal possessions.
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By Ashok Chaurasia, The Organiser, Dec 15, 2008
Gangtok, Sikkim (India) -- Shri Somdet Phra Nayanasaamvara, the 19th supreme patriarch of the Kingdom of Thailand presented 13 precious relics of Lord Buddha collected from 13 different countries of which 8 are Buddhist countries, to Sikkim (India) for its historic project known as the Sakyamuni Project at Ralong of Ravangla sub-division of south district of Sikkim.
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by Rajiv Mani, TNN, Dec 15, 2008
ALLAHABAD, India -- The experts in ground penetration radar (GPR), ground positioning system (GPS) and geographic information system (GIS) and the faculty members from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-K ) and Allahabad University started the ambitious project of resurveying and re-excavating the archeological site at Kaushambi.
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UNI, December 11, 2008
VISAKHAPATNAM, India -- Andhra Pradesh Archaeology and Museums Department Director P Chenna Reddy said Rs 44.5 lakh was allocated for conservation works, such as, fencing boundaries in the Buddhist Sites and preservation of Chaityas, Stupas and Viharas at Thotlakonda and Pavurallakonda in the region.
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The Times of India, Dec 12, 2008
LUCKNOW, India -- A statue of Bhimrao Ambedkar, chairman of the committee that drafted the Indian constitution, was desecrated in Uttar Pradesh's Mau district, the police said Friday.
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ANI, Dec 10, 2008
Dharamsala, India -- Tibetans living-in-exile in Dharamsala today celebrated 19th anniversary of the Dalai Lama receiving the Nobel peace prize in 1989.
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PTI, Dec 7, 2008
Itanagar, India -- In a startling disclosure, BJP Lok Sabha member from Arunachal Pradesh K Rijju today said that the Chinese army had demolished a Buddha statue at Bumla in Indian territory using mortar shells in October last year.
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Express News Service, Dec 7, 2008
Vadodara, India -- The State Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment, Fakir Vaghela, who is also the managing trustee of Dalit Adhikar Sangh, on Saturday, hailed B R Ambedkar as a “Hindu” leader who opted to follow Buddhism.
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by Don Duncan, The San Francisco Chronicle, Dec 7, 2008
Based on Buddhist principles, the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan has implemented a unique economic policy called Gross National Happiness
Thimphu, Bhutan -- In the thick of a global financial crisis, many economists have come to this Himalayan kingdom to study a unique economic policy called Gross National Happiness, based on Buddhist principles.
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by Frederick Marx, CSRWire, Dec 4, 2008
Zanskar, India -- Indigenous peoples are similar to our globe's flora and fauna in one key way - many of them also face extinction. The systematic suppression of Tibetan people and culture by the Chinese government has been well documented.
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ANI, December 1, 2008
Bodh Gaya, Bihar (India) -- Hundreds of Buddhist monks and devotees from across the globe gathered in Bodh Gaya for an eleven-day long chanting prayer ceremony for world peace that started on Monday.
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IANS, November 21, 2008
New Delhi, India -- Buddhism will have to evolve rites and rituals to become more socially relevant in Asian nations, including India, where people identify religion with prayer rites, feels Buddhist scholar Lokesh Chandra.
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ColomboPage News Desk, November 24, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Latest records of the Education Ministry of Sri Lanka point to the fact that 82% of the school teachers teaching Buddhism from Grade 1 to 11 as a subject are unqualified to do so.
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AFP, Nov 22, 2008
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- A young man believed by followers to be a reincarnation of Buddha has returned to Nepal's jungles to meditate alone, police said Saturday, as scholars cast doubt on his supporters' claims.
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by Jeremy Page, The Times, November 24, 2008
Dharamsala, India -- The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, is considering appointing a regent to lead the Tibetan movement after his death until his reincarnation is old enough to take over.
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IANS, November 20, 2008
Patna, India -- The decades-old ban on entering the Mahabodhi temple complex in Bihar’s Bodh Gaya while wearing shoes has been lifted, an official said Thursday.The move was welcomed and lauded by Buddhist devotees, mostly Tibetans and tourists visiting Bodh Gaya temple, Buddhism’s holiest shrine.
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Zee News, Nov 18, 2008
Shrawasti, India -- This world famous Buddhist site will soon be accessible by air with the airstrip being renovated, official sources said here on Tuesday.
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By L.B.Senaratne, The Sunday Times, Nov 16, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- As a Buddhist country, Sri Lanka is committed to genuine peace, and it is encouraging when other countries recognise this, said the Asgiri Anunayake, the Venerable Panditha Galagama Attahadassi Thera,
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Associated Press, Nov 18, 2008
Dharmsala, India -- Tibetan Buddhist monks light incense sticks in front of a portrait of the Dalai Lama to be placed at the Tibetan Children's Village School in Dharmsala, India, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008.
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By Dhruba Adhikary and Charles McDermid, Asia Times, Nov 15, 2008
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Like any deeply revered religious prophet worthy of his robes, Nepal's "Buddha Boy" has returned from the wilderness to spread enlightenment to the masses.
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ColomboPage News Desk, November 13, 2008
Ampara, Sri Lanka -- The Buddhist monk who went missing from the historical Kudumbigala Temple in Ampara, Eastern Sri Lanka was found this morning.
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PTI, Nov 12, 2008
Gangtok, Sikkim (India) -- A Buddha relic is being brought from Thailand here to adorn the giant 130-foot statue of Lord Buddha coming up at Rabong in Sikkim's South district.
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By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA, AP, Nov 13, 2008
RATANPUR, Nepal -- The teenage boy revered by many as a reincarnation of Buddha sat silently in the jungle as he blessed his devotees Wednesday with a light tap on the head, which they consider the touch of the divine.
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By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA, AFP, Nov 12, 2008
KATMANDU, Nepal -- A teenage boy who many believe is the reincarnation of Buddha has re-emerged from the jungle in southern Nepal, attracting thousands of devotees, officials said Tuesday.
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TNN, Nov 8, 2008
NEW DELHI, India -- One of nation's priceless historical artifacts a Buddha statue believed to be belonging to Vaishali district of Bihar has made its way
back to the country but for a mere three weeks.
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ANI, November 8, 2008
Bodh Gaya, India -- Two Buddhist devotees from Thailand, on a visit to India, have taken -up monk-hood in Bodh Gaya on Saturday.
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AFP, Nov 9, 2008
BAMIYAN, Afghanistan -- "We got him!" screamed Afghan archaeologist Anwar Khan Fayez as he leapt from the pit beneath the towering sandstone cliffs, where the Bamiyan Buddhas once stood.
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Daily Mirror, Nov 8, 2008
Hyogo Prefecture, Japan -- Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka attended the opening ceremony of the Fifth World Summit held in Hyogo Prefecture in Japan on November 02.
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By GAVIN RABINOWITZ, The Associated Press, Nov 7, 2008
THIMPHU, Bhutan -- Tradition in this Buddhist Himalayan kingdom says that the people pay homage to a new king by lining up with the gift of a white scarf. Their new monarch, however, was having none of it.
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By Alistair Scrutton, reuters, Nov 5, 2008
NEW DELHI, India -- Hundreds of leading Tibetan exiles will gather mid-November in Dharamsala for a watershed meeting that could forge a tougher stance on China and pose a political challenge for their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
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By Phurbu Thinley, Phayul, November 3, 2008
Dharamsala, India -- Exiled Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Saturday met with a group of Chinese scholars in which the latter expressed wish that the Tibetan leader could visit Beijing and speak with Chinese leadership.
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By Surya Pratap Singh, ANI, Nov 3, 2008
Bodh Gaya, India -- A group of Buddhist monks in Bodh Gaya conducted prayers for the world peace in a special annual ceremony, which was attended by about 100 visiting Buddhist devotees from Thailand on Sunday.
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Zee News, Nov 3, 2008
Itanagar, India -- An alternative 450 km road from Odalguri in Assam to Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh via Rupa has been made operational for light vehicles for tourist traffic to the border town hosting the 3-day Buddha Mahotsav from November 9.
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By L.B.Senaratne, Daily Mirror, Nov 1, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Anunayake of the Asgiriya Chapter the Venerable Panditha Galagama Atthadassi Thera said that Norway had a poor reputation in Sri Lanka but perhaps they would have realised now that Sri Lanka is committed for genuine peace through the teachings of the Buddha.
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Lanka Daily News, Oct 29, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Mahanayake of the Asgiriya Chapter Most Ven. Udugama Sri Buddharakkithabidhana Thera and Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka will lead a high powered Sri Lankan delegation to the Fifth World Buddhist Summit to be held from October 31 to November 10 in Kobe City, Japan.
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By Vindya Amaranayake, The Nation, Oct 26, 2008
New Delhi, India -- It is the wish of every Buddhist to end his/her samsara journey by attaining nibbana. Yet, they also wish to appraise a living Buddha, before ending their painful and sorrowful journey through life.
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By L.B.Senaratne, Daily Mirror, Oct 27, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- A ten member committee from the Asgiriya and Malwatta Karaka Sangha Sabhas have been appointed by the two Karaka Sabhas to form the nucleus to come up with amendments to the Buddhist Temporalities Act of 1931.
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ANI, October 26, 2008
Rajgir, Bihar (India) -- Hundreds of Buddhist monks from India and abroad gathered in Rajgir in Bihar to pray for world peace.
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By Swarn Deepak Raina, Himvani.com, Oct 27, 2008
Chamba, India -- There’s an unusual silence up here at this place hidden from the world. It’s a one-man civilization, that of a lama - Bawa Sonam Gyatso - the last of Buddhist believers living here guarding the centuries-old Bhanodi Gompa tucked on one side of the Pir Panjal mountains separating mainland Chamba from the Pangi sub-division. It’s a world that has lived in isolation and is now dying in isolation.
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by B K Upmanyu, Merinews, Oct 24, 2008
Dharmsala, India -- UNDER IMMENSE pressure from China, the Indian government on Friday (October 24) barred the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, from visiting Arunachal Pradesh next month.
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Bihar Times, Oct 22, 2008
Patna, Bihar (India) -- Internationally renowned French Buddhist monk and poet of Vietnamese origin Thich Nhat Hanh will be leading a team of 300 Buddhists to Bihar.
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by Athula Bandara, Daily Mirror, Oct 20, 2008
Anuradhapura, India -- An International Buddhist University will be constructed in a thirteen acre land in Anuradhapura at a cost of Rs. 1,300,000 (US$ 26,500).
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by Mahafreed Irani, DNA India, October 17, 2008
Mumbai, India -- His name is Lokamitra, but the person who answers to that name is not the traditional Indian hermit. He is a blue-eyed, fair-skinned foreigner.
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By Rinzin Wangchuk, Kuensel Online, Oct 16, 2008
Timphu, Bhutan -- One hundred and eleven monks and nuns of the Gangteng Buddhist institute were awarded certificates of three levels of qualification by the Prime Minister, Lyonchhen Jigmi Y Thinley, on October 11.
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PTI, Oct 16, 2008
NEW DELHI, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, who underwent a surgery for gallbladder stone removal at a private hospital here, was discharged on Thursday morning.
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TNN, Oct 15, 2008
BANGALORE, India -- B R Ambedkar's January 1955 dream of starting a Buddhist seminary in Bangalore came true on Tuesday. A Buddhist Seminary Vihara and library was inaugurated at the same place he had selected.
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by PK Surendran, DNA India, October 14, 2008
BANGALORE, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama will guide the mummifying of the body of the Mundgod monk, Lobsang Nyima Rinpoche in Karnataka, who is believed to have remained for 18 days in "Thukdham," a stage of life after death where the body lies in meditative state without decomposing, and it is commonly practiced by high lamas of Tibetan Buddhism after physical death.
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by Faiz Rahman Siddiqui & Abhinav Malhotra,TNN, Oct 11, 2008
KANPUR, India -- Amid the renewed focus on conversions post-Kandhmal violence, nearly 10,000 Dalits embraced Buddhism at a Baudh Diksha ceremony in Pukhranya village near Kanpur in the presence of former Himachal Pradesh governor Mata Prasad, Acharya Swami Sandesh Bhalekar and several Buddhist monks from Madhya Pradesh.
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IANS, Oct 13, 2008
New Delhi, India -- India’s nearly eight million Buddhists are not benefiting from the government’s inclusive growth policy to enhance the socio-educational status of minorities, says Lama Chosphel Zotpa, a senior member of the National Commission for Minorities (NCM).
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AFP, Oct 11, 2008
NEW DELHI, India -- Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is in a stable condition after surgery in India to remove gallstones and is likely to be discharged in the next two days, hospital officials said Saturday.
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Sindh Today, Oct 8, 2008
Nagpur, Pakistan -- Over 1.2 million Buddhists from all over the country will attend the 52nd Dhammachakra Pravartan Din function here Thursday to commemorate the historic event when Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar led thousands of his Mahar community into Buddhism.
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by PK Surendran, DNA India, October 7, 2008
BANGALORE, India -- The body of an 80-year-old Mundgod monastery monk who died three weeks ago has shown no signs of decomposition.
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By Kinley Dorji & Rinzin Wangchuk, Kuensel Online, Oct 8, 2008
History is relived with historical monument restored
Timphu, Bhutan -- The Phobjikha valley is filled with the sounds of sacred prayers as the reincarnations of Terton Pema Lingpa Peling launch the drubchhen ceremonies for the consecration of the Gangteng Sang Nga Choling on October 1.
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The Associated Press, Oct 7, 2008
Mumbai, India -- The Dalai Lama underwent a second medical checkup in as many months Tuesday and doctors cleared him to resume foreign travel, said a spokesman for the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.
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By Senaka Weeraratna, Asian Tribune, Oct 8, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Germany celebrated her national day on October 3. The Germany Embassy marked the occasion with a reception recalling the names of pioneering spirits who had contributed towards strengthening the links between Sri Lanka and Germany, at a leading hotel in Colombo on October 7.
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AP, Oct 6, 2008
NEW DELHI, India -- The Dalai Lama will undergo a second medical checkup in as many months while he recovers from exhaustion, a spokesman for the Tibetan spiritual leader said Monday.
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by Shobhan Saxena ,TNN, Oct 2, 2008
New Delhi, India -- As bombs spill blood on streets and hate preachers torch churches in some dark corners of India, the country is slowly and nervously warming up for the next general elections, unsure of the forces that will be at work when the nation goes to polls. Though the election drama in India never lacks colour, adding some extra zing this time will be Buddhist bhikshus in ochre robes.
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by Anubha Sawhney Joshi, The Times of India, Oct 2, 2008
New Delhi, India -- He was born a Hindu. But despite belonging to an educated family, Bhavan Nath Paswan had to live a life of shame and ridicule. He was a chamar, lowest of the low according to the Hindu caste system. Paswan remembers the years of suffering.
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by Jaskiran Chopra,TNN, Sept 30, 2008
DEHRADUN, India -- The smiling face of the monk who believes the "real miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment" can make people easily trust his words.
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The Buddhist Channel, Sept 30, 2008
Bangalore, India -- DHARMA SUBHASHITA (Thubten Lekshey Ling) Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Meditation and Study Center (dharmasubhashita.org) is organizing the empowerment of Vajrasatva (dorje sempa) and teachings from "Bardo Thodrol" (popularly known as The Tibetan Book of the Dead) by Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche (Khenpo Guru) on October 3rd to 5th at Bangalore.
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Phayul, Sept 30, 2008
Dharamshala, India -- “Ni Hao”, (Ch: How are you?) said the Dalai Lama to a group of around 600 Taiwanese Buddhists who had gathered at the courtyard of the Thekchen Choeling Tsukhlakhang to listen to his teachings.
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by Jyoti Lal Chowdhury, Organiser, Sept 28, 2008
SILCHAR, India -- Subtle moves are on for conversion of Buddhist Chakmas in certain areas of Mizoram and Tripura and also to take away their land for construction of churches. “These kinds of activities have been going on for sometime,” alleged Shri Basant Kumar Chakma.
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Express News Service, Sept 28, 2008
Kolkata, India -- Industrialist Dr B K Modi resigned from the post of president of the Mahabodhi Society of India on Saturday. Announcing his decision during the annual general meeting of the Buddhist organisation held at the society’s headquarters, Modi cited personal reasons for his resignation.
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ANI, September 25, 2008
Dharamsala, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama, made his first public appearance after leaving hospital, as he began a three-day spiritual teaching discourse in Dharamsala today.
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by Renuka Narayanan, Hindustan Times, September 25, 2008
New Delhi, India -- The best-known Buddhist teacher in the West is finally here in the land of the Buddha. Thich Nhat Hanh (born 1926), now based in his ashram, Plum Village, in the South of France, said, “I am a Buddhist free of Buddhism,” to HT in an exclusive interview.
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Reuters, Sept 24, 2008
NEW DELHI, India -- The Dalai Lama has recovered from abdominal pains that sent him to hospital last month but is cutting down on travel, an aide said on Wednesday, even as U.S. President George W. Bush called to inquire about his health.
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IANS, Sept 25, 2008
Dharamsala, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader Karmapa Ugyen Trinley Dorjee, who was rescued along with 30 of his followers from snowbound Himachal Pradesh's Lahaul and Spiti district, reached Delhi Wednesday from Leh in Jammu and Kashmir, his aide said.
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Sify News, September 22, 2008
Assam, India -- Hundreds of Buddhist villagers in Assam performed a unique funeral ritual for more than 800 endangered storks that perished last week after a 200-year-old banyan tree in which the birds were nesting fell.
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The Asian Age, Sept 21, 2008
Chandigarh, India -- Indian Army helicopters carried out sustained air operations to rescue Ugyen Trinley Dorji, the 17th Karmapa and incarnate spiritual leader of the Karma Kagyu, the most prosperous of the four Tibetan Buddhist sects.
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The Telegraph, Sept 18, 2008
Guwahati, India -- The Buddhists of Banglung Shyam village in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district will hold a shradh ceremony for the hundreds of Asian openbill storks who died there on Monday night.
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By T. Farook Thajudeen, Daily Mirror, Sept 18, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Sri Lanka Government should be given a place in the governing body of the Mahabodhi Society of India said Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva at the unveiling of the statue of Anagarika Dharmapala at Narahenpita Junction yesterday.
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The Daily Times, Sept 15, 2008
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- The almost century-old Peshawar Museum is unique for displaying the most important and world’s largest collection of architectural pieces.
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By L. B. Senaratne, The Sunday Times, Sept 14, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The government of Norway is in discussions with Buddhist clergy in connection with a grant for building a Buddhist academy at Pallekelle. The academy will be part of the International Buddhist Centre of the Sri Dalada Maligawa in Kandy.
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ANI, September 13, 2008
Shimla, India -- Tibetan exiles in Shimla offered prayers for the long life of their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, today.
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AFP, Sept 13, 2008
DHARAMSHALA, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has cancelled his tour next month of Germany and Switzerland for health reasons, his office said Saturday.
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By Quintus Perera, Asian Tribune, Sept 14, 2008
Sri Lanka observes Binara Full Moon Poya Day
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Today is the Binara Full Moon Poya Day. There are four Pasaloswaka Poyas - Esala, Nikini, Binara and Wap and it is a four month period and the period in India it has been know as rainy season, specially where Lord Buddha lived.
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ColomboPage News Desk, September 10, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa has instructed the Secretary of the Ministry of Justice, Suhada Gamlath to allocate a separate room in every court for the Buddhist monks who attend court hearings.
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The Frontier Post, Sept 9, 2008
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Swat, once the pride of tourism in the region and rightly called Pakistan’s matching response to Switzerland no more presents the same picture.
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By Kelum Bandara and Yohan Perera, Daily Mirror, Sept 10, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- JHU parliamentarian Ven. Ellawala Medhananda Thera told parliament yesterday that a Buddhist monk should stand up for the Buddha Dhamma or only in the presence of a senior monk.
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The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka), Sept 8, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The long arm of the law stretching itself sternly to deal with wrongdoing irrespective of the positions of the persons involved has created a furore in Sri Lanka today.
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AFP, Sept 10, 2008
DHARAMSHALA, India -- The Dalai Lama returned to his northern Indian home-in-exile Tuesday after recovering from a stomach illness that put him in hospital for four days, an aide of the Tibetan leader said.
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By S.S.Selvanayagam, The Daily Mirror, Sept 9, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Supreme Court yesterday ordered the immediate release of Rajagiriya Welikadewatte Temple’s Chief Incumbent Ven Pannala Pangnaloka Thera who was remanded last week over a sound pollution case.
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By Janaka Perera, Asian Tribune, Sept 8, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The petitioners in the Digawapi land allocation case have prepared a counter affidavit to be submitted to the Supreme Court when the case comes up for hearing on Tuesday September. 9. The case concerns the alleged infringement of the rights of Sri Lanka's Buddhists, especially those residing in the Digawapiya area in the East. The counter affidavit is in response to an affidavit filed by some of the respondents.
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ColomboPage News Desk, September 8, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Chief Monk (Maha Nayaka) of Asgiriya Chapter, Ven. Udugama Buddharakkitha Thero has recently stated that nobody should be above the law and order including the Buddhist monks.
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Lanka Newspapers, September 8, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Buddhism and the history of the Sri Lankan State are, as is well known, inseparable. Besides the spiritual guidance provided to the people, tremendous are the sacrifices that the Buddhist monks have made to protect this country they did not hesitate even to make the supreme sacrifice, especially during the colonial times to prevent the disintegration of the nation. So, they came to occupy a special place in the Sri Lankan society.
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By T. Farook Thajudeen, Daily Mirror, Sept 5, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- A Colombo Magistrate remanded a Buddhist monk and two other suspects till September 9 for allegedly causing damage to a Hindu kovil at Grandpass on Sept 4.
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AFP, Sept 1, 2008
MUMBAI, India -- The Dalai Lama was discharged from a Mumbai hospital on Monday, four days after the Tibetan spiritual leader was admitted with stomach pain, but he still needs plenty of rest, an aide said.
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JHU News, September 1, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- A Buddhist Convention was held on last weekend calling upon the authorities to take legal action against the unlawful establishment of Christian churches in various parts of the country. The meeting was convened to alert the Buddhist public to the increasing threat of unethical Christian conversions.
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by Ashwini Bhatia, Associated Press, August 28 2008
Dharamsala, India -- The Dalai Lama is suffering from exhaustion and has cancelled two planned international trips to undergo medical tests. The 73-year-old Nobel peace prize winner had been "experiencing some discomfort in the past couple of days", a statement from his office said.
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The Sunday Times, Aug 24, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The 4th National Conference on Buddhist Studies will be held on Saturday, August 30 and Sunday, 31 at the All Ceylon Buddhist Women's Congress, No. 400, Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Colombo 7.
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by Rohan Lalith Jayetilleke, The Buddhist Channel, Aug 25, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Prince Siddartha, having renounced worldly life at the age of twenty-nine, first walked from Kapilavastu (presently Tilaurakot, 26 km north-east of Lumbini, Nepal) to Rajagaha and wandered through a great part of India until he reached Buddha Gaya at the age of 35 and attained Enlightenment.
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Albawaba.com, Aug 16, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Few places on earth match Sri Lanka for the pervasive sense of an ancient culture. The island’s rock monuments are central testaments to this culture and crucial to feeling its power, and they should be the bedrock of every visitor’s cultural itinerary.
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The Sunday Times, Aug 17, 2008
Kandy, Sri Lanka -- “Disi Ru Pelahara”, a photographic exhibition and documentary film show on the heritage of Buddhist art in Sri Lanka, comes to an end today at the Queen’s Hotel Kandy.
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Press Trust of India, August 12, 2008
New Delhi, India -- India and China will hold the next round of boundary talks soon but the lingering dispute over the Buddhist enclave of Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh is preventing efforts by the two countries to "cross the rubicon," National Security Adviser M K Narayanan has said.
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by Virendra Singh Rawat, Business Standard, August 13, 2008
New Delhi, India -- To boost tourism and regional development in Uttar Pradesh, the state government has floated the idea of an international airport at Kushinagar and improving infrastructure on the Buddhist circuit.
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IANS, August 11, 2008
Patna, India -- The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has agreed to fund the construction of 481.20 km of four-lane roads for Bihar’s Buddhist tourism circuit, officials said Monday.
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Arirang News, July 31, 2008
Jikji Peak, Pakistan -- The rough trail up to the 6,235 m peak kept it out of reach for many climbers. But after failing once, a month ago, a group of Korean mountain rescue climbers from North Chungcheong Province beat the trail and reached the summit.
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By Vishal Gulati, IANS, July 26, 2008
Shimla, India -- Bad roads and poor air connectivity are hampering tourism in the tribal districts of Himachal Pradesh, popularly known as the Buddhist circuit.
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IANS, July 24, 2008
Dharamsala, India -- The Indian government has refused to allow Tibetan spiritual leader the Karmapa Lama, the only major monk reincarnate recognised by both the Dalai Lama and China, to visit areas close to the China border ahead of the Beijing Olympics, his aides said here Thursday.
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By Ugyen Penjore, Kuensel Online, July 24, 2008
Bhutan's new constitution signifies its transformation from a dynastic monarchy to a constitutional democracy
Timphu, Bhutan -- The Constitution of the Kingdom of Bhutan came alive on the morning of July 18. As His Majesty the King signed the first copy of the Constitution, using a traditional pen dipped in golden ink, under the gaze of Lord Buddha at the Kunrey of the Trashichhodzong, Bhutanese across the country watched in silence.
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By Jigmet Angchuk, ANI, July 23, 2008
Sumda, Ladakh (India) -- The World Monument Fund (WMF) has undertaken restoration work of Sumda Chun, a monastery atop a hill overlooking River Zanskar in Ladakh.
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By RAVI NESSMAN, Associated Press, July 21, 2008
KANDY, Sri Lanka -- A cannon booms and the crack of a dozen whips pierce the warm night. The colorful, pulsating Esala Perahera procession has begun.
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by Khin Maung Soe Min, DVB, Jul 21, 2008
Aizawl, India -- Buddhist migrants from Burma working in the Aizawl district of India’s Mizoram state have complained of being pressured to convert to Christianity by their employers and local pastors.
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by Deepika SHETTY, Asian Pacific Post, July 17, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Seven out of 10 people in Sri Lanka are Sinhalese and predominantly Buddhist. Buddha statues are to Sri Lankan tourism what castles are to Scotland - you just can’t get enough of them.
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By JYOTI THOTTAM, Time Magazine, July 17, 2008
New Delhi, India -- Neha Mohan was 24 years old and living the new Indian dream, with a job at a New Delhi marketing firm that hitched her wagon to the country's chugging economy. And then she let it all go.
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By Gyeltshen, Kuensel Online, July 12, 2008
Timphu, Bhutan -- His Holiness the Je Khenpo awarded certificates to 21 Dzongkha lecturers from the colleges under the royal university of Bhutan (RUB), who completed their master’s degree in Buddhist philosophy.
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ANI, July 11, 2008
New Delhi, India -- India today introduced a set of two postage stamps to commemorate bilateral relations with China depicting two famous Buddhist temples, the Mahabodhi Temple of India and the White Horse Temple of China.
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Associated Press, July 9, 2008
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Swat, once the pride of tourism in the region and rightly called Pakistan's matching response to Switzerland, is no more presents the same picture.
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The Island, July 9, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- High Commissioner for Pakistan in Sri Lanka Shahzad A. Chaudhry yesterday in an interview with "The Traveller" said that the Ghandara heritage in Pakistan is now part of world heritage and we must preserve, protect and exhibit the archaeological findings of Lord Buddha.
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By R. M. Ratnayake, Sunday Observer, July 6, 2008
Kandy, Sri Lanka -- A series of religious ceremonies will be held at the Sri Subodharama Buddhist Centre today and on July 9. The ceremonial opening of the newly built Meditation Retreat Centre at Ambuluwawa, Gampola will take place today at 2 p.m.
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by Ravi PERERA, Lanka Daily News, July 7, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The week before last, on the sizzling streets of Colombo, we were witness to the depressing scene of protesting Buddhist monks running hither and thither. They were attempting to escape the effect of tear-gas used by the Police in a bid to disperse them.
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CBC News, July 6, 2008
Dharmsala, India -- The Dalai Lama marked his 73rd birthday on Sunday without the usual fanfare of a public party.
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by Mohit Joshi, ANI, July 6, 2008
Dharamsala, India -- Buddhists took out a candlelight rally in Dharamsala on July 5 against the Chinese repressive policies in Tibet.
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by DANIK SAMBAD, Bengali newspaper, June 25, 2008
Agartala, Tripura, (INDIA) -- Three structures of Dhamma Dipa International Buddhist Academy at Manu Bankul were burned down at approximately three o'clock this afternoon.
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By Deepika Shetty, Asian Pacific Post, July 1 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Given that seven out of 10 people in Sri Lanka are Sinhalese and predominantly Buddhist, Buddha statues are to Sri Lankan tourism what castles are to Scotland – you just can’t get enough of them.
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By Ashish Goel, Asian News International , Jul 3, 2008
Dehradun, India -- Buddhist Temple at Clement Town in Dehradun is attracting tourists from all over the country due to its matchless wall paintings in pure gold colour, meticulously depicting in events in the life of Lord Buddha.
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by Archana Srivastava,TNN, Jul 2, 2008
LUCKNOW, India -- The second phase of the Buddhist circuit, an important component of the Uttar Pradesh tourist sector, is yet to take off as the Central government has not appointed a consultant for it.
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Lanka Everything, July 1, 2008
London, UK -- The chief incumbent of the Birmingham Buddhist Maha Vihara, the President of the Midlands International Buddhist Association in the U.K., and the President of the International Buddhist Relief Organisation (I.B.R.O.) attached to the United Nations, Ven.Dr.Witharandeniye Kassapa is being honourably felicitated by President of Sri Lanka Mr.Mahinda Rajapakse and other eminent ministers of Sri Lanka government on 06th of June 2008 at the temple trees.
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IANS, July 1, 2008
Patna, India -- The construction of three Buddhist monasteries and a school have been stopped in Bodh Gaya in Bihar for violating the Master Plan, an official said Tuesday.
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By Tashi Dema, Kuensel Online, June 30, 2008
Tangsibji, Bhutan -- Monks have always played an important role in Bhutanese society. But Nawang Rabsel of Tangsibji, in Trongsa, is taking that role a little further.
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PTI, June 29, 2008
ITANAGAR, India -- With an aim to boost tourism and handicraft industry in Tawang, a daily helicopter service between the Buddhist centre in Arunachal Pradesh and Guwahati was flagged off on Sunday.
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By Janaka Perera, Asian Tribune, June 28, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's Central Cultural Fund Chairman Professor Sudarshan Seneviratne this week lauded Pakistan for her immense contribution towards the protection and preservation of Gandhara's ancient Buddhist cultural heritage.
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TNN, Jun 24, 2008
RAIPUR, India -- Tension gripped a village in Rajnandgaon district of Chhattisgarh on Monday following the desecration of a statue of Baba Saheb Ambedkar by unidentified miscreants.
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By Walter Jayawardhana, Lanka Daily News, June 23, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Carol singers from Ferguson Girls High School in Ratnapaura held a special performance of singing Poson Carols for the President of the country ,Mahinda Rajapaksa at his official residence at the Temple Trees.
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Press Trust of India, June 20, 2008
Itanagar, India -- The teachings of Buddha is like a medicine without an expiry date and one can use them to become happy anytime anywhere, said a young monk here.
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The Hindu, June 23, 2008
NEW DELHI, India -- Union Minister of State of Commerce and Power Jairam Ramesh presented a cheque for US$200,000 (about Rs.80 lakh) to the trustees of the sacred Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon on Sunday.
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Asiantribune.com, June 18, 2008
Posan Message by President Mahinda Rajapaksa
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By Janaka Perera, Asian Tribune, June 18, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lankan Buddhists commemorate the arrival in this country of Arahat Mahinda with the message of the Dhamma. Yet Gandhara – the pinnacle of Buddhist Civilization at the time Venerable Mahinda's father, Emperor Ashoka, ruled a greater part of the Indian sub-continent – seems to have received little attention among the majority of Buddhists here. It is from Gandhara that Buddhism spread to Sri Lanka and other Asian countries during Ashoka's reign.
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Statesman News Service, June 16, 2008
GANGTOK, Sikkim (India) -- Over 5,000 monks congregated today to observe the silver jubilee celebration of the Karma Shri Nalanda Institute, an institute for Buddhist higher studies institute located at Rumtek about 24 km from Gangtok. The institute is affiliated to the Sampuranand Sanskrit University, Varanasi.
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Pakistan Daily, June 16, 2008
Peshawar, Pakistan -- There are 74 Buddha stories carved in on stone that are on display in the Peshawar Museum describing all the episodes of His life from the time of his birth to death and such a large number of stories does not exist in any museum of Pakistan, the former director of the Peshawar Museum and retired chairman of the Archaeology and Fine Arts Department of the Peshawar University Professor Fidaullah Sehrai said.
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APP, June 16, 2008
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Steps including preservation and promotion of ancient cultural heritage of Gandhara through maintaining its identity, will definitely lure a large number of tourists from across the globe.
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by Prof. R.N. De Fonseka, Lanka Daily News, June 17, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka is blessed with several mountain or mountain ranges; Sri Pada Piduruthalagala and the Knuckles Range are just few of them. Some mountains are associated with deities and other supernatural beings hovering above the clouds and these have being the admiration of humans.
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Daily Times, June 16, 2008
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- There are 74 Buddha stories carved in stone, which are on display in Peshawar Museum, describing all happenings in his life.
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India Post, June 15.2008
Leh, Ladakh (India) -- Leh is a beautiful barren desert situated at 3,505 meters above sea level in lap of the Great Himalayas. Leh is the main tourist gateway, its the largest town in the Ladakh region. It is ideal destination for nature lovers and adventure freaks.
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Express News Service, June 16 2008
KENDRAPARA, India -- For an archaeological hotspot, Langudi wears the tag of obscurity. Located in Dharmasala tehsil 40 km from here, it’s a sleepy hamlet with a sparse population.
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By Athula Bandara, The Sunday Times, June 15, 2008
Thanthirimale, Sri Lanka -- Spreading over an area of about 200 acres, the rocky terrain of Thanthirimale has a scenic beauty that captivates all who come upon it. Located in the midst of thick jungle, just 41 km from Anuradhapura, on its north west lies the famous Wilpattu park.
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by Anil Gulati, Merinews, June 15, 2008
Sanchi is now included in the list of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation's heritage sites of the world. Emperor Asoka laid the foundation of this religious centre, a remarkable sense of Buddhist art and architecture..
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By Lenard R. Mahaarachchi, Sunday Times, June 15, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- This week, Sri Lankan Buddhists celebrate Poson Poya. It is no exaggeration to say that the Lankan culture and Poson Poya are synonymous. History says it was on a Poson Poya day that Arahath Mahinda, son of the great King Asoka of India, and a group of missionaries came to Sri Lanka to spread the word of the Buddha.
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The News, June 15, 2008
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- A delegation of Korean Buddhists headed by senior monk Jeon Woon Deok Saturday urged the Pakistan government to initiate measures for protecting and restoring Buddha site in Takhtbhai and make it the biggest place for Buddha worship.
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by Nimal Wijesinghe, Lanka Daily News, June 10, 2008
ANURADHAPURA, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka has decreed that no commercial propaganda or advertising is allowed in the Mihintale sacred area during the Poson Religious festive season.
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by Louise Gray, The Telegraph (UK), June 6, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- It was most auspicious that after three months spent working for a tree conservation society in Sri Lanka, my last trip was to visit the country's most famous tree.
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by Pranava K Chaudhary,TNN, Jun 8, 2008
Bihar, India -- A throwback to the ancient and a vision for the future. That's how the present is conceived. The proposed Nalanda International University (NIU) will play a vital role in reviving the ancient glory of Nalanda and spreading Buddha's message of international peace and universal brotherhood across the world in the coming years, chief minister Nitish Kumar said in Patna recently.
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Daily Mirror, June 9, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Prime Minister was invited to attend the Fifth World Buddhist Summit which will be held in Kobe, Japan in November 2008.
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By Pburbu Thinley, Phayul, June 5, 2008
Dharamsala, India -- Tibetans spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama presided over a special prayer session dedicated for the victims of last month’s devastating earthquake that rattled Southwest China’s Sichuan province here this morning.
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The Times of India, June 1, 2008
NEW DELHI, India -- India will repair Myanmar’s famous Shwedagon Pagoda, or Golden Pagoda, which was damaged by cyclone Nargis on May 3. This offer was made during Sunday’s pledging conference where around 52 countries promised rehabilitation and reconstruction aid to Myanmar.
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By Himal Kotelawala, The Sunday Times, June 1, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka is considering some diplomatic action regarding cases where a horse named ‘Buddhist Monk’ and another named ‘Buddah’ had run in two separate horse races in Yarmouth, England and Tramore, Ireland respectively, last week.
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by Salman Rashid, Daily Times, May 30, 2008
Taxila, Pakistan -- With the defeat of the Huns in 528, Taxila attempted to make a comeback. But forsaken by its upper classes, Taxila perhaps became home to rustics from surrounding settlements and began its final journey into the long night.
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by Piya, The Hindustan Times, May 29, 2008
Lumbini, Nepal -- Located a short distance from the India-Nepal border at Sonauli, Lumbini is easily accessible from India by road, train or air from India.
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The Telegraph of Nepal, May 25, 2008
Kathmandu, Nepal -- The Sri Lankan Embassy in Nepal in close cooperation with the Nepal-Sri Lanka Cultural, Social and Economic Forum May 25, 08, organized a highly academic program in Kathmandu on the topic “Pluralism in the Buddha’s Teachings: From Exclusive Nibanna to inclusive Vimutti”.
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by Divakara Mohotti, Lanka Daily News, May 26, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- "The Kalutara Palatota Gangaramaya is over a century
old." "We had dealings with the temple for several years. With the completion
of the new cetiya it would be a beautiful scenic holy place," said Mahanayaka
of Kotte Chapter Ven. Bellana Gnanawimala Nayaka Thera.
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The Rising Nepal, May 26, 2008
United Nations -- Nepal's Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala has said that the message of the Buddha has also been reflected in the sprit of the UN Charter.
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Statesman News Service, May 25, 2008
GANGTOK, Sikkim (India) -- Tibetans living in exile in Gangtok today mourned and offered prayers for those killed in the recent earthquake in China.
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Patna Daily, May 24, 2008
Patna, India -- Buddhist Priests Fear 'Hinduization' of Mahabodhi Temple. Photo by Anupam SinghThe president of the All India Bodh Gaya Mahabodhi Vichar Mukti Andolan Committee Bhadant Anand, at a press conference in Patna on Saturday, accused the state government of trying to 'Hinduize' the Mahabodhi Temple by setting up Hindu temples within the premises – a charge denied by the temple committee.
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IANS, May 21, 2008
Patna, India -- Dalit leader and Republican Party of India (RPI) MP Ramdas Athavale has come out in support of monks demanding Buddhist control over the Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya, Buddhism’s holiest shrine.
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ENS, May 21 2008
SALEPUR, India -- Buddhayan, a leading Buddhist cultural organisation, observed Buddha Jayanti in a different way here at the famous Buddhist site Lalitagiri on Tuesday.
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by Jayaweera Sugathapala, Lanka Daily News, May 20, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The historic Vidyananda Temple premises (Nittabodhi Viharaya) has been declared a sacred area under the instructions of President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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by Shirley WIJESINGHE, Lanka Daily News, May 20, 2008
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- The Amadahara Vesak Sadaham Kalapaya (Vesak Zone) organised by the Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd (Lake House) and sponsored by Hayleys Consumer Products Ltd. was declared open yesterday evening by ANCL Chairman Bandula Padmakumara and Hayleys Consumer Products Ltd. Deputy Chairman Mohan Pandithage.
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By U.Tilakaratne, Daily Mirror, May 20, 2008
Chennai, India -- The Vesak procession, a part of the Wesak celebrations in Chennai organized by the Sri Lanka Mahabodhi Society for the eighth year, was held on Saturday evening in a grand way.
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Lanka Everything, May 19, 2008
Tamil Naidu, India -- Dr. Jayalath Jayawardena MP calling on the Most Venerable Udugama Sri Buddharakkitha Mahanayake thera of Asgiriya yesterday said that the construction work of three Buddhist monasteries in South India were in progress.
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Statesman News Service, May 19, 2008
SILIGURI, India -- Buddha Jayanti was celebrated amidst fanfare in Siliguri today. The day was a special one for the devout Buddists residing all over Darjeeling district and the celebrations were observed at the number of stupas in the district.
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The Nation (Pakistan), May 20, 2008
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Sri Lankan High Commission organised a ceremony to mark the 'Vesak Day' here on Monday in which a number of ambassadors from Buddhist countries also participated to perform the religious rituals.
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Odisha today, May 20, 2008
Bhubaneswar, Orissa (India) -- Orissa Chapter of Mahabodhi Society of India on Monday observed 2252nd birth anniversary of Lord Buddha amid host of cultural and religious activities. This occasion marks three most important events in the life of Lord Buddha-his advent, enlightenment and nirvana, 2,500 years back.
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The Associated Press, May 20, 2008
KATMANDU, Nepal -- At least 20 Buddhist pilgrims were missing after an overcrowded bus crashed off a mountain road and plunged into a river in western Nepal.
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The Telegraph of India, May 20, 2008
Jamshedpur, India -- The 2552nd birth anniversary of Gautam Buddha was observed religiously in the steel city today.
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Asiantribune.com, May 18, 2008
Chennai, India -- Vesak the holiest day in Buddhism celebrated for the birth, Enlightenment, and the death of Lord Buddha. This holiest day was celebrated in Chennai at the Deputy High Commission for Sri Lanka in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
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The Sunday Times, May 18, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Security in Colombo city has once again become a matter of grave concern, following Friday’s bomb blast in the Fort. Consequently, Vesak celebrations this year are expected to be on a low-key, especially in the more densely populated areas, while religious practices associated with the Vesak season will be observed as usual islandwide.
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IANS, May 17, 2008
Patna, India -- The Mahabodhi temple in Bihar’s Bodh Gaya, Buddhism’s holiest shrine, has got a governing panel after a gap of eight months. The Bihar government has issued a notification to form the new panel of the Bodh Gaya Temple Management Committee (BGTMC) late Friday, officials said here Saturday.
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by Ananda Kannangara, Sunday Observer, May 18, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The seventh “Amadahara Vesak Sadaham Kalapaya”, conducted by the Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd (Lake House) in collaboration with the Hayleys Consumer Products Ltd will begin in Colombo tomorrow at 6.00 p.m. under the patronage of Media Minister Anura Priyadharshana Yapa.
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by Amna R Ali, The National (UAE), May 13. 2008
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan’s cultural heritage is under threat from the construction of a massive hydropower dam that will submerge thousands of Buddhist relics and ancient rock carvings across the riverbanks and terraces of the upper Indus River valley.
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The Mirror, May 12, 2008
Kathmandu, Nepal -- Buddhist nuns were among 600 female protesters rounded up as police cracked down on anti-China demos in Nepal yesterday.
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By J. Tilakaratne, Daily Mirror, May 14, 2008
Chennai, India -- The Vesak celebrations in Chennai organized by the Sri Lanka Mahabodhi Society and the Sri Lankan Deputy High Commissioner’s office in South India will include a Sil campaign with the participation of Sinhala and Tamil devotees.
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The Times of India, May 14, 2008
BANGALORE, India -- "A lotus grows out of mud, yet it remains unaffected, unstained by the dirty, stagnant water. You are lay people; you live in the world and yet you can lead a spiritual life. It is spiritual values that bring real beauty, colour and fragrance to human life. Without spiritual values, human life is like a flower tree without flowers!" So preached Gautam Buddha more than 2,500 years ago.
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The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka), May 11, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The chief incumbent of Colombo’s Gangaramaya Temple, Ven. Galaboda Gnanissara Thera, has strongly criticised the Government’s decision to increase the electricity tariff at religious institutions, and has called for remedial action.
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by Dharma Sri Abeyratne, Lanka Daily News, May 9, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Education Ministry has made arrangements to appoint qualified persons to teach Buddhism in Government schools.
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By MATTHEW PENNINGTON, AP, May 5, 2008
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The United Nations on Saturday was investigating reports that a controlled explosion of old ordnance has caused more damage to one of the famed Bamiyan Buddha statues that were destroyed by the Taliban seven year ago.
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by Ravi Teja Sharma, TNN, May 8, 2008
NEW DELHI, India -- Thousands of years after the teachings of Buddha spread across the world, his followers are hot-footing it back to India. And cashing in on the opportunity is a bunch of travel business entrepreneurs, serenading the visitors to the land of the Buddha.
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By Samten Yeshi, Kuensel Online, May 5, 2008
The eternal debate between classical and functional education
Timphu, Bhutan -- In 1999, when a degree programme was introduced at the institute of language and cultural studies (ILCS), Semtokha, Sanskrit was introduced as part of its syllabus.
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The Mayo News, May 5, 2008
Murrisk, Nepal -- THE SUN suddenly broke through a mist-shrouded Croagh Patrick (765m) shortly after 3pm on Saturday afternoon last as Namgyal Damdul, the chairman of the Tibetan Community Ireland, set off from the base at Murrisk, carrying a symbolic freedom torch.
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By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times, April 28, 2008
Melting glaciers threaten valley in Himalayas
PUNAKHA, Bhutan -- High in the Himalayas, above this peaceful valley where farmers till a patchwork of emerald-green fields, an icy lake fed by melting glaciers waits to become a "tsunami from the sky."
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IANS, April 23, 2008
Patna, India -- The development of Nalanda, the ancient seat of learning in Bihar, will help improve ties between India and China, an expert has said. “Nalanda’s proper development will help improve India-China ties due to its importance in both countries,” said R. Pant, vice chancellor of Nav Nalanda Mahavihar.
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Daily Mirror, April 16, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- In the early 1900s Tibetan Ven. S Mahinda visited Sri Lanka during the time Sri Lankan patriots were launching the freedom struggle to gain independence for Sri Lanka from the British rule.
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By Subhash K. Jha, IANS, April 17, 2008
Mumbai, India -- Model-turned-actor Kelly Dorji’s presence at a Tibetan world-peace rally last week surprised many, but the actor with a Tibetan connection is unperturbed and says he will always support the cause.
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MSN India, April 11, 2008
Itanagar, India -- In what could raise the hackles of China, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has been invited to inaugurate a hospital at Tawang.
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Telegraph India, April 9, 2008
Bodh Gaya, India -- Plan to demolish illegal constructions around Maha Bodhi Temple has suffered a setback, yet again.
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Thaindian (IANS), April 10, 2008
Dharamsala, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama reached Japan Thursday on his way to the US. The Karmapa Lama, the only major monk reincarnate recognised by both the Tibetan leader and China, is also set to visit the US. Several dozen Japanese devotees and Tibetans were present at the Narita airport near Tokyo to welcome the Dalai Lama, a spokesman for the Tibetan government-in-exile said.
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Express India, April 9, 2008
New Delhi, India -- Amid international spotlight on the Tibetan issue, the 17th Karmapa is set to visit the US in May on his first trip abroad since his daring escape to India in 2000.
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By Das Miriyagalla, The Island, April 6, 2008
Progress made during the last Fifty years
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The practice of meditation is considered by followers of several religions as a meritorious activity. Even among such religious activities it is generally considered that meditation is more virtuous than other practices such as donations, alms- givings, adherence to moral precepts and rituals.
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By Janaka Perera, Asian Tribune, April 7, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Buddhism is being recognized as the fastest growing religion in Western societies both in terms of new converts and more so in terms of friends of Buddhism, who seek to study and practice various aspects of Buddhism.
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ANI News, March 31, 2008
Bodhgaya, India -- Scores of Buddhist monks here today offered prayers at the Mahabodhi Temple and held a peaceful protest to show solidarity with Tibetans in China.
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IANS, March 31, 2008
New Delhi, India -- To express solidarity with the Tibetan struggle for freedom, India football captain Bhaichung Bhutia has declined to be a part of the 2008 Beijing Olympics torch relay in India.
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IANS, Mar 28, 2008
Patna, India -- Buddhist monks are upset with the Bihar government for 'deliberately' delaying the formation of a panel for running the Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya, Buddhism's holiest shrine, and want control to be vested with Buddhists.
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AFP, March 29, 2008
NEW DELHI, India -- Tibetan spiritual icon the Dalai Lama on Saturday said he wanted more time "for preparation of my next life" and looked forward to the day he could hand over his political role to younger leaders.
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Daily Mirror, March 29, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Ambalangoda Deshapremi Sanvidanaya at the invitation of Minister of Cultural Affairs Minister Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena and at the request of the venerable high priest of the Seruwila Raja Maha Viharaya, has launched a project to collect Buddhist books including Tamil ones for the library of the Viharaya.
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IANS, March 25, 2008
Lucknow, India -- Decks are being cleared for the installation of the world's tallest Buddha statue in Kushinagar town of eastern Uttar Pradesh.
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Agence France-Presse, March 25, 2008
New Delhi, India -- EXILED spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has reiterated a threat to resign as leader of Tibet's exiles if there are more violent anti-Chinese protests inside or outside China.
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By Jigment Angchuk Nubra, ANI News service, March 27, 2008
Ladakh, India -- A two-year-old boy, Thubstan Nawang has been identified as the reincarnation of the Indian Buddhist saint, Kushok Bakula Rinpoche.
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Lanka Business Online, March 25, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka is maintaining a diplomatic silence on the recent Chinese crackdown on protests in Buddhist Tibet as China is one of its main arms suppliers in the war against Tamil Tiger separatists, analysts say.
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By Emily Wax, Washington Post, March 26, 2008
As Fighting Flares in Civil War, Key Buddhist Shuns Nonviolence
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Draped in his burnt-orange robe, Athurliye Rathana strolled onto the veranda of a posh hotel here one recent evening and an entire wedding party adorned in fine silks knelt as one, in a gesture of respect and honor to one of the country's best-known monks.
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by Kalpit Parajuli, Asia News, March 25, 2008
Buddhist monks in Nepal join pro-Tibet demonstrators in the streets. They criticise the government and Nepali Maoists, too complacent vis-à-vis Beijing. More than 10,000 Tibetan monks have found refugee in the Himalayan nation.
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By STAN SESSER, Wall Street Journal, March 22, 2008
THIMPHU, Bhutan -- As Bhutan sets about measuring the kingdom's happiness levels, one group might not be smiling: smokers.
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AFP, March 24, 2008
THIMPHU, Bhutan -- For years, the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan boasted that it was mostly concerned with Gross National Happiness -- and now it's really going to try to actually measure it.
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Indo-Asian News Service, March 21, 2008
New Delhi, India -- The Dalai Lama arrived in New Delhi on Friday evening for a week of Buddhist discourses, hours after a group of Tibetan youth managed to scale the Chinese embassy compound wall in New Delhi to protest Beijing's crackdown in Lhasa.
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IANS, March 19, 2008
Patna, India -- Hundreds of Buddhist monks, including Tibetans, and others in Bodh Gaya protested Wednesday against China’s violent suppression of Tibetans in Lhasa.
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By Tenzin Chodon, Phayul, March 19, 2008
Dharamsala, India -- Deeply concerned with the violent crackdown by the Chinese authorities on the Tibetan protestors in Tibet, almost 700 members of the Himalayan Buddhist Cultural Association from Ladakh (J&K), Lahaul and Spiti (Himachal Pradesh), Uttarkashi, Sikkim, Monpa (Arunachal Pradesh) and Nepal led a peaceful demonstration this morning in the Indian town of Dharamsala.
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ANI, March 19, 2008
New Delhi, India -- Exiled Tibetan leaders took part in a day-long hunger strike here on Wednesday to protest the Chinese crackdown in Tibet.
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CCTV, March 11, 2008
Leh, Ladakh (India) -- It's the coming of sowing season in India's remote Ladakh region. Villagers herald the season as they throng to a palace monastery in a spirit of celebration and hope.
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Chennai Online, March 4, 2008
Tiruchirapalli, India -- The 'Bhoomi Pooja' (ground breaking ceremony) was performed for the construction of a new temple for Lord Buddha and Kadhikamam Murugan at Perur Village near here in the presence of Former Sri Lankan Minister Jayalath Jayawardhana and a few prominent Buddhist monks from Sri Lanka.
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Phayul, March 1, 2008
Dharamsala, India -- The Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies will confer an honorary degree on Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, former President of India.
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Daily Mirror, Feb 29, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Senior UNP Parliamentarian, Dr. Jayalath Jayawardena will visit Tamil Nadu from February 29 to March 6 along with a Buddhist delegation headed by Ven. Dr. Brahmanawatte Seevali Nayake Thero, Chief Incumbent, Nagadeepa Rajamaha Viharaya. This delegation would comprise high ranking Buddhist monks, including Ven. Dr. Muruttettuwe Ananda Thera.
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By Passang Norbu, Kuensel Online, February 28, 2008
Timphu, Bhutan -- It's got be pure devotion and determination that has driven a 38-year-old tour guide to do what he doing; prostrating a distance of 200 km plus to wash away bad karma and attain enlightenment in the next life.
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IANS, February 25, 2008
Shimla, India -- Centuries old Buddhist ‘thanka’ paintings and rare scriptures have been destroyed in a fire in Himachal Pradesh’s remote Lahaul valley, the police said Monday.
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Xinhua, Feb 24, 2008
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- A South Korean Buddhist team has arrived in Nepal for five-day visit, the National News Agency RSS reported on Sunday.
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News Agency of Kashmir, Feb 23, 2008
Buddhist philosophy effective tool against extremism: Sinha
Jammu, India -- Governor Lt. General (Retd) S K Sinha today said that the philosophy of Buddhism continues to be dear to most people of India and a source of inspiration to them, irrespective of their religion.
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Lanka Everything, Feb 21, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- An international English medium encyclopedia on Buddhism, covering a vast range of subjects including doctrine, philosophy, culture and diverse Buddhist activities, will be completed shortly.
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IANS, February 20, 2008
Patna, India -- A Japan-based organisation is setting up a research institute of Buddhism and oriental studies in Bihar’s Bodh Gaya, a city revered for being the place of Buddha’s attainment of enlightenment.
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by Kalpit Parajuli, AsiaNews, Feb 19, 2008
Kathmandu, Nepal -- Hundreds of Muslim and Buddhist schools want to join the public school system after the government signalled its intention of recognising religious schools, but has set some conditions to do so, namely that such schools also use non-religious textbooks recommended by the government’s Education Board rather than rely exclusively on their own religious texts.
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IANS, Feb 16, 2008
Patna, India -- Hundreds of Buddhist monks in Bodh Gaya are protesting a Bihar government advertisement showing photographs of President Pratibha Patil and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar placed above a picture of Gautam Buddha.
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by Pradeep Kumara Dharmaratne with Anuradha Edirisinghe, Lanka Daily News, Feb 18, 2008
Chennai, India -- The three Buddhist Viharayas named, Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha constructed at Thiruthanni, Trichy and Chennai in India will be opened on March 1, 2008.
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by Salil Deshpande, DNA India, February 16, 2008
Mumbai, India -- The Buddhist community in Mumbai may have to wait a while before they can legally get married the Buddhist way.
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by Sahil Nagpal, TopNews India, February 16, 2008
Bodh Gaya, India -- Buddhist Monks Protest Buddhist monks in Bodh Gaya have raised a stink over prayers being disrupted at the Mahabodhi Temple on Friday because President Pratibha Patil was visiting the area.
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The Buddhist Channel, February 15, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lankan Buddhist monks countered Valentine's Day celebrations in the island yesterday with programmes to lure the youth away from romantic love which they denounce as an undesirable Western concept.
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By Surya Pratap Singh, ANI, Feb 13, 2008
Bodh Gaya, India -- Thousands of Buddhist monks and devotees, many of them from abroad, are participating in a 10-day chanting ceremony for world peace here.
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IBN Live, Feb 8, 2008
Indian Government seems to think so
New Delhi, India -- The Kerala Government has cited scholars to suggest that Sabarimala was once a Buddhist shrine where rituals followed were synonymous with the 'Saranathrayam' of Buddhist disciples.
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By Arun Ranjit, The Rising Nepal, Feb 10, 2008
Kathmandu, Nepal -- Situated in the lap of the Himalayas sandwiched between two giant nations Nepal is a home to 70 ethnic groups having their own religion, culture, language and life-style. It is the land of heady mixture of unique culture proudly preserved; mind boggling adventure and remarkable nature beauty.
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UNI, February 4, 2008
MUMBAI, India -- A local court on Monday rejected the bail applications of four persons who have been arrested in connection with the suspected murder of a Buddhist monk here on January 6.
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By Simon Denyer, Reuters, February 3, 2008
BODH GAYA, India -- Tales of corruption, looting and religious rivalry are swirling around the spot where Buddha is said to have gained enlightenment in eastern India some 2,500 years ago, sullying one of Buddhism's holiest sites.
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IANS, January 30, 2008
Patna, India -- A plan of action for setting up the ambitious Nalanda International University modelled after the famed ancient seat of Buddhist learning in Bihar is set to be chalked out during the first board meeting in February, an official said on Wednesday.
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By KERRY WILLIAMSON - Waikato Times | Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Tengboche, Nepal -- At Tengboche Monastery, the spiritual home of the Sherpa, monks have been praying for a very important man for the past fortnight.
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by Manjula Hiripitiya, Lanka Daily News, Jan 25, 2008
Makumbura, Sri Lanka -- Under the patronage of the Chinese Buddhists in Singapore, the Chief Incumbent of Singapore Buddhist Temple Ven. Yatamagala Sumanasara Thera has set up a nursery school (kindergarten) named “Siduhath” at Makumbura, Kottawa, Ven. Sumanasara said.
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ANI, January 23, 2008
Dharamshala, India -- Teaching classes are being organised for Tibetan kids in Dharamshala with an aim to inculcate values of Buddhism.
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by Kalinga Seneviratne, Lanka Daily News, Jan 23, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's Buddhist monks see their fight against tobacco and alcohol abuse as more urgent than the war that the Government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa is prosecuting against the LTTE.
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The Times of India, Jan 19, 2008
GAYA, India -- The three-day Buddha Mahotsava, aimed at attracting foreign tourists/pilgrims and market Bodh Gaya as an important international tourist destination, ended around midnight on Thursday. The Mahotsava was jointly organised by the tourism department of the state government and Gaya district administration.
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Express news service, January 19, 2008
Ahmedabad, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama calls himself a Marxist monk, because “Marxism is more ethical, unlike capitalism”.
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TNN, Jan 19, 2008
MUMBAI, India -- A Buddhist monk from Gautam Nagar in Deonar committed suicide by consuming pesticide on Friday evening. The suicide note left behind by him did not blame anyone, however, the police have deployed more officials in the vicinity and other sensitive Dalit areas because Friday’s incident came only a days after the death of another Buddhist monk (see here).
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By Rajesh Dhotre, DailyIndia.com, Jan 17, 2008
Mumbai, India -- Mumbai, a place known world over for its film industry and for being the main financial hub of the country, also encompasses a Buddhist temple that has an interesting saga attached to its existence here.
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by Rajat Guha & Rajeev Jayaswal, TNN, Jan 18, 2008
NEW DELHI, India -- The Budget may have a special package for pilgrims. The finance ministry has in-principle agreed to extend a five-year tax holiday to budget hotels on the Buddhist circuit.
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by Sonam Ongmo, Kuensel Online, Jan 18, 2008
Timphu, Bhutan -- If Bhutanese really want to understand who we are as a people through our religious history and traditions, it may help that we learn about Bon as much as we do about Buddhism. As Samten G Karmay, a Bonpo Geshe and professor, who has written several books on the subject, says: “Bon and Tibetan - Buddhism are like two sides of the same coin – on viewing, one must also turn it over to see what is on the other side.”
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ANI, January 17, 2008
Bodh Gaya, Bihar (India) -- A group of foreign monks distributed nearly two thousand blankets among the poor and the needy during the ongoing ‘Buddha Mahotsava’ here.
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by S D Desai ,TNN, Jan 16, 2008
AHMEDABAD, India -- In words, action and attitude, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, kindles memories of Mahatma Gandhi. Saying that Tibet’s "freedom struggle is based on non-violence", the Nobel Peace Laureate (1989) adds, "If we do not have truth on our side, we will have no alternative but to keep suffering." His stress for freedom is on knowledge. "Schools, even if set up by the Chinese," he says, "are good."
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Newindpress, January 16 2008
SOMWARPET, India -- Eradication of untouchability can be achieved only through transformation of people’s mindset, state Lokashikshana Department Commissioner K Shivaramu has said.
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IANS, Jan 16, 2008
Patna, India -- Fearing displacement and loss of livelihood if the government's master plan for Bihar's Buddhist holy town of Bodh Gaya is implemented, hundreds took out a silent march to protest the proposed facelift of the town that is visited by thousands of tourists every year.
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by Sarath Edirisinghe, Lanka Daily News, Jan 17, 2008
Ven. Baddegama Wimalawansa Anunayake Thera’s death anniversary falls today
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Late Ven. Baddegama Wimalawansa Anunayake Thera was born on December 8 1913 in Baddegama into a distinguished family which hails from down-south and he came to Colombo at the age of nine.
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by K. D. Jayasekera, Lankamission.org, Jan 15, 2008
Trincomalee, Sri Lanka -- The Seruwila Mangala Viharaya in Trincomalee district is considered one of the most venerable ancient Buddhist temples to be found in the Eastern province where once Buddhism flourished at its peak.
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By Iftikhar Gilani, Daily Times, jan 16, 2008
NEW DELHI, India -- Fearing a decline in their population, Buddhist groups in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir have called for an immediate halt on family planning programmes in their region.
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By Gopal Sharma, Reuters, Jan 14, 2008
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Twenty Nepali Buddhist monks, wearing maroon robes and singlets, offered special prayers at a memorial service on Monday for Mount Everest hero Sir Edmund Hillary, who died last week at the age of 88.
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By Edwin Hsiao, Taiwan Journal, Jan 10, 2008
Siribopura, Sri Lanka -- A secondary school built by Taiwan's largest charity organization, the Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation Taiwan, was inaugurated in Sri Lanka Jan. 5 after a year of construction. The charity, with a worldwide membership of five million, is helping to rebuild the South Asian country that was devastated by a tsunami three years ago.
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Express news service, January 11, 2008
Mumbai, India -- The Mumbai Police today arrested four persons “for further questioning” in connection with the death of Buddhist monk Bhante Sangaraj Mahathero.
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by Jade Hemeon, Toronto Star, Jan 10, 2008
Exiles recreate traditional way of life in Himalayan village
McLeod Ganj, India -- At an altitude of almost 2,000 metres, the little hill station of McLeod Ganj huddles in the shadow of the enormous, snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas. But as home of the Dalai Lama and seat of the Tibetan government in exile, it is an important and unusual place.
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PTI, Jan 8, 2008
MUMBAI, India -- No fresh incident of violence was reported in the city today, while the Buddhist priest, whose mysterious death had triggered violence in the city for the last two days, was cremated this evening.
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by Madhurima Nandy, Hindustan Times, January 8, 2008
Mumbai, India -- While the real estate boom in many parts of Mumbai is in your face, a less conspicuous transformation in the city’s northeastern corner has suddenly been thrust into the limelight with the mysterious death of a Dalit monk over the weekend.
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TNN, Jan 8, 2008
MUMBAI, India -- The Dalit fury that was sparked off by the mysterious death of a Buddhist monk in Deonar on Sunday abated in the city a day later even as a post-mortem report showed hanging as the cause of death.
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by Ashwin Aghor, DNA India, January 7, 2008
MUMBAI, India -- Fellow Buddhist monks alleged that a builder from the area and his aides had “killed” Buddha Bhante Bhadhant Sanghraj Thero. They blamed police for taking no action against the builder despite repeated complaints against him.
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Press Trust of India, Jan 7, 2008
MUMBAI, India -- Tension prevailed in various places across the city on Sunday following the alleged suicide of a Buddhist priest opposing a redevelopment project in north east Mumbai's Deonar, police said.
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ColomboPage News Desk, January 4, 2008
Galle, Sri Lanka -- Myanmar Buddhist monks living in Sri Lanka launched a protest march from Galle this morning against the military Junta in their country.
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Thaindian (ANI), January 5, 2008
Nubra Vally, Ladakh (India) -- Disket Gompa, a Tibetan Monastery, located in the Nubra Valley of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir is mesmerising tourists.
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Spotlight, Jan 3, 2007
Kathmandu, Nepal -- Being a birth place of Shakyamuni Buddha , Nepal is a land full of stories, legends and traditions of Buddhism. From high Himalayan mountains to low land in south of Nepal , Buddhism has made great impacts on all areas.
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Xinhua, Jan 4, 2007
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Nepali government has asked the industries located in Lumbini area, some 300 km southwestern Kathmandu, to shift from the birthplace of Lord Buddha, The Himalayan Times reported on Friday.
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by Pranava K Chaudhary,TNN, Jan 2, 2008
PATNA, India -- Decks have been cleared for setting up a Buddha Memorial Park, first of its kind in the state, at the prime location in the state capital. The total cost of the project is estimated to be approximately Rs 125 crore (US$ 28mil). It is likely to be completed in 2009.
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by Sarath Malalasekera, Lanka Daily News, Jan 2, 2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka Police Buddhist Association was formed last year on a concept of IGP Victor Perera fulfilling a major shortcoming in the 141 year history of the Police Force has rendered a great service within a short period of nine months to promote moral and spiritual values among the Police Force for the greater good of the masses, said Police Media spokesman and Police Buddhist Association President Senior DIG Jayantha Wickremaratne.
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by Janaka Perera, Asian tribune, Jan 2, 2008
Meethirigala, Sri Lanka -- Meethirigala Nissarana Wanaya, one of Sri Lanka's most respected and largest Buddhist Forest Hermitages, celebrated its 40th year of existence, on December 23 (Unduvap Poya Day).
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Express News Service, December 31 2007
KONARK, India -- Buddhist site Kuruma, which can be developed into a beautiful tourist draw, is yet to be tapped by State Government and Archaeological authorities.
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Times of India, Dec 31, 2007
GAYA, India -- The mysterious burning of James Lamo (pronounced Jah mes Lah mo), the Buddhist nun who died of 100 per cent burns near world famous Mahabodhi Temple, late on Thursday evening, has left behind several unanswered questions with the police groping in the dark after registering a case of unnatural death in the Bodh Gaya police station.
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By Phurbu Thinley, Source: Phayul, The Buddhist Channel, December 31, 2007
Dharamsala, India -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama today extended a warm advance greeting for the New Year 2008 and Losar (Tibetan New Year) 2135 after finishing five days of teaching at the request of Mongolian Buddhists.
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ANI, December 28, 2007
Bodh Gaya, India -- An 84-year-old Buddhist monk from Bhutan, has alleged immolated himself on Thursday inside the premises of Maha Bodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya in Bihar under mysterious circumstances.
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by Janaka Perera, The Buddhist Channel, Dec 30, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Animal Welfare Bill has been gazetted in Sri Lanka as a Private Member's Bill on the initiative of Ven. Athureliye Ratana Thero, Member of Parliament.
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Sahara Samay, December 28, 2007
Gaya, India -- A 74-year-old Buddhist monk set himself on fire at the Mahabodhi temple last evening, the police said.
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The Economic Times, Dec 28, 2007
NEW DELHI, India -- Varanasi and Shrawasti could soon be easily accessible to foreign Buddhists. The government has proposed to link Buddhist tourist destinations with countries like Japan, Thailand and Sri Lanka that have significant Buddhist population.
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The Statesman, Dec 26, 2007
KOLKATA, India -- Calcutta University’s (CU) efforts to encourage foreign students to opt for its new Buddhism course fell flat when the university failed to upload the course details onto their website and only seven students enrolled.
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ANI, December 23, 2007
Buddhist religious head Karmapa Lama has called for consolidation of world peace
Bodhgaya, Bihar (India) -- The 17th Karmapa Lama, Ogyen Thrinley Dorje said that he will continue to strive to bring greater unity among people.
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The Hindu, Dec 24, 2007
Future requires synthesis of religion, spirituality and science, says Venkatachalaiah
HYDERABAD, India -- Former Chief Justice of India M.N. Venkatachalaiah has said that blending science with humanism would be the biggest challenge of the country in coming years.
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by Kavita Suri, The Statesman, Dec 22, 2007
LEH, Ladakh (India) -- Seven years ago, when the Afghan Taliban militia destroyed the Bamiyan Buddha in the war-ravaged country, an outcry was raised by the world community over the loss of the world heritage.
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Asiantribune.com, Dec 21, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- A University is to be set up shortly to provide higher education to Daham Pasal Teachers, disclosed Enterprise Development and Investment Promotion Minister Dr. Sarath Amunugama, at a meeting held at the Hataraliyadda T.B. Ilangaratne National School on Sunday.
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Sify News, December 20, 2007
New Delhi, India -- After Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, it's now the turn of Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama to teach management and leadership qualities at the premier Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A).
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By Caroline Watson, Asia Times, Dec 19, 2007
"Impermanence or decay is the inherent nature of everything that exists in the universe - whether animate or inanimate." - Buddhist teaching
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- On December 15, President Pervez Musharraf addressed the nation. Pakistan's state of emergency is over, he said, and the country can look ahead to free and fair elections in January. Although Musharraf may have had power-clutching motives for declaring the emergency last month, one key reason he has repeatedly given for the move was the emergence of Pakistan's new pro-Taliban frontline in the Swat Valley.
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Business Standard, December 19, 2007
New Delhi, India -- The blueprint for reviving one of the most ancient educational institutions of the world - the 1197 AD Nalanda University in Bihar - is expected to be ready by early next year.
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by ASHWANI TALWAR, Newind Press, December 18 2007
NEW DELHI, India -- In keeping with the times, students at the new Nalanda University would study subjects like global warming and business management.
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IANS, Dec 17, 2007
New Delhi, India -- With Buddhist sites high on the agenda, India and Sri Lanka Monday agreed on a slew of measures to develop and promote these to attract more tourists from the island nation.
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by Htein Linn, Mizzima News, December 17, 2007
Bihar, India -- In a view to uplift the Buddhist Sasana (religion) Burmese monks on Sunday formed an organization at Buddhist sacred place of Gaya in India's Bihar state.
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Sify News, December 16, 2007
Patna, India -- Authorities have forced the top priest of Bodh Gaya Buddhist temple to resign and suspended a top official after they were found involved in chopping off a branch from the Buddha's 'enlightenment tree', apparently to sell it.
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by Raghu Krishnan, India Times, Dec 16, 2007
Bihar, India -- Bihar will have a tryst with history in 2077 AD. That year will see the 2,700th anniversary of the day Siddhartha achieved enlightenment and became the Buddha at a place which has come to be known as Bodh Gaya.
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by Kavita Suri, The Statesman, Dec 13, 2007
LEH, Ladakh (India) -- As India is diluting her support to the Tibetan cause for forging new ties with China, thousands of Buddhists living in this small region of Ladakh, neighbouring Tibet, are feeling threatened by the increasing closeness between the two neighbours.
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IANS, Dec 14, 2007
Patna, India -- The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will be providing loans to Bihar, one of India's economically backward states, to speed up development, top officials of the state said here Friday.
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by Janaka Perera, The Buddhist Channel, Dec 12, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Is there a deliberate attempt to cover up the real causes that led to the untimely death in Russia of popular Sri Lankan Buddha Dhamma preacher the Venerable Gangodawila Soma Thera exactly four years ago – on December 12, 2003?
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Media for Freedom, Dec 9, 2007
Kathmandu, Nepal -- The ancient ruins of Tilaurakot are situated about five kilometers north of Taulihawa, the present day district centre of the Kapilbastu District in Nepal.
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IBN/AP, December 8, 2007
New Delhi, India -- Police have charged three people for chopping off a branch of the sacred Mahabodhi tree in Buddhism's holiest site Bodh Gaya, apparently to sell as them souvenirs.
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Telegraph Nepal, Dec 7, 2007
Kathmandu, Nepal -- Delivering a passionate and thought provoking lecture on Buddhist philosophy, honorable Mahinda Thero said that the Essence of Buddhist philosophy emanate from the innate desire from one’s own soul for kindness to others.
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Rediff, December 6, 2007
Mumbai, India -- Nearly 15,000 followers from the interiors of Maharashtra and across India thronged to Mumbai, converging at Shivaji Park, to mark the death anniversary of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar on Thursday.
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by Rodney Martinesz, Lanka Daily News, Dec 4, 2007
Kyoto, Japan -- President Mahinda Rajapaksa is to be presented with a 24 carat gold medal for his efforts to propagate Buddhist cultural values and precepts by the Honganji Foundation when the Lankan leader visits Japan this week.
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By Syed Moazzam Hashmi, The News, Nov 30, 2007
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- “Striving for your service,” reads a signboard outside a Taliban police station at a bazaar in Swat. Beside it a masked Kalashnikov wielding oxymoron was pointing the assault rifle straight at the onlookers.
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By Ram Chand Sahu, ANI, Nov 27, 2007
Sanchi, Madhya Pradesh (India) -- Hundreds of Buddhists and foreign tourists converged at Sanchi to pay homage to the holy remains of Lord Buddha's two chief disciples, Sariputra and Mahamodgilya, during the 55th Chetiyagiri Vihar festival held on the weekend.
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By GAVIN RABINOWITZ, AP, Nov 27, 2007
AMRITSAR, India -- The Dalai Lama said Tuesday the Tibetan people will hold a referendum before he dies to decide whether a new system of leadership is necessary for the Himalayan people.
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Xinhua News, Nov 26, 2007
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha and one of the World Heritage Sites in Nepal, is going to have a framework for future plans in the sacred archaeological site soon, a leading website, THT Online reported on Monday.
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Kuensel Online, November 27, 2007
Timphu, Bhutan -- Professor Robert Thurman is a widely known geshey in the west and is highly regarded by Buddhists all over the world. He is the Je Tsongkhapa Professor at Columbia University in New York and describes himself as a rimé, or a non-sectarian non-partisan follower of Tibetan Buddhism.
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AFP, Nov 27, 2007
AMRITSAR, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said Tuesday that his successor will be chosen outside of Tibet if he dies in exile.
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Express News Service, November 23 2007
BHUBANESWAR, India -- The famous Buddhist site of Lalitgiri will play host to the first-ever Buddhist Festival in the State, beginning on November 25. Several artistes from here and outside are expected to perform in the three-day event.
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Kashmir Watch News Service, Nov 23, 2007
JAMMU, Kashmir (India) -- Even as the World Monuments Fund (WMF), New York has listed the city of Leh, Ladakh in its top 100 most endangered sites in the world, the priceless rich heritage of Ladakh in the form of its monasteries needs sustained preservation and conservation efforts involving both local people and monks in the monasteries, a top tourism expert in Jammu and Kashmir said here today.
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ANI, November 22, 2007
Bodh Gaya, Bihar (India) -- Indian and Japanese Buddhist devotees participated in 20th anniversary celebrations of the 80-feet-tall Lord Buddha statue in Daijokyo Buddhist temple in Gaya.
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DPA, Nov 21, 2007
NAGPUR, India -- North Nagpur Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) Nitin Raut observed a symbolic hunger strike on the assembly premises demanding passing of the Buddhist Marriage and Succession Act-2007. Raut broke the fast after an assurance by the state’s minister for social justice Chandrakant Handure.
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IANS, Nov 20, 2007
Islamabad, Pakistan -- Residents of a village in northern Pakistan have come together to protect an ancient Buddhist site, asking a mine owner to stop using dynamite as this was putting the relic at risk.
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The News (Pakistan), Nov 20, 2007
MARDAN, Pakistan -- The residents of Babozai village forced the owner of a mine at Kashmir Smast to stop blasting in the mountains, as it was not only their property but also destroying an historical Bhuddist site.
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BY ALEX GORTON, Scotsman, Nov 17, 2007
Timphu, Bhutan -- AS RECENTLY as 25 years ago outsiders were forbidden from entering Bhutan, a tiny, Buddhist country lying at the eastern end of the Himalayas.
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By Anuj Chopra, US News, November 16, 2007
Bodh Gaya, India -- The Bodhi Tree's branches stretch out from its solid trunk, their distinctive heart-shaped leaves casting protective shade over those who sit beneath.
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PTI, Nov 13, 2007
Islamabad, Pakistan -- In a repeat of the horrendous vandalism that destroyed the Bamiyan Buddha statues in Afghanistan in 2001, militants in northwest Pakistan's troubled Swat valley have destroyed one of the oldest and most important Buddhist sculptures, second in importance in South Asia.
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ANI, November 14, 2007
New Delhi, India -- Myanmar has seen hundreds of thousands of Buddhist monks protesting in the country for the last few weeks, calling for democracy and an end to the military government.
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by Walter DAYARATHNE, Lanka Daily News, Nov 12, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- "Safeguarding our archaeology, in effect is unearthing our buried history. Its trustees are none other than our Maha Sangha. It is our duty to entrust them with the responsibility of giving vision to the nation", said North Central Province Governor Karunaratna Divulgane.
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by Sahil Nagpal, ANI, November 10, 2007
New Delhi, India -- The 17th Karmapa Lama, Ugyen Thrinley Dorje, has arrived in Delhi while on his way to Bodhgaya to attend an annual Buddhist prayer.
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By Phurbu Thinley, Phayul, November 7, 2007
Dharamsala, India -- A five-day joint festival of Buddhists from Mongolia and Russian Republics of Kalmykia, Tuva and Buryatia kick started yesterday morning with an exotic art exhibition displaying paintings, photos, and diverse souvenir products from the regions.
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By Yassin Musharbash, Spiegel Online, Nov 8, 2007
Swat, Pakistan -- When the Taliban destroyed two Buddhist statues in Afghanistan in the spring of 2001, there was an international outcry. But similar incidents are now occurring in northwest Pakistan, where radical Islamists recently blew up a sculpture of Buddha in broad daylight.
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The Buddhist Channel, Nov 5, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Managers of Sri Lanka's first Buddhist Television Channel – Dharmavahini - are appealing to all Buddhists for donations to maintain the channel. It was launched due to the tireless efforts of the Colombo-based Danish Bhikku, the Venerable Denmark Mettavihari.
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by Ishfaq-ul-Hassan, DNA India, November 4, 2007
Wary of rising Muslim population, Buddhist apex body in Ladakh urges community to produce more children
SRINAGAR, India -- Buddhist leaders say their population is declining due the family planning norms adopted by its community, while the Muslim population was showing an increase because of their refusal to adopt these initiatives owing to their religious directives.
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By Ramesh Uvais, Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka), Nov 5, 2007
Ven. Pelpola Vipassi Thera talks of plans to create a disciplined future generation
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The foremost person who made the biggest sacrifice for the welfare of all worldly beings was the Buddha. Buddhahood is the most coveted position a human being could attain. To attain this position one has to fulfill ten ordinances.
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by Vishakha N Desai, Daily Times, Nov 5, 2007
Islamabad, Pakistan -- Despite repeated requests by Pakistani archeologists to the local authorities to protect the seated Buddha and other sites, especially after the first attack, no action was taken. In fact, militants were able to carry out their work in broad daylight
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By Janaka Perera, Asian Tribune, Nov 3, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- A 100 years after the British enacted animal welfare laws (The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Ordinance No.13 of 1907), a new draft legislation to protect animal rights made its way to the Parliament today (Nov.2) in the form of a private member's motion, largely due to the reluctance of the two major political parties to spearhead such a move.
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by Nirmala Carvalho, Asia News, Nov 3, 2007
The head of the Central Administration of Tibet, in exile in India tells AsiaNews, adding: China constantly threatens consequences for those who meet with the Dalai Lama.
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by Mayur Pahilajani, AHN, November 3, 2007
New Delhi, India -- The Indian government asked its members to not attend a ceremonial function honoring the Dalai Lama in the capital on Saturday. The strict orders came in the wake of a statement made by the Tibetan spiritual leader accusing China of "demographic aggression" against residents of his Buddhist homeland.
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by Felix Choo, The Ethical Traveller, Nov 2, 2007
Timphu, Bhutan -- Cloistered in splendid isolation high atop the majestic eastern Himalayas, the Kingdom of Bhutan is considered by some to be the world's last Shangri-la. For the rare traveler who's lucky enough to be granted a visa to visit, it must surely seem the case.
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Earth Times, Nov 1, 2007
Dharamsala, India -- Mongolia and the Russian republics of Kalmykia, Tuva and Buryatia are jointly organising a grand five-day Buddhist festival for the first time in the northern Indian hill town of Dharamsala.
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by Prabalta Rijal, Gorkhapatra, Oct 31, 2007
Kathmandu, Nepal -- The much ambitious project 'The footsteps of Lord Buddha', a regional Buddhist circuit, which links the Nepalese Buddhist sites with Indian, Bangladeshi, Bhutanese and Sri Lankan locations will be completed by April next year.
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ANI, Nov 1, 2007
Bodhgaya, India -- At least 26 foreign tourists began a unique pilgrimage by foot to major Buddhist pilgrimage sites across India on Wednesday.
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by Prof. J. B. Disanayake, Lanka Daily News, Nov 1, 2007
A tribute to Ananda College, which turns 121 today
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- In the aftermath of the Great Debate of Panadura (1873), Buddhist leaders, both lay and monastic, focused their attention on the necessity for a system of education that suited the needs and aspirations of the Buddhists of this country.
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By Vidushi Seneviratne, Sunday Times, Oct 28, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- In this fast-paced world where materialism, competition and the need to succeed, supersede most other aspects we should be focusing on as human beings, religion too seems to be gradually losing its significance.
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by Jajati Karan, CNN-IBN, October 28, 2007
Jajpur, India -- For the past 25 years, villagers in Uttarpratap in Orissa's northern district of Jajpur have been worshiping an ancient idol after they discovered it in the village pond.
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By Roger Cohen, International Herald Tribune, October 28, 2007
BAMIYAN, Afghanistan -- People still speak of the Buddhas as if they were there. The Buddhas are visited and debated. A "Buddha road" just opened. It boasts the first paved surface in Afghanistan's majestic central highlands and stretches all of a half-mile.
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The Times of India, Oct 23, 2007
NAGPUR, India -- Expressing support that the reservation system would help uplift the backward classes, Bihar assembly speaker Udaynarayan Chaudhary said the facility should be extended to the judiciary, too.
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The Times of India, Oct 23, 2007
JALANDHAR, India -- As the world watched media images of clean-shaven Buddhist monks in maroon marching down Yangon's streets demanding democracy in Myanmar, the attention of some was drawn to a bearded, turbaned man. Incongruous as it seemed, it was a Sikh fighting with the pro-democracy agitators.
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by NEERAJ SANTOSHI, October 17, 2007
Perturbed over the atrocities over Buddhist monks in Myanmar
JAMMU, India -- Perturbed over the atrocities over Buddhist monks in Myanmar (Burma), Lamas, along with other Buddhists in the trans-Himalayan Ladakh, staged a protest rally in Leh city on Tuesday, urging the Indian Government to use to rescue them.
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Lanka Daily News, Oct 13, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- SEVEN Sri Lankan Buddhist prelates will leave the country for Iran tomorrow. The seven-member delegation will be in Iran from October 14 to 21 to establish relations and exchange academic information and research.
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By Ajay Kumar , Dailyindia.com/ANI, Oct 12, 2007
Kesaria, Bihar (India) -- Residents and pilgrims are bemoaning the dilapidated condition of a Buddhist monument in Bihar, despite it being under control of the country's archeological department.
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By Sonam Pelden, Kuensel Online, October 15, 2007
Tourism with a spiritual flavour - this could sound like music to dharma bums
Timphu, Bhutan -- Buddhist teachers like Sogyal Rinpoche, Julia Jus, Gangteng Tulku Kunzang Pema Namgyal and Minling Khenchen Rinpoche will be delivering free teachings, all under one roof, in Paro from December 2 to March 16, 2008.
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by Senaka Weeraratne, Asian Tribune, October 12, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Whatever crisis Sri Lanka finds itself at this juncture in its history, this country's repute in the international arena would improve if an award in the name of an outstanding Sri Lankan were to be inaugurated in Sri Lanka along the lines of the Nobel Prize, Mahatma Gandhi Peace Prize or Ramon Magsaysay Award.
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The Buddhist Channel, Oct 10, 2007
Bangalore, India -- Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche, a distinguished lama from the Institute of Higher Buddhist Studies at Namdroling Monastery will be giving an oral transmission and explanation on the Prajna-Paramita-Hrdaya-Sutra, the essence of Wisdom Perfection.
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PIB, Oct 6, 2007
New Delhi, India -- The Minister of Railways, Shri Lalu Prasad, has said that the Indian Railways will continue to play a major role in promoting tourism in the country. The Minister was speaking at a programme organized on the occasion of flagging off Buddhist Circuit Special Train “Mahaparinirvan” from Safdarjung station here today.
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By Tenzin Choephel, Phayul, October 6, 2007
Kathmandu, Nepal -- In support of the ongoing protest led by monks in Myanmar, over 500 Buddhist monks of Nepal joined by Tibetan Buddhist monks, lay people and some political leaders gathered at Maitighar Mandala on Thursday evening and condemned the recent crackdown and killings in Myanmar.
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PTI, Oct 4, 2007
Nagpur, India -- An organisation of Buddhists monks has sought India's intervention into the crackdown on civilians and monks in Myanmar by the military regime.
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PTI, Oct 1, 2007
New Delhi, India -- With an eye on Buddhist tourists, the Uttar Pradesh government is planning to develop a Buddhist circuit in the state at a cost of Rs 1200 crore.
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by Shaheen Buneri, The Buddhist Channel, Sept 29, 2007
MINGORA, Pakistan -- Unidentified militants exploded the historic statue of Buddha in Jihan Abad area of Swat district in North West Pakistan.
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by Ashish Sinha,TNN, Sep 30, 2007
NEW DELHI, India -- Huddled up in a corner near Jantar Mantar, a small group of pro-democracy activists and Buddhist monks from Myanmar did raise clenched fists to protest the reign of terror let loose by the military junta.
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Lanka Business Online (LBO), Sept 28, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Five traits described in Buddhism which do not help achieve goals in life are also well suited for business and management, a top Sri Lankan management professional said.
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ANI, Sept 30, 2007
New Delhi, India -- Indian Buddhist monks on Sunday held a sit-in against the violent crackdown of pro-democracy demonstrators in Myanmar and expressed solidarity with their counterparts in Myanmar, who are facing repression by the military junta there.
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by M Rama Rao, Asian Tribune, Sept. 29, 2007
New Delhi, India -- As the pro-democracy protests rage in the streets of Yangon, several Indian leaders have called for UN sanctions against the military regime. The Communist party of India Marxist has expressed solidarity with the people of Burma. Before George Fernandes joined the Vajpayee government as defence minister, his residence on the Krishna Menon Marg, was a sanctuary of sorts for the underground activists from Myanmar and Tibet.
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Lanka Daily News, Sept 24, 2007
KURUNEGALA, Sri Lanka -- The Bambaragala International Buddhist Meditation Centre situated at Morathiha in the North Western Province is about 13 miles from Kurunegala town.
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ANI, Sept 23, 2007
Dharamsala, India -- Young Tibetans-in-exile undergo training in the monasteries in Dharamsala to understand the nuances of the Tibetan Buddhism.
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By Phurbu Thinley, Phayul, September 21, 2007
Dharamsala, India -- Tibetan monasteries and Nunneries based in Dharamsala staged a reproving demonstration march from Tsuglag-Khang to lower Dharamsala condemning the so-called Order no. 5 of China's State Administration of Religious Affairs (SARA) on “Management Measures for the Reincarnation of 'Living Buddhas'” in Tibetan Buddhism.
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The Times of India, Sept 19, 2007
PATNA, India -- Japan’s leading tour operator Nippon Express Company Ltd will do a special feature on “Buddhism and Bihar” for its magazine.
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by Lakshman JAYAWARDANE, Lanka Daily News, Sept 17, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The origin of Buddhism in South India can be traced to Asoka’s Dharma Vijaya in the 3rd century B.C. Asoka’s rock edicts II and XIII enumerated the provinces of his own territory as well as abroad where he sent Buddhist missionaries.
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Lanka Daily News, Sept 15, 2007
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- The Pakistan High Commission in Colombo launched the Sinhalese translation of the book Buddhist Gandhara- History, Art and Architecture written by Ihsan H. Nadiem.
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Lanka Daily News, Sept 13, 2007
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sinhala Buddhists should be encouraged to visit Pakistan as they do to Buddhagaya, for the Relics of the Buddha are also preserved in Pakistan, thanks to the Pakistani Government and its Cultural Ministry, Prof. J. B. Dissanayake Ambassador designate to Thailand said.
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by Nadira Gunatilleke and Manjula Fernando, Lanka Daily News, Sept 13, 2007
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- The Government has already made arrangements to upgrade the tourism industry. Under these arrangements, an Advisory Committee consisting of 27 Bhikkhus representing all three Nikayas has been appointed with the intention of promoting tourism between Sri Lanka and other Buddhist countries, Media Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena said.
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By Hemant Chauhan, ANI, Sept 13, 2007
Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh (India) -- Traditional Tibetan paintings on Buddhist spiritual leaders drew hordes of youngsters to a ten-day exhibition in Dharamshala.
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By Surya Pratap Singh, ANI, Sept 13, 2007
Bodh Gaya, Bihar (India) -- Maitri, a non-Government Organisation, has made arrangements to give special medical care to pet animals, and if they die, give them a dignified burial.
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By Hameedullah Khan, Reuters, Sept 12, 2007
MINGORA, Pakistan -- Militants in Pakistan have tried to blow up a seventh-century Buddhist rock carving in an attack reminiscent of the destruction of ancient Buddha statues in Afghanistan six years ago.
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by G S Srinivas, Newindpress, September 11 2007
GULBARGA, India -- The State Government would spend Rs 5 crore (US$ 1.23 mil) to develop the Sannati Buddhist heritage site located in Chittapur taluk in the district.
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By Walter Jayawardhana, Asian Tribune, Sept 11, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Opposition and United National Party (UNP) leader stirred up another hornets nest by telling reporters of print and electronic media that he told Malwatte Mahanayaka Thero to ordain all journalists.
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by Pranava K Chaudhary, TNN, Sep 10, 2007
PATNA, India -- The glory of ancient Bihar will be showcased during a three-day meet on Indian tourism conference at Tokyo, commencing from September 12. For the first time, Bihar government has brought out a glossy colour book on Buddhist circuit in Japanese to attract them to visit Bihar.
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by DANIEL PEPPER, The Scotsman, Sept 9, 2007
KUSHINAGAR, India -- IT IS the world's first statue skyscraper. A 500ft bronze Buddha, the biggest ever built, is set to dominate Uttar Pradesh for 1,000 years. The $250m project has the backing of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, but not local farmers.
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ANI, Sept 6, 2007
Patna, India -- Bihar is currently playing host to a group of hundred Buddhist followers from five Southeast Asian countries in a bid to promote Buddhist sites as tourist destinations.
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ANI, Sept 3, 2007
Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh (India) -- Exiled Tibetans have condemned a Chinese law that states all future incarnations of living Buddhas related to Tibetan Buddhism "must get government approval."
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By Janaka Perera, Asian Tribune, Sept 1, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- How sincere are some of those who advocate inter-religious dialogue? Some Buddhists suspect that it is a Trojan horse meant to subvert Buddhism and Hinduism here. After all religious amity was nothing new to pre-colonial Sri Lanka until European invaders promoted conversion campaigns, leading to present-day religious frictions in the island.
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Lanka Daily News, Aug 31, 2007
KANDY, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka is not isolated in the international world. It has strong religious, cultural and political bonds with powerful Buddhist countries in the World said Enterprise Development and Investment promotion Minister Dr. Sarath Amunugama.
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by Mohammed Naalir, Lanka Daily News, Aug 28, 2007
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- The arrival of Thai Buddhist delegation is a symbol of the long lasting relationship between the two countries which maintained close cultural and religious ties for more than two centuries, Urban Development and Sacred Area Development Minister Dinesh Gunawardane said.
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AFP, Aug 26, 2007
Kandy, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka police Sunday defused a powerful bomb near the route of a major Buddhist festival in the sacred city of Kandy, officials said.
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Lanka Dailt News, Aug 27, 2007
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- President of the Buddhist Association of China Most Venerable Shi Yie Chang will lead a 125 member strong Buddhist delegation to Sri Lanka from August 26 to 31 in developing closer interactions and enhancing the bilateral Buddhist cultural relations dating back to over 2,500 years between the two countries.
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by Pranava K Chaudhary, Times of India, Aug 25, 2007
PATNA, India -- A 120-strong contingent, comprising ministers, bureaucrats, tour and travel operators and mediapersons, from five Buddhist nations will arrive here on September 5 on a five-day visit to the state under a Buddhist promotion mission — “Mekong to Ganga”.
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Mehr News, Aug 22, 2007
TEHRAN, Iran -- A seven-member delegation of Sri Lankan Buddhist monks are to visit Iran during the third week of October on a mission to promote dialogue between Buddhism and Islam.
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by Chitrangada Choudhury, Hindustan Times, Aug 23, 2007
Ladakh, India -- Things have come full circle for the 15th century Maitreya Temple in Ladakh. In 2002, the temple complex earned the dubious distinction of making it to a global list of endangered monuments. And now, the monument has won the Award of Excellence at the 2007 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage awards, beating 25 other entries from the region.
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The Buddhist Channel, Aug 22, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Sri Lanka Embassy in Tehran in association with the Islamic Cultural Relations Organization (ICRO) of Iran has made arrangements for a seven member delegation of Lankan Buddhist monks to visit Iran during the third week of October on a mission to promote a dialogue between Buddhism and Islam.
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Sunday Times, Aug 19, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Goethe-Institut, German Cultural Centre in Colombo, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year with several programmes related primarily to Buddhism. The programmes started in February and will continue till December.
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The Buddhist Channel, Aug 22, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Sri Lanka Government's Philatelic Bureau has issued a commemorative postage stamp and First Day cover to mark the First Sri Lankan Buddhist Mission to Germany 50 years ago (1957-2007).
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ANI, Aug 20, 2007
Dharmashala, Himachal Pradesh (India) -- Many residents and environmentalists at Dharamshala are worried over the Tantrik prayer flags of Buddhists "Bon", that are feared to be polluting environment here.
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Brisbane Times (AFP), August 19, 2007
Leh, Ladakh (India) -- Perched high above the Himalayan town of Leh, a warren of traditional mud-brick houses squats by the ruins of the royal palace and a monastery, appearing to grow out of the mountainside.
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By Janaka Perera, Asian tribune, Aug 19, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The First Sri Lankan Buddhist Mission to Germany 50 years ago (1957-2007) will be honoured at a grand ceremony at the Savsiripaya Auditorium, Wijerama Mawatha, Colombo 7 on August 22.
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Statesman News Service, Aug 17, 2007
JAGATSINGHPUR, India -- Centuries old Buddhist and Jain idols, which have been worshipped in different Hindu temples in the Jagatsinghpur district, are in a now in a dilapidated state due to non-preservation and a lack of maintenance by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and department of culture.
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by Anupama Sushil, Express TravelWorld, Aug 17, 2007
New Delhi, India -- The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) completed the third run of its Buddhist circuit special luxury train, the Maha-Parinirvan, covering prominent Buddhist pilgrim centers of Bodhgaya, Sarnath, Kushinagar in India and Lumbini in Nepal.
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The Buddhist Channel, Aug 16, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Dr. Karl-Heinz Golzio from the University of Bonn, Germany will deliver a public lecture entitled “The German contributions to Theravada Buddhism and the Reception of Buddhism in Germany and its influence on German culture” on August 22, 2007 here in Colombo.
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The Associated Press, August 15, 2007
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- The tale of the Buddhist monk and his shiny, new Mercedes-Benz has sparked a national drama that has enthralled Sri Lanka and left many questioning the political — and religious — ethics of the cleric's hawkish political party.
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by Parul Sharma, The Hindu, Aug 14, 2007
High time Orissa got its due as a prominent centre
NEW DELHI, India -- Even as there are claims and counter-claims about Lord Buddha being born in Kapileswar village near Bhubaneswar and not Lumbini in present-day Nepal as believed all along so far, an American anthropologist says it is time Orissa got its due as one of the most prominent centres of Buddhism in the world.
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News Post India, August 13, 2007
Sirpur, India -- The Chhattisgarh government Monday decided to ban private construction at the famous Buddhist site of Sirpur. Permission for construction will only be given in rare cases as the government plans to develop it as a world heritage site.
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by HILARY CHIEW, The Star, August 13, 2007
Shey, Ladakh (India) -- THERE is more to tradition and Tibetan Buddhism at the Shey Monastery, the focal point of the 800-year celebration of the Drukpa lineage; there is also modernism, in the form of an innovative school.
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by HILARY CHIEW, The Star, August 13, 2007
Leh, Ladakh (India) -- PERSONAL enlightenment through solitary retreats and mantra recitations has always been the cornerstone of Buddhism, but one prominent guru is challenging his followers to expand their horizons by being “Messengers of Love”.
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by HILARY CHIEW, The Star, August 13, 2007
Ladakh, India -- TIBETAN Buddhism or the Vajrayana tradition consists of four schools – the Nyingma, Sakya, Kagyu and Gelug.
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Stories by HILARY CHIEW, The Star, August 13, 2007
Leh, Ladakh (India) -- The 800th anniversary of the Drukpa sect was celebrated with a fireworks display and the release of 800 sky lanterns.
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Lanka Daily News, Aug 11, 2007
Bhubaneswar, INDIA -- Discontent is brewing in Orissa over the proposed transfer of the relics of the Buddha to Ratnagiri for public display.
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by SCOTT BERRY, Nepali Times, Aug 10, 2007
The sands of the Bishnumati could turn to gold again
Kathmandu, Nepal -- Chibakhel is not usually counted among Kathmandu’s attractions. Situated in Ward 19, it is off the tourist trail and few even in Kathmandu have heard of it.
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By Dilrukshi Handunnetti, The Morning Leader, August 8, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka is seeking approval from the Paris based World Heritage Centre to have the Seruwila Raja Maha Viharaya declared as a World Heritage Site.
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Lanka Daily News, Aug 8, 2007
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- An international Buddhist Zone will be established in Boralesgamuwa. The Government has made arrangements in this regard on President, Mahinda Rajapaksa’s instructions.
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By Chathuri Dissanayake, The Sunday Times, Aug 5, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- A month after 24-hour 'The Buddhist' channel was launched by Dialog TV, the company has now launched a new channel without much fanfare – ‘GOD’, the evangelical channel of the American New Church.“It is now available to Sri Lankan viewers on request,” Dialog General Manager Nushad Perera said.
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By Ramani D.Wickramaratne, Lanka Web, Aug 3, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Gone are the days when erudite Buddhist scholars( both from Buddhist clergy and the laity) spent long hours doing research into The Buddha Dhamma and imparting their scholarship for others with lesser experience, to study and understand the deep philosophy of The Buddha Word.
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By Nishikant Waghmare, Countercurrents.org, August 2, 2007
Committee hands over resolution calling for official recognition of Buddhism in India, calling for "due justice and to give a human face to Buddhist people of India, in the land of Buddha."
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ANI, Aug 3, 2007
Leh, Ladakh (India) -- Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, was given a rousing welcome here on his arrival for a 20-day sojourn.
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By Ang Chhiring Sherpa, Kantipur Online, Aug 2, 2007
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- For the first time in the almost two hundred year old history of the British-Gurkhas, Buddhist monks will now also carry out religious rites for Gurkha soldiers and their family members. Earlier, only Hindu priests were appointed for religious purposes.
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ANI, July 28, 2007
Patna, India -- Some selected idols of Lord Buddha dating back to the 8th century AD are being sent from the Patna Museum to Singapore for an international exhibition.
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The Hindu, July 29, 2007
Tamil Nadu, India -- A statue of the Buddha in the taluk office at Ariyalur and several sculptures of the Buddha at Panruti town have disappeared recently, local despatches report.
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Gorkhapatra, July 30, 2007
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Chairman of the Siddhartha University, Dr. Vichhu Sunanda Mahasthabir has claimed that the government has not been responding to the University's call for the granting of permission to run the University.
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By Walter Jayawardhana, Asian Tribune, July 30, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka’s foremost Buddhist monk, the Head of the Malwatte Chapter of the Siamese Sect, regretted the recent statement made by Ranil Wickremesinghe, leader of the United National Party, calling Buddhist monks ‘a corrupt company or “Dussila Samagama” and said no service could be expected out of such leaders to the country, the religion and the Buddhist monks in the future.
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Newindpress, July 26 2007
SALEPUR/KENDRAPARA, India -- The recent decision of the State Government and the ASI to preserve the sacred relic caskets of Buddha, unearthed at Lalitgiri in 1986, at Ratnagiri has not gone down well with the people of Lalitgiri.
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Lankamission.com, July 25, 2007
Katharagama, Sri Lanka -- President Mahinda Rajapaksa met devotees from North and East taking part in annual religious ceremonies connected with the Katharagama main festival, during his surprise visit to the sacred area yesterday.
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AFP, July 20, 2007
Pilgrims from as far afield as Malaysia and Mexico have flocked to India's isolated region of Ladakh this week for celebrations to mark 800 years of the "dragon" sect of Tibetan Buddhism.
SHEY, India -- The events have included hours of chants and prayers around the 44-year-old Gyalwang Drukpa, the head of the Dragon lineage, plus a more contemporary song contest inspired by his motto, "Live to Love."
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AsiaNews/Agencies, July 21, 2007
Monks are to “remain above politics” according to the Constitution. Some monks agree; others view the ban as contrary to the country’s ‘reformist spirit.
Thimphu, Bhutan -- Some Buddhist monks have expressed their opposition to the country’s electoral law which makes them ineligible to vote or run for office. At the end of the year the Bhutanese will be called to choose their own representatives in their first parliamentary elections.
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Lanka Daily News, July 20, 2007
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- President Mahinda Rajapaksa paid homage to the sacred hair relics of the Buddha, gifted by Bangladesh to Sri Lanka, at the Gangaramaya, Hunupitiya, yesterday.
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AFP, July 19, 2007
With a new museum in the revered Hemis monastery and more schools teaching its history, India's Ladakh region hopes to protect a culture that many fear is changing rapidly as tourism booms.
HEMIS, India -- Tens of thousands of tourists flock each year to the "Little Tibet" in the far north, an area noted for its stark mountain landscapes and summer festivities at the Buddhist monasteries dotting the province.
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by Sanjay Singh, DNA India, July 17, 2007
PATNA, India -- Impressed by the highly advanced display techniques of its antiques and modern lighting arrangements at the galleries of Asian Civilisation Museum at Singapore, the Bihar government has decided to modernise its Patna museum on similar lines.
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Newindpress, July 17 2007
KHAMMAM, India -- The State Government has initiated steps to capitalise on the tourism potential of the famous Nelakondapalli Buddhist stupa, the second biggest one in South India.
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AFP, July 17, 2007
Monks and nuns from monasteries across the Himalayas gathered in India's far northern region of Ladakh Tuesday to mark 800 years of the Drukpa, or "dragon" sect of Tibetan Buddhism.
SHEY, India -- Starting before dawn, monks clad in maroon robes recited prayers for the long life of their spiritual leader the Gyalwang Drukpa, believed to be the twelfth reincarnation of the founder of the order, the first Gyalwang.
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ANI, July 16, 2007
Dharamsala, India -- Buddhist monks and followers offered prayers for the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala to overcome, according to Tibetan astrology, the year of 'obstacles' in his 73rd year.
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By Hemant Chauhan, ANI, July 13, 2007
Dharamsala, India -- Foreign tourists from across the world are making a beeline for Dharamsala to learn and practice Buddhism and its way of living.
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Daily Mirror, July 13, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- A hair relic of the Buddha will be brought to Sri Lanka from the Chittagong Buddhist Temple, Bangladesh on July 19, the Daily Mirror learns.
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Express Hospitality, July 15, 2007
New Delhi, India -- In order to further develop infrastructure in Buddhist circuits, the ministry of tourism is trying its best to draw foreign hotel chains to the country's Buddhist circuits develop hotels.
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IANS, July 10, 2007
Patna, India -- The first meeting of the Nalanda Mentor Group, headed by Nobel laureate Amartya Sen to oversee the opening of an international university in Nalanda in Bihar will be held in Singapore July 13-14.
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By Isuri Kaviratne, The Sunday Times, July 8, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- It was all done under the motto of “Peace of mind to all”. Sri Lanka’s first Buddhist Channel, after experiencing one week of telecast last week is all equipped to continue, Daranagala Kusaladhamma Thera, Chief Incumbent of Sri Sambodhi Viharaya said.
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By Karan Kapoor, Daily India, July 5, 2007
Ludhiana, India -- A Buddhist food festival was recently organised at Ludhiana's Majestic Park Plaza. It was a purely and strictly "zhai cài", or the pure vegetarian fare cuisine.
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Statesman News Service, July 6, 2007
GANGTOK, Sikkim (India) -- Along with rest of the world, the 72nd birth anniversary of the 14th Dalai Lama was celebrated in Sikkim today. Over 4,000 people gathered at the Shera Jhy Dophenling monastery in Chandmari, on the outskirts of Gangtok today to celebrate the birth anniversary of the spiritual leader.
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IANS, July 5, 2007
Bihar, India -- A Muslim youth has been appointed the advisor and patron of an upcoming Thai temple-cum-community centre at Bodh Gaya, where Lord Buddha attained enlightenment about 2,550 years ago.
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By Sudha Ramachandran, Asia Times, July 3, 2007
BANGALORE, India -- As the Sino-Indian battle for influence in East and Southeast Asia intensifies, India is backing its political and economic diplomacy with soft-power diplomacy. To counter China's efforts to keep India out of the region on the grounds that it is an "outsider", India is drawing attention to its solid Buddhist credentials.
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by Rohan MATHES, Lanka Daily News, July 2, 2007
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- President Mahinda Rajapaksa asserted that Rs. 1264 million (US$ 37 mil) had been allocated for the religious Affairs Ministry which is under his purview, to nurture the nation’s spiritual development simultaneously with economic development.
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The Hindu, July 1, 2007
CHENNAI, India -- Finance Minister K. Anbazhagan on Saturday underscored the relevance of Lord Buddha’s teachings and listed the efforts made by the Tamil Nadu Government at creating greater awareness among youth.
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by P Anantha Krishnan, The Pioneer, July 1, 2007
That is no country for old men. The young
In one another's arm, birds in trees...
Caught in that sensual music all neglect
Monuments of unaging intellect.
Thus lamented Yeats. We all know ours is no country for old men. It is no country for old monuments either. Here both young and old conspire to neglect monuments that have survived countless centuries. The prime example of this is our criminal neglect of the Amaravati Collection.
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by PK Balachandran, Hindustan Times, June 30, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The satellite TV channel "The Buddhist", inaugurated by the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Colombo on Friday, would be a celebration of the ancient cultural and religious ties between Sri Lanka and India, a top Sri Lankan official said.
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by Suresh Krishnamoorthy, The Hindu, June 27, 2007
HYDERABAD, India -- Sri Lanka and Andhra Pradesh will soon join hands in a bid to leverage the tourism potential of the Buddhist circuit to woo international tourists, said P.M. Amza, Deputy High Commissioner for Sri Lanka in Southern India.
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PTI, June 25, 2007
PATNA, India -- Charging Union Minister and RJD leader Raghuvansh Prasad Singh with "playing politics" over shifting relics of Lord Buddha to his parliamentary constituency Vaishali, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday asserted he will not "buckle under pressure."
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NOW.tv, June 25, 2007
Bodh Gaya, India -- In exclusive report by Times Now, the Bodh Gaya Temple management finds itself in the midst of a fresh controversy, with a criminal complaint filed in the court against the cutting off a branch of the famous 'Mahabodhi' tree.
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TIMES NEWS NETWORK, Jun 26, 2007
GAYA, India -- The world famous Mahabodhi Temple premises — a World Heritage site — besides having the sanctum sanctorum, Lord Buddha's footprints, the enlightenment tree and the Muclind Sarovar, is also dotted by Stupas all around the area.
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The Sunday Times, June 24, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The funeral of Maligakanda Vidyodaya Pirivenadhipathi, Mahnayake Ven. Akuretiye Amarawansa Thera, will take place tomorrow at the Independence Square.
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IANS, June 25, 2007
Patna, India -- A Buddhist monk has filed a criminal complaint against top officials of the Bodh Gaya temple in Bihar for allegedly cutting a branch of a Bodhi tree there, considered sacred to millions the world over as it is believed Lord Buddha attained enlightenment under it about 2,550 years ago.
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Dailyindia.com/ANI, June 23, 2007
Peshawar, Pakistan -- Emperor Kanishka, who ruled from his capital Peshawar in 78 AD was responsible for the development of the Buddhist.
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by Amitabh Sinha, Indian Express, June 23, 2007
New Delhi, India -- Following sustained pressure from the Tourism Ministry, the Finance Ministry has agreed to give five-year tax break to new hotels coming up in districts that have places of Buddhist importance.
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DPA, June 22, 2007
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- The Tibetan authorities yesterday returned 27 ancient idols and a miniature shrine stolen from a remote monastery in north-west Nepal.
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by Pratap Rughani, The Times, June 20, 2007
India’s Untouchables are finding new hope by converting to Buddhism
Andhra Pradesh, India -- A slow wave of conversions is flowing across India as thousands from the country’s most excluded Dalit or “ex-Untouchable” communities seek a fresh start in life as Buddhists.
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TIMES NEWS NETWORK, June 19, 2007
PATNA, India -- Political party Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which is also a member of India's governing coalition led by the Congress Party has once again raked up the issue of keeping the holy relic of Lord Buddha in Vaishali district.
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by Indrani Bagchi, TIMES NEWS NETWORK, June 21, 2007
NEW DELHI, India -- India and China are engaged in a competition for soft power supremacy in Asia - the battlefield is ownership of one of the world's oldest religions, Buddhism.
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By Karishma Vyas, AFP, June 21, 2007
For generations, the government limited foreign influence to preserve Bhutan’s Buddhist, rural traditions. But with TV’s advent, that’s changing now
Timphu, Bhutan -- Television reached the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan only eight years ago but the country is hooked. Hollywood movies and Indian soaps are the biggest draw, but amid a mass of programmes there is growing unease about the cost to traditional culture.
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Cybernoon, June 20, 2007
Mumbai, India -- Have you always been fascinated by Buddhism, especially by the way it was in its days of glory? If you are interested in understanding the religion the way it once was and in its own language, then the K.J. Somaiyya Centre is the place for you.
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By D.C. Ranatunga, Lanka Daily News, June 17, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The response to weekly Dhamma sermons at the students’ hostel in what was then known as 'Olcott Lodge' in Barnes Place became a source of inspiration for two monks and a devout Buddhist layman to plan the setting up of an organization to serve the Sasana. It was just after the Buddha Jayanthi celebrations to mark the 2500th anniversary of the passing away of Gautama the Buddha.
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Lanka Daily News, June 13, 2007
Ganewatta, Sri Lanka -- A number of Buddha statues in Sulugal Vihara, a historical temple at Peddawa, Mahamookalanyaya in the Ganewatta Divisional Secretariat division are being destroyed by termites.
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India News, June 12, 2007
Bihar, India -- Japan's Consulate General to India Noro Motoyasu said Monday that his country would provide funds for the setting up an international university in Nalanda to strengthen its cultural bond with Bihar.
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By D. C. Ranatunga, Sunday Times, June 7, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Exactly fifty years ago on June 15, 1957 three scholar monks from Vajiraramaya set off on a Dharmaduta mission. Leading the delegation was Venerable Soma Thera. The other two monks were Venerable Kheminda Thera and Venerable Vinitha Thera. They formed the first Dharmaduta mission to Germany. While monks were visiting foreign countries to propagate Buddhism, this mission was different. They were the first to go to Europe on a permanent footing and establish the Buddha Sasana there.
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NDTV, June 9, 2007
Kolkata, India -- Monks of the Bhikshu Mahasabha are paying obeisance to the body of their Sangharaj Pragyajyoti Mahasthabir who died of cardiac arrest in Chittagong on April 23.
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AFP, June 8, 2007
Thimphu, Bhutan -- An impressive 68 percent of people polled in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan are happy, a survey showed yesterday, and said a focus on family and health, not work, made them so.
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IANS, June 6, 2007
Srinagar, India -- The scenic Kashmir Valley has finally woken up to its lesser known Buddhist legacies to attract tourists from across the world.
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ANI, June 2, 2007
Dharamsala, India -- A large number of youth turned out in Dharamsala to attend a discourse on Buddhism delivered by the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
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by Randeep Ramesh, The Guardian, June 3, 2007
Timphu, Bhutan -- Surrounded by alpine mea-dows and snowcapped peaks, the town of Punakha in central Bhutan bears witness to the difficulty of taking a Buddhist Himalayan monarchy into the 21st century.
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ANI, June 1, 2007
Peshawar, Pakistan -- A former chairman of the Department of Archaeology and Fine Arts of the Peshawar University has claimed that stories relating to Lord Buddha, carved in stones, were first written in Gandhara.
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Lanka Daily News, June 2, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The acceptance of Buddhism by several thousand Dalits or Untouchables of India last week, marking the 50th anniversary of the great Indian freedom activist and architect of the Indian Constitution Dr. BR Ambedkar's own acceptance of Buddhist teachings in preference to caste-ridden Hinduism, together with thousands of Dalit followers, found only brief mention in the Sri Lankan media.
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By Tenzin Choephel, Phayul, June 1, 2007
Kathmandu, Nepal -- Coming in contact with Buddhist community, one might wonder to see Buddhist devotees being spiritually more engrossing usually around this time of the year.
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by Rupa Banduwardena, Lanka Daily News, May 31, 2007
MIHINTALE, Sri Lanka -- The year 247 BC marks the introduction of Buddhism to Sri Lanka. Arhant Mahinda led the Buddhist mission to Sri Lanka during the reign of King Devanampiyatissa.
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ColomboPage News Desk, May 29, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's Sinhala Buddhist Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) party today submitted its long awaited proposals to solve the ethnic problem of the country that has taken over 65,000 lives so far.
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By Saurabh Sati, Reuters, May 30, 2007
NEW DELHI, India -- Exiled Tibetan artists in India are battling to ensure the survival of a 1,400-year-old Buddhist art form that is a significant element of the faith.
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Cybernoon, May 29, 2007
Close to 100,000 members of backward tribes vowed allegiance to Buddhism on Sunday
Mumbai, India -- Babasaheb Ambedkar smiled again after 50 years. On Sunday, May 27, close to 100,000 members of the Dalit community and 41 other tribes gathered at the Mahalaxmi Racecourse to turn their backs on an oppressive life and let a sense of freedom wash over them.
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Gulf Times, May 28, 2007
MUMBAI, India -- About 50,000 low-caste Hindus and nomadic tribespeople converted to Buddhism before a vast crowd yesterday in the hope of escaping the rigidity of the ancient Hindu caste system and finding a life of dignity. Monks in orange and saffron robes administered religious vows to the converts as about half a million spectators, mostly Buddhists, cheered the ceremony at the Mahalaxmi horseracing track in Mumbai.
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ANI, May 27, 2007
Rajarammohanpur, West Bengal (India) -- Customs officials have recovered as many as 22 rare Buddhist artefacts from an abandoned house at Panitanki located on India-Nepal border.
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by Janaka Perera, The Buddhist Channel, May 28, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- May 28th is the 50th death anniversary of the passing away of the pioneering German Theravada Buddhist monk, the Venerable Nyanatiloka Maha Thera (1878-1957). He was the first Continental European bhikku to take up residence in Sri Lanka.
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by Shobhan Saxena, TIMES NEWS NETWORK, May 28, 2007
MUMBAI, India -- In a hugely symbolic gesture that may have a long-term effect on state and national politics, thousands of tribals and Dalits converted to Buddhism at a massive gathering here on Sunday, marking the 50th year of Dr B R Ambedkar's conversion to the religion to escape the rigid Hindu caste system.
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by Shiv Sahay Singh, Express India, May 26, 2007
Kolkata, India -- The Calcutta University (CU) is all set to introduce a new course in Buddhist studies in the forthcoming academic session.
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TibetNet, May 22, 2007
Dharamshala, India -- The movement to revive Buddhism in India should not be viewed as the opening of a hostile front against Hindu society, Kalon Tripa Samdhong Rinpoche said here Saturday last.
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By Tenzin Choephel, Phayul, May 22, 2007
Kathmandu, Nepal -- The making of a statue of Amitaba Buddha (tib: Woepakme), flanked on both sides by a statue of Avalokiteshvara (Chenresig) and a statue of Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche), has been completed and was consecrated today by Lama Sherab Gyaltsen Rinpoche of Manang.
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UNI, May 15, 2007
Gangtok, Sikkim (India) -- The Sangha of Dzongu (SOD), an association of Buddhist monks, today opposed the implementation of hydel projects in North Sikkim district.
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Reuters, May 14, 2007
SOBSA, Bhutan -- Since cable television first arrived in her tiny village in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan two years ago, 55-year-old Kencho Om keeps getting in trouble with her husband for staying up late watching movies.
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Reuters, May 13, 2007
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Unidentified gunmen shot dead a senior Buddhist monk near a border separating government from Tamil Tiger territory in the island’s northeast on Sunday, a day after troops killed five rebels in separate incidents, the military said.
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AFP, May 14, 2007
For centuries, the tiny Buddhist kingdom of Mustang has been all but sealed, its ancient culture protected from outside influence, but now a new highway is threatening a major upheaval in the hidden Himalayan outpost.
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- King Jigme Palbar Bista of Mustang, who retains his title even though his realm became part of Nepal more than 200 years ago, welcomes the road as a vital link to goods and services such as health care that his 7,000 subjects have never had access to.
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By Tashi Dema, Kuensel Online, May 11, 2007
Mysore, India -- Neighbouring India is the top destination for Bhutanese students pursuing further studies but it is in Mysore, South India, where you will find the highest concentration.
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Hindustan Times, May 10, 2007
Dalai Lama to perform the rites
Mumbai, India -- India’s largest religious mass conversion will be held at Mahalaxmi Racecourse on May 27. Laxman Mane, a nomadic tribal whose autobiography Upara (Outsider) is a celebrated work of Marathi Dalit literature, will preside as lakhs of his supporters from 42 nomadic tribes convert to Buddhism. Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will perform the rites.
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TIMES NEWS NETWORK, May 10, 2007
HYDERABAD, India -- Kalachakra, the mega Buddhist event held in Amaravati last year, has left the AP tourism department chanting 'Buddham Saranam Gachami'.
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by Sujoy Dhar, Hindustan Times, May 10, 2007
New Delhi, India -- Some time during the sixth century BC, a wandering ascetic sat to meditate under a tree in the vast plains of northern India, resolving not to rise until he had attained the ultimate knowledge of spiritual enlightenment.
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IANS, May 10, 2007
Last year, miscreants cut off a branch of the tree.
Bodh Gaya, India -- The Bodhi tree at Bodh Gaya, which is sacred to millions the world over since Lord Buddha attained enlightenment there about 2,550 years ago, is threatened by an unknown disease.
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PTI, May 9, 2007
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Newly discovered murals in Nepal’s Mustang district, similar to the famed Ajanta caves, may provide an insight into art and artifacts of medieval civilization, researchers said.
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India News, May 8, 2007
Kathmandu, Nepal -- The descendant of a once powerful Tibetan kingdom is leading a drive in remote northern Nepal to renovate centuries-old Buddhist monasteries that are treasure troves of sacred manuscripts, paintings and architectural marvels.
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By Tenzin Choephel, Phayul, May 4, 2007
Kathmandu, Nepal -- A monthly study session on Tibetan Buddhism and culture has been initiated in Kathmandu by Yarlung United organization. The first such session was started here this morning at Chonjor Tibetan Community Hall in Boudha, where a large section of Tibetans reside with the Boudha Stupa standing as a popular landmark of the place.
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by Sarath Malalasekera, Sunday Observer, May 6, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Senior DIG, Jayantha Wickremaratne was elected as the first President of the newly formed Police Buddhist Society recently. CID, DIG, D. W. Prathapasinghe was elected as the First Secretary to the Society.
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by Maseeh Rahman, The Guardian, May 4, 2007
Kathmandu, Nepal -- A shepherd in a remote region of Nepal near the border with Tibet has been instrumental in the discovery of an extraordinary art treasure that lay hidden from the world for centuries - a collection of 55 exquisite cave paintings depicting the life of Buddha.
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ZeeNews, May 4, 2007
Kathmandu, Nepal -- Explorers have discovered a series of caves decorated with ancient Buddhist paintings, set in sheer cliffs in Nepal's remote Himalayan north, leaving archaeologists excited and puzzled.
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Rediff, May 2, 2007
Kushinagar, India -- President A P J Abdul Kalam on Wednesday said peace and prosperity could be achieved in the world only by following the path shown by Lord Buddha.
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Kerala Online, May 3, 2007
Kerala, India -- Buddha Purnima or Buddha Jayanti is the most sacred day in the Buddhist calendar. It is the most important festival of the Buddhists, and is celebrated with great enthusiasm.
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IANS, May 3, 2007
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- A priceless treasure trove of Buddhist teachings, manuscripts, paintings and other historical artefacts lie under grave threat, ironically from the development in remote northern Nepal.
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by Sudeshna Sarkar, TIMES NEWS NETWORK, May 3, 2007
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- The wall paintings found in the cave in Nepal depict animals like the deer, leopard and tiger which are not found in Mustang, giving rise to the theory that either the painters were Indian or people familiar with Indian techniques and life in sub-tropical regions.
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Lanka Daily News, May 2, 2007
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Vesak which marks the Birth, Enlightenment and the Passing Away (Parinibbana) of the Noble One was observed throughout Sri Lanka yesterday with fervour, piety and solemnity by millions of Buddhists.
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by Chamikara WEERASINGHE, Lanka Daily News, April 28, 2007
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- With the Vesak festival round the corner many preparations are being made throughout the country to celebrate the Birth, Enlightenment and the Passing Away of the Buddha.
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by Vinaya Kumar, Deccan Herald, April 29, 2007
The year 2007 is being celebrated as the 2,550th year of Buddha’s ‘Mahaparinirvana’. On the eve of Buddh Purnima, Vinaya Kumar reports on how Buddhism can draw foreign tourists to India in droves.
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By D.C. Ranatunga, Sunday Times, April 29, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- In recent history, we have not heard of Vesak full moon Poya day falling in April. Vesak has always been celebrated in May. One hundred and twenty two years ago, however, in 1885 Vesak Poya fell on April 28.
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by Ganesh Kanate, DNA Mumbai, April 27, 2007
Mumbai, India -- They have to bear the tag of ‘kept woman’ even after marriage, and children born out of the wedlock are ‘illegitimate’. That’s the plight of the married women of the neo-Buddhist community, which accounts for 120,000 of the state’s population. Their matrimony is not recognised by the Hindu Marriage Act. Nor do the neo-Buddhists register their marriages in accordance with the court.
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ColomboPage News Desk, April 23, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Mahanayake Theras of Malwatte, Asgiriya, Ramanna and Amarapura Maha Nikayas yesterday called on all political parties and all sections of the society to rise above differences and unite to extend cooperation and encouragement to the President, the police and the three armed forces.
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by Ananda Kannangara, Sunday Observer, Spril 22, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The "Amadahara Vesak Zone", conducted by the Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd (ANCL Lake House) to coincide with the 2551st Buddha Jayanthi festival will be held in the city of Colombo from May 1-3 commencing at 6.30 p.m. each day. A leading electrical equipment manufacturer, Orange Electrical will sponsor the program.
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By Ananda P Srestha, The Rising Nepal, April 20, 2007
Kathmandu, Nepal -- The now "historic" Teen Kune crossing, just beyond new Baneshwor, though centrally located, lies virtually neglected and uncared for after being haphazardly made up for the Eleventh SAARC Summit held in Kathmandu to remotely resemble a desert oasis of sorts with even a few palm trees implanted overnight.
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By Walter Jayawardhana, Lanka Web, April 18, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Angered by the public embracing and kissing of India’s leading actresses Shilpa Shetty by Hollywood actor Richard Gere, furious mobs in India burnt effigies of him at several demonstrations across the country.
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The News, April 16, 2007
Karachi, Pakistan -- Speakers from India and Pakistan paid tribute to Indian scholar and social activist Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar at an international seminar, “I am untouchable”.
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ANI, April 15, 2007
Kendrapara, Orissa (India) -- Over a thousand 'Dalits' have embraced Buddhism in Orissa's Kendrapara District.
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Lanka Daily News, April 7, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- In April 1953, a dream dissolved into nothingness when Ananda Mivanapalana breathed his last with tragic suddenness. His last murmured words “peace”, both harked back to his unfulfilled vision of the Shanthi Valley School and signalled the Buddhist equanimity with which he faced the inevitable.
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by Dharma Sri Abeyratne, Lanka Daily News, April 12, 2007
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- The Bank of Ceylon (BoC) donated Rs. 10 million (US$ 23,300) for the purpose of hosting the International Buddhist Conference. President Mahinda Rajapaksa received the relevant cheque from representatives of the Bank of Ceylon at Temple Trees yesterday.
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Express News Service, April 5, 2007
Patiala, India -- The Centre for Buddhist Studies, Punjabi University, organised a two-day national seminar on “Socially engaged Buddhism”, which is little known outside the precincts of the Buddhist world. The seminar began with the recorded gurbani reproduced in the hall.
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by Shirley Wijesinghe, Lanka Daily News, April 3, 2007
MATALE, Sri Lanka -- The temples should take initiative to inculcate social values among people, which are fast diminishing in the society, Sri Lanka's Provincial Councils and Local Government Minister Janaka Bandara Tennakoon said.
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By Hina Farooq, Daily Times, April 3, 2007
LAHORE, Pakistan -- To promote interfaith harmony, the government of Pakistan has arranged to celebrate Buddha’s birthday on May 24, official sources told Daily Times, on Monday.
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By Sheeraz Aslam, Pakistan Times, April 1, 2007
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Speakers here Saturday said Pakistan is a cradle of Gandhara civilization and Taxila is considered a nucleus of this period and could be a great source of regional cooperation, if properly exploited.
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APP, April 1, 2007
Rich archaeological sites fascinate Buddhist visitors
Taxila, Pakistan -- Foreign delegates attending the Gandhara Week celebrations this week visited the ancient city of Taxila where they were captivated by the rich archaeological and cultural heritage. Delegates from different countries including Korea, Japan, Thailand, Sri Lanka and China were unanimous in their observation that both public and private organisations needed to make concerted efforts to exploit the country's true potential and attract more and more tourists.
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PTI, March 26, 2007
NEW DELHI, India -- Religious tourism in the country is set to get a boost with the introduction of a special train that connects several prominent Buddhist pilgrim centres in India and Lumbini in Nepal.
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Express News Service, March 26, 2007
Pune, India -- THE two-day international seminar on the status of Pali and Buddhist studies began at the University of Pune (UoP) on Monday. The seminar is to overview the condition and growth of this language, to discuss the problems and to search for new direction and horizons in the studies and research.
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Indian Express, March 27, 2007
Spiritual leader reads rare Tibetan manuscripts, promises to start Buddhist studies
Pune, India -- The visitor's book at Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (BORI) has a blessing. It says, “With my sheer hope that this Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute will grow and proliferate much.” It is signed by the Dalai Lama.
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AFP, March 27, 2007
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- A Nepali teenager dubbed the ”Buddha Boy” has begun meditating for three years in an underground bunker and will neither sleep, eat nor drink any water during that time, supporters claimed on Tuesday.
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By Rakesh Ray, Kalinga Times, March 23, 2007
Bhubaneswar, India -- If the state government thinks that Orissa's three major Buddhist sites - Lalitagiri, Ratnagiri and Udayagiri, also known as the Diamond Triangle of the State - are familiar to the Buddhist visitors from the south-east Asian countries, then it is time to think again. For, a number of visitors from Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia have expressed their sheer ignorance about the presence of such fabulous Buddhist remains in the state.
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ColomboPage News Desk, March 22, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Application of a Buddhist monk who applied for the post of Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) has been rejected by the National Police Commission in Sri Lanka.
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The Rising Nepal, March 23, 2007
LALITPUR, Nepal -- The fourth International Youth Buddhist Conference is set to be held in Nepal from 27 to 31 March, 2007.
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Malaysia Sun (ANI), March 22, 2007
Islamabad, Pakistan -- Buddhist era settlements in the Dadu in Sindh are reportedly on the verge of extinction due to the Pakistan Archaeology Department's neglect.
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The Rising Nepal, March 21, 2007
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala has urged the lama priests to disseminate for the peace and stability of the nation while publicizing the Buddhism.
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Malaysia Sun (IANS), March 18, 2007
Bihar, India -- The long-awaited dream of setting up an international university at Nalanda, the famous Buddhist centre of learning in Bihar, is about to come true.
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By Marco Kraus, Phayul, March 13, 2007
Dharamsala, India -- It is during H. H. the Dalai Lama's spring teaching session in Dharamsala (North India) that I met the members of Tibetan Volunteers for Animals (TVA) group. They are a non-profit organization that works with a team of 6 people to create awareness among the Tibetan communities in India and Nepal about animal cruelty. This cruelty is the result of the demand for meat as food and the demand for animal fur.
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ANI, March 14, 2007
Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh (India) -- Hundreds of Tibetans on Wednesday prayed for the long life of their spiritual leader at his adopted home in Dharamshala.
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by Deborshi Chaki, CNN-IBN, March 15, 2007
Tripura, India -- Breathtaking stupas, reminiscent of Tripura's once flourishing Buddhist culture are just one type of ancient ruins that can be found in the nondescript village of Pilak.
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Patna Daily, March 15, 2007
Patna, India -- In an attempt to give impetus to tourism in Bihar, the Indian Railways is gearing up to launch a special train dubbed as Mahaparinirvan Special that would bring tourists from New Delhi to Gaya and other places falling within the realm of the Buddhist circuit, Railway officials in Patna said on Tuesday.
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India PRWire, March 14, 2007
New Delhi, India - The Indian government has entered into an agreement with the Japan Bank for International Cooperation to develop Buddhist pilgrimage sites in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh.
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Reuters, March 9, 2007
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Thirty-eight ancient Buddhist artefacts dug up by treasure hunters and smuggled to the US were officially returned to Pakistan yesterday. An alert customs officer in Newark, New Jersey, seized the shipment of artefacts, some nearly 2,000 years old, in September 2005. An investigation then began to determine where they came from, said US ambassador to Pakistan Ryan Crocker.
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Chennai Online, March 11, 2007
Nagapattinam, India -- 'A memorial for Lord Buddha would be established here to preserve the historical links between the ancient costal town and Buddhism, District Collector Tenkasi S Jawahar said here yesterday.
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Indo-Asian News Service , March 3, 2007
Patna, India -- In a bid to woo tourists from Europe and America, Bihar will showcase its famed Buddhist and Jain tourism circuits at the World Tourism Festival being held in Berlin next week.
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By Tenzin Choephel, Phayul, March 4, 2007
Kathmandu, Nepal -- His Eminence Chogye Trichen Rinpoche who passed away on 22nd January was cremated here at the premises of Jamchen Monastery, Boudha, Kathmandu today according to traditional Buddhist ritual under the direction of His Eminence Sakya Trizin Rinpoche after 40 days of his demise. He passed away at the age of 87 at his Drubkhang residence in Narayansthan, Kathmandu.
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Lanka Sunday Times, March 4, 2007
Kandy, Sri Lanka -- The visit of Ajahn Brahmawanso to Kandy was looked forward to by many people who were keen to hear him and learn something about meditation. He had two lectures in Peradeniya, on February 4, the first, in the morning at the Sri Subhodarama Bhikkhu Centre and in the afternoon at 2.30 at the Peradeniya University.
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Newindpress, February 28 2007
KANCHEEPURAM, India -- Buddhists monks have urged the government to take efforts to revive the traditions of the religion in Kancheepuram.
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Asian Pacific Post, February 27 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Colombo’s biggest Buddhist temple, Gangaramaya, is a major tourist attraction due to its stunning interiors and history. One of its main draws is a relic bone said to belong to the Buddha.
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By Diana Rowe, The Emory Wheel, Feb 27, 2007
Dharmsala, India -- Sonam Tseten, born in Tibet and now living in India, visited the Institute for Buddhist Dialects (IBD) Saturday night to debut his premier movie, "Tsampa to Pizza." (Tsampa is roasted barley flour, the traditional staple of Tibet.) The film targets Tibetan youth living in exile and seeks to inspire their repressed nationalism.
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OhMyNews, Feb 25, 2007
Back to old-school Buddhism at international chanting ceremony
Bodh Gaya, India -- The Second Tipitika Chanting Prayer Ceremony opened in Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India on Feb. 12. Over 500 monks and nuns, representing the six nations home to Theravada Buddhism (India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand), are participating in 10 days of dawn-to-dusk chanting of the Tipitika, the collected teachings of the Buddha, in the sacred Pali language.
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By Deepal V. Perera, Pix by Samantha Perera, Daily Mirror, Feb 21, 2007
Kananvila, Sri Lanka -- On a mountain top located in Kananvila off Horana, there exists an institution called Dekanduwela Meditation Training Centre, engaged in helping people to save themselves by means of controlling one's mind and self .
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by Palitha SENANAYAKE, Lanka Daily News, Feb 17, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The first instance was in 1920's when the missionaries of the Church of America acceded to a request made by the British Government to establish missionary schools in then British colony Ceylon.
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Zee News, Feb 13, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka began a protest campaign in the capital Colombo demanding that President Mahinda Rajapakse abrogate the Norway-brokered ceasefire between Tamil Tiger separatists and government troops.
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Zee News, Feb 12, 2007
Nalanda, India -- Showing special interest in the development of Buddhist spots in Bihar, Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaxing today offered monetary support in promoting the land of Buddha.
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CNA, Feb 11, 2007
New Delhi, India -- Richard Gombrich, a professor of Buddhist studies at Oxford University, praised the contributions of Buddhist nuns in Taiwan to the promotion of Buddhist doctrines, saying the influence of Buddhism has significantly increased on the island while followers of the religion have suffered from repression in many other countries.
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ANI, Feb 10, 2007
Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh (India) -- Chinese action star Max Mok Siu-Chung met 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the head of the Karma Kargyu sect of Buddhism.
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KalingaTimes Correspondent, Feb 11, 2007
Kendrapara, India -- The ancient Buddhist sites in Orissa are all set to get a facelift. The Central Government has released a sum of Rs 6 crore for preservation and beautification of these sites in different parts of the State.
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By Isuri Kaviratne, The Sunday Times, Feb 11, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Religious Affairs Ministry has handed over a report to the President on the proposed ban by the European Union of the swastika, suggesting action to prevent its implementation.
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AP, February 9, 2007
DHARMSALA, India -- Struggling through knee-deep snow at the roof of the world, Jamyang Samten scrambled behind a boulder when he heard gunshots. Who was shooting? Who had been shot? He had no idea.
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Zee News, Feb 10, 2007
Bodh Gaya, Bihar (USA) -- The holy relics of Buddha and his two chief disciples - Sariputta and Modgalyayana - were placed at the newly constructed Jaishree Mahabodhi Vihar by Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and Bihar Governor R S Gavai.
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IANS, Feb 9, 2007
New Delhi, India -- A hall built in memory of 7th century Chinese traveller Xuan Zang - will be opened Monday in Nalanda, Bihar's ancient seat of learning, in a sign of growing Indo-China friendship.
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ColomboPage News Desk, February 8, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Sri Lankan Cabinet yesterday approved the construction of an International Buddhist Centre in Rajagiriya, a suburb of Colombo.
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ANI, Feb 6, 2007
Bodhgaya, Bihar (India) -- Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has urged his followers to practise faith with reason, saying that it should not be blind.
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by CHANDER SHEKHAR SHARMA, Punjab News Line, February 6, 2007
Dharamsala, India -- While taking part in the ceremony to consecration the statues of the Buddha and his two main disciples in Bodh Gaya of Bihar, the Tibetan Spiritual Guru and Political Leader, Dalai Lama said," "We Buddhists sincerely follow the Buddha's guidance in our day to day life. For sometime, my view may be bit too much practical, seeing relics is very good, but relics may not protect us. The real protector is our own mind. Buddha made very clear that you are your own master. So therefore I think the practice the four noble truths is of paramount importance."
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IANS, Feb 7, 2007
Patna, India -- Buddhist monks, who have sought the Dalai Lama's intervention against non-Buddhist control of Bihar's Bodh Gaya temple management, are critical of his continuing silence on the issue.
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By Asuntha Edirisooriya, Sunday Times, Feb 4, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Throughout history from the time of King Dutugemunu in 1815, the holistic support and efforts towards independence of the country by Buddhist monks have always been a well known fact.
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IANS, Feb 3, 2007
Patna, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama Saturday consecrated the Buddha's relics, which were shifted from Sri Lanka, to a newly built temple in Bihar's Bodh Gaya, the birthplace of Buddhism, a senior monk said.
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Xinhua News, Jan 31, 2007
Patna, India -- Japan will offer an aid of US$560 million for infrastructure development of historical Buddhist sites in north Indian state Bihar, a senior state government official said in Patna,India today.
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Chennai Online, Feb 1, 2007
Chennai, India -- Buddha's ideals are the need of the hour to eradicate casteism and establish an egalitarian society, Tamil Nadu Finance Minister K Anbazhagan has said.
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IANS, Feb 1, 2007
Patna, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will Friday inaugurate a temple in Bihar's Bodh Gaya, the birthplace of Buddhism, a senior monk said Thursday.
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Cybernoon, January 31, 2007
Devotees recall their association with His Holiness and how much their lives have changed since
Mumbai, India -- Today at the MMRDA grounds in Bandra-Kurla hundreds will benefit from the Dalai Lama’s all-embracing aura of warmth and compassion. Those who have met His Holiness can only rave about him and those who haven’t aspire to do so. This reporter spoke to a few of those who, born to a certain religion in this lifetime, nevertheless found themselves inexplicably drawn to Buddhism in mind and in spirit.
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Indo Asian News Service, Jan 31, 2007
Jammu, India -- Jammu and Kashmir plans to showcase the magnificent Buddhist monasteries of Ladakh region in Asian countries to attract more foreign tourists.
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The Times of India, Feb 1, 2007
PATNA, India -- Fifteen Bhutanese Buddhist pilgrims were injured when their bus met with an accident while they were on their way back from Bodh Gaya, where Lord Buddha attained enlightenment.
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The Buddhist Channel, Feb 3, 2007
Timphu, Bhutan -- A highly respected Buddhist teacher, HH Shadrung Jigme Ngawang Namgyal Rinpoche (Pema Namgyel, H.H. the 10Th Shabdrung Rimpoche) has been placed under house arrest by the Royal Bhutan government. No reasons were given for his detainment.
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India News, January 30, 2007
Bodh gaya, India -- A Buddhist monk who has been crawling all the way from Tibet is now less than 50 km from Bihar's Bodh Gaya town, where Lord Buddha attained enlightenment.
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by ASHOK B SHARMA, Financial Express, January 29, 2007
NEW DELHI, India -- As India gears up to market Lord Buddha to attract global tourists, about 11 states stand to reap major benefits if they make sincere efforts to upgrade the identified circuits.
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By DAVID MUGONYI, Nationmedia.com, January 21, 2007
Dhramsala, India -- Kenya has once again denied exiled Tibet spiritual leader Dalai Lama entry into the country. His Holiness Dalai Lama was expected in the country tomorrow on a week-long private visit. However, his effort to obtain a visa from Kenya’s New Delhi embassy has hit a dead end.
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by Rabindra Seth, Express Hospitality, 16-31, Jan 2007
New Delhi, India -- Two great projects - the world's tallest Buddha at Kushinagar in UP and the revival of Nalanda University in Bihar - are now on the drawing board and are likely to be taken up in 2007. This may give India a tourist draw card as alluring as the Taj Mahal.
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PTI, Jan 25, 2007
New Delhi, India -- Lack of proper tourist infrastructure and connectivity to major Buddhist sites is depriving India of nearly US$1 billion (over Rs 4,500 crore) earning and a tourist swell of 400 percent, a study has said.
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By Tenzin Nyinjey, Tibet.net, January 24, 2007
Dharamshala, India -- Like almost every Tibetan exile, Tashi has never set his foot in Tibet, never celebrated his birthday. He has no idea when and where he was born. Perhaps his parents never told him. Tashi, however, is proud of being Tibetan, proud of being Buddhist. His cherubic face glows with pride when his non-Tibetan friends say, "Tibetans are the most religious-minded people on earth".
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Rising Nepal, Jan 25, 2007
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Speakers at an interaction Wednesday univocally stressed that peace should be the major agenda of political parties as it would help establish enduring peace in the country.
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PTI, Jan 24, 2007
Mumbai, India -- Sri Lankan Airlines today said it had held discussions with the Indian tourism department with regard to commencing flights to popular Buddhist destinations such as Bodh Gaya.
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Telegrapgh of India, Jan 18, 2007
Agartala, India -- Nobel laureate and Buddhist spiritual leader Dalai Lama today enthralled his audience in the state capital with his erudition and simplicity.
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REUTERS, January 15, 2007
KOLKATA, India -- Crowds of Indians have been lining the route of a Buddhist monk who has been prostrating himself on a year-and-a-half-long pilgrimage from Tibet to India, witnesses and religious leaders said on Monday.
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By Syed Sajjad Ali, Indigenous Herald, January 17, 2007
Agartala, India -- Tibet’s temporal and spiritual leader in exile Dalai Lama has affirmed that search for his successor was not the main issue, but the problems of Tibet. He alleged that Tibet has developed in certain areas including railway connection, but there was not ‘political freedom’ in the region.
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Newindpress, January 17 2007
VISAKHAPATNAM, India -- Buddha Mela was conducted with grandeur at the ancient Buddhist pilgrim centre in Bojjanna Konda near Anakapalle today. Buddhists performed prayers in the cave.
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PTI, January 16, 2007
Kolkata, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama today called for removing growing global tension caused by war threats, terrorism and mistrust with the spread of the teachings of Lord Buddha.
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The Associated Press, January 17, 2007
GAUHATI, India -- The Dalai Lama said Wednesday that he is opposed to extreme forms of punishment such as death by hanging in a reference to the recent execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
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By Diana Reynolds Roome, San Francisco Chronicle, January 14, 2007
Namgyal, India -- If anything good can come out of oppression and loss, I may have just witnessed it in Dharamsala. This steep, sprawling town in the Himalayan foothills of northern India is home to thousands of exiled Tibetans -- including the Dalai Lama, who lives at Namgyal, a yellow and red monastery perched on the crest of a hill and surrounded by prayer flags. I stayed in a Tibetan Buddhist nunnery at the lower edge of town, and witnessed a transformation of lives that was not just visible but palpable.
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The Hindu, Jan 15, 2007
Gere calls for expanding awareness of AIDS through education
MYSORE, India -- Hollywood star Richard Gere turned up the Tibetan settlement at Bylakuppe, near here, on Friday catching the Buddhist monks gathered at the Tashilhunpo Monastery there by surprise.
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The Telegraph, January 15, 2007
Agartala, India -- Nobel laureate and Buddhist spiritual leader Dalai Lama will arrive for a two-day visit in Tripura on Tuesday to inaugurate the fifth anniversary celebrations of Bankul Dharmadwipa High School in the South district.
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By Jai Prakash Yadav, Indian Express, January 13, 2007
Bihar Tourism shows Chinese team film on Buddhism with the Tibetan leader in it, they walk out in a huff
PATNA, India -- The show was put together with zest for the Chinese guests. They came, all 125 of them, and sat for a viewing of Buddhism: A Spiritual Journey, produced by the Bihar Tourism Department.
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By Hemant Chauhan, ANI, January 11, 2007
Dharamshala, India -- Living an exiled life in India, Tibetans are running a special school for the differently-abled Tibetan children in Dharamshala town of Himachal Pradesh.
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TIMES NEWS NETWORK, Jan 6, 2007
PATNA, India -- Railways have decided to run a Buddhist special train, Mahaparinirvan Express, to attract Buddhist pilgrims across the country.
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Indo-Asian News Service, January 3, 2007
Patna, India -- A Buddhist monk from Tibet, who is crawling all the way to Bodh Gaya in Bihar, has entered the state from neighbouring Nepal.
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By Caroline Martin, TVA, December 30, 2006
Bodh Gaya, India -- It has become an annual Dharma Woodstock: Buddhists from every sect and country have again converged at the Mahabodhi Mahavihara in Bodh Gaya, the place of the Buddha's enlightenment, for the Kagyu Monlam Chenmo.
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by Isabella Tree, The Sunday Times, December 31, 2006
With thigh-bone trumpets and rhythms played on human skulls, Tibetan Buddhism is not for the squeamish. Isabella Tree experiences a very different spirituality
Kathmandu, Nepal -- The famous all-seeing eyes of Boudhanath stupa gazed down on us as my friend Rosa unwrapped her mysterious package on the rooftop of the Saturday Cafe. She had already told me what was in it, but it was hard to believe. It seemed so gruesome, so — un-Buddhist.
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By Ugen Sherab, Gorkhapatra, Dec 29, 2006
Bodhgaya, India -- The World Peace Ceremony is a celebration of light within darkness and darkness within light, which flows with a hopeful source for world peace.
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Xinhua News, Dec 27, 2006
PERALIYA, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka marked Tuesday the second anniversary of the tsunami disaster with the prime minister calling for unity in rebuilding the nation.
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By Rajiv Kimta, ANI, Dec 27, 2006
Kullu, India -- While we are ready to welcome the year 2007 with open arms, many youngsters believing in the Buddhist philosophy are ensuring that they get married before the new year, which they believe will be 'the year of the pig' believed to be inauspicious by many individuals.
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By Shankar Acharya & Upendra Lamichhane, Kantipur Online, Dec 25, 2006
NIJGADH, BARA (Nepal) -- Ram Bahadur Bomjon, popularly known as the Buddha Boy, who had disappeared from the jungle of Ratanpuri in Bara district, nine months ago, has reappeared nearby the area.
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By Tenzin Dickyi, Phayul, December 23, 2006
New Delhi, India -- India Tourism Development Corporation The Ashok in partnership with The Foundation for Universal Responsibility (FUR) organized four days teaching on 'A first Course in Buddhism' by His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Hotel Ashok, New Delhi which commenced today.
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DPA, December 24, 2006
NEW DELHI, India -- Indian Railways is set to roll out a special train to enable foreign tourists visit Buddhist pilgrimage sites in the country, news reports said yesterday.
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by Sandeep Bhushan, NDTV News, December 22, 2006
Nalanda, India -- In the land of red flags, private senas and caste struggle lie the magnificent ruins of Nalanda. The forgotten city may soon acquire a second life with an international university planned close to the 15th century centre of learning.
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IANS, Dec 20, 2006
Kendrapada, Orissa (India) -- Hundreds of Dalits in Orissa will embrace Buddhism protesting against the alleged government failure to protect their right of entry into a temple despite a court order, a Dalit leader said Wednesday.
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By Ugyen Penjore, Kuensel Online, December 22, 2006
Timphu, Bhutan -- To be awarded the red scarf or the Bura Maap by His Majesty is a unique Bhutanese tradition that honours dedicated service and a recognition of being among the best (Dasho).
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Hindustan Times, December 18, 2006
Varanasi, India -- Tibetan Spiritual leader Dalai Lama stressed the need for following the path set by Lord Buddha for the welfare and peace of the world. Each and every human being has to come forward for the fulfillment of this goal, he said.
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Express News Service, Dec 18, 2006
Pune, India -- Global Buddhist spiritual leader Dalai Lama will pay a visit to Pune in March to attend a function as part of the nationwide celebrations of the centenary year of Gautam Buddha’s ‘Mahaparinirvana’, which began in May 2006.
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Tibet.net, December 19, 2006
Dharamshala, India -- Presiding over the World Buddhist Leaders Council, organized by the Maha Bodhi Society of India, His Holiness the Dalai Lama lauded the ongoing efforts to establish an International Buddhist Zone.
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Newindpress, December 18 2006
HUBLI, India -- To mark the golden jubilee year of Dr B R Ambedkar’s conversion to Buddhism, hundreds of Dalits along with other backward caste people embraced Buddhism, here on Sunday.
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by Mandira Nayar, The Hindu, Dec 14, 2006
Exhibition is being held at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library till February 15.
NEW DELHI, India -- It is a wheel that most "desis" really take for granted. But the chakra that appears on the National Flag in navy blue was chosen carefully for a purpose.
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ANI, December 17, 2006
Leh, Ladakh (India) -- Buddhists in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday celebrated the birth anniversary of Tsongkhapa, founder of Gelugpa, Yellow sect of Tibetan Buddhism.
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by Peter Schurmann, New America Media, Dec 17, 2006
The rebuilding of two colossal Buddhas in Afghanistan’s Pamir Valley destroyed by the Taliban is a symbolic first step in piecing back the country’s shattered past and looking toward a better future.
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Zee News, Dec 15, 2006
Tokyo, Japan -- Nalanda, the ancient seat of Buddhist learning, is set to be revived into an international university with India and Japan today deciding to cooperate in this direction.
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by CITHARA PAUL, Indian Express, December 13, 2006
Holy places in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh to benefit most with new roads, airports, tourist centres proposed
New Delhi, India -- The tourism sector in India is waiting eagerly for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Japan, starting tomorrow, with details of treaties involving Japanese investment worth Rs 5,570 crore (US$ 3.7 mil) likely to be finalised during his four-day stay.
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IANS, Dec 15, 2006
New Delhi, India -- After a troubled past, inmates of Tihar Jail here have decided to reform themselves as well as change other jailbirds' lives through Vipassana, Buddhist way of meditation.
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The Associated Press, December 9, 2006
GANGTOK, Sikkim (India) -- Dawn at Enchey Monastery is a cacophonous scene straight from Sikkim's past: Young monks chant prayers, old lamas ring bells and dozens of ordinary people pace around, spinning rows of prayer wheels.
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Newindpress, December 11 2006
SOMWARPET, India -- In India country the law which is against majority community does not have much force, said State Dalith Sangharsha Samithi leader and Kunigal PU College principal Hebbale Lingaraju.
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Tibet.net, December 6, 2006
Dharamshala, India -- Kalon Thupten Lungrig, Kalon for the Department of Education, Central Tibetan Administration, inaugurated the Tsenyi Printing Press at the Sarah Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies here last Monday.
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The Rising Nepal, Dec 5, 2006
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Participants of an interaction programme on 'Contribution of Buddhist Philosophy for World Peace' have discussed on the contribution of Buddhist Philosophy and the notion of peace propagated by Lord Gautam Buddha on world peace and economic prosperity.
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By CARLOTTA GALL, New York Times, December 6, 2006
BAMIYAN, Afghanistan -- The empty niches that once held Bamiyan’s colossal Buddhas now gape in the rock face - a silent cry at the terrible destruction wrought on this fabled valley and its 1,500-year-old treasures, once the largest standing Buddha statues in the world.
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by Smitha Nair, CNN-IBN, December 6, 2006
New Delhi, India -- Fifty years after his death, Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar still inspires Dalits and remains a larger than life figure.
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IANS, Nov 28, 2006
Patna, India -- IN A throwback to times when a journey across the Himalayas entailed adventure, hardships, and steely resolve, two monks set off from the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou on Wednesday, to retrace the steps of the seventh century Buddhist monk Xuan Zang (also known as Hieun Tsang).
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ANI, November 28, 2006
Dharamsala, India -- The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, The Dalai Lama, has concluded a five-day preaching session in Dharamsala.
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ANI, Nov 29, 2006
Its height will be second only to the Bamiyan Buddhas
SARNATH, Uttar Pradesh (India) -- A number of sculptors in Sarnath in Uttar Pradesh are busy chiselling an eighty feet tall statue of the Buddha, which will be the world's tallest Buddha statue after the ones demolished in Afganistan's Bamiyan valley under the Taliban regime.
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ColomboPage, November 29, 2006
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Sri Lankan government has initiated a project to set up a full-fledged pilgrims' rest in the sacred area of the Sanchi Chethiyagiri Temple in India for the benefit of Buddhist pilgrims from all over the world.
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ANI, Nov 23, 2006
Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh (India) -- Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama began a five-day teaching session in Dharamshala on Wednesday.
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by Priya Saxena, RxPG News Service, Nov 24, 2006
The school will be named "Japanese-Indian Friendship School". 'The project will not only help educate poor children but also strengthen Japan-India relations,'- Sane Sumi Inaba
Patna, India -- A Japanese body is constructing a school for Dalit children in a village near Bihar's Bodh Gaya, the birthplace of Buddhism.
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TIMES NEWS NETWORK, Nov 22, 2006
PATNA, India -- Bhadant Anand Mahasthavir, national president of Buddha Gaya Mahabodhi Vihar All India Action Committee, has blamed the Dalai Lama all hurdles in Indo-China relations.
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Newindpress, November 22 2006
BHUBANESWAR, India -- “There were more than 10 Ashoka stupas at a place where Buddha had preached,” wrote the famous Chinese traveller Hsuan Tsang during his visit to India in 629 BC.
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Kuensel Online, November 21, 2006
Timphu, Bhutan -- Dr. Robert Thurman, professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies at Columbia University has visited Bhutan many times since the early 90s. On his most recent visit he spoke to Kuensel on the changes he has seen, Buddhism and democracy and the alienation of Bhutanese youth from their cultural moorings.
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By Walter Jayawardhana, Asian Tribune, Nov 18, 2006
"Country lost an authority on Buddhist law and a pious monk by the passing away of Mirisse Dharmasiri Maha Thera" - The Anu Nayaka Thero of the the Ramanna Maha Nikaya the Venerable Balangod Pannawansa Thero
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Anu Nayaka Thero of the the Ramanna Maha Nikaya the Venerable Balangod Pannawansa Thero said the country lost one of the leading scholars among Buddhist monks who had an expert knowledge on the Vinaya Pitakaya of the Tripitaka , the three baskets of the Buddha Dharma and a deep knowledge of the Tamil language with the passing away of Venerable Mirisse Dharmasiri Maha Thera.
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by Kalinga Seneviratne, Inter Press Service (IPS) News Agency, Nov 20, 2006
New Delhi, India -- With support from Singapore, Japan and other countries interested in Buddhism, India's ancient Nalanda University, dating back to 5th century B.C., may soon be restored to its past glory as a primary seat of learning in Asia.
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Newindpress, November 17 2006
GULBARGA, India -- The state government has decided to constitute a Sannati Development Authority on the lines of Koodalasangama and Basavakalyana to preserve, promote and protect State’s first ever Buddhist settlement discovered during the excavations at the famous pilgrim centre Sannati in Chittapur taluk, about 85 km from here.
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ColomboPage News Desk, November 14, 2006
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Sri Lanka Ministry of Education has advised all principal monks of the temple schools, or Pirivenas, to work to fulfill the target of ordaining 2550 novice monks to commemorate the 2550th anniversary of the passing of the Buddha.
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ColomboPage News Desk, November 12, 2006
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Sri Lanka Ministry of Education has informed Zonal Directors of Education to recall the Grades Six and Ten Buddhism textbooks due to serious errors in content. The books had already been given to schools for free distribution to children.
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AFP, November 12, 2006
Bamiyan, Afghanistan -- A part of a Buddhism sutra was found inside one of the two giant Buddhas of Bamiyan, providing a hint for unveiling the mystery surrounding the creation of the statues, a Japanese news agency reported Sunday.
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by Jamie Khoo, The Star, November 11, 2006
One of Tibet’s most prominent monasteries, Gaden, was completely destroyed during the Chinese Cultural Revolution but has since re-established itself in India. JAMIE KHOO visits the new site.
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TIMES NEWS NETWORK, Nov 10, 2006
NEW DELHI, India -- Around 300,000 Dalits are estimated to have converted to Buddhism as part of 50th year celebrations of Ambedkar's deeksha, in what has again underscored a fact that Indian Buddhism has a distinct Dalit hue to it.
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Cybernoon.com, November 9, 2006
Pagodas have been an integral part of Buddhist teachings with more than 15,000 pagodas having been in existence during the great saint's time in different countries. ZARIN AMROLIA & VISHWANATH SALIAN discover the construction of the Global Pagoda in Mumbai (Bombay), India
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by Sumit Pande, CNN-IBN, November 6, 2006
New Delhi, India -- It’s a figure that will show up perhaps in the next annual census and is bound to astound many. Fifty years after Dalit messiah and the father of Indian Constitution Dr B R Ambedkar embraced Buddhism, nearly two-and-a-half-milllion Dalits have followed suit in 2006 alone.
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Telugu Portal (IANS), Nov 4, 2006
Itanagar, India -- Religious processions, chanting of prayers for global peace, tribal folk dances and songs, local sports and ethnic cuisines are some of the highlights of the sixth Buddha Mahotsava Festival that begins in Arunachal Pradesh Sunday.
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By Laura MacInnis, The Star (Reuters), Oct 29, 2006
MUMBAI, India -- Thousands of Buddhists gathered in Mumbai on Sunday to lay to rest part of the ashes and bones of Lord Buddha in a ceremony resurrected after almost 2000 years.
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By Vandana Jayasinghe, Asian Tribune, Oct 26, 2006
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Leading Buddhists monks highly appreciated the new agreement between the United National Party (UNP) and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), which signed to work together for the next two years in solving six major national issues including the on-going conflict in the country's North and East.
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The Buddhist Channel, Oct 28, 2006
Mumbai, India -- The Prime minister of India, Dr.Manmohan Singh will inaugurate the Global-Pagoda at Gorai Beach at Mumbai (Bombay) on October 29, 2006. The pagoda, said to have the largest dome structure in the world, is constructed by the International Vipassana Center based in Nashik, Maharashtra and founded by Buddhist scholar Acharya Satyanarayan Goenka.
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ColomboPage News Desk, October 24, 2006
Colombo,Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's Commissioner of Motor Vehicles and five other respondents have been summoned by the Court of Appeal to show cause for the rejection of driving license applications submitted by two Buddhist monks.
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by Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, The News (Pakistan), October 21, 2006
BAMIYAN, Afghanistan -- In a huge cavity dug into the side of a cliff, workers search through the rubble to exhume the remains of the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan.
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by Selim Saheb Ettaba, AFP, October 21, 2006
BAMIYAN, Afghanistan -- Like all Shiites, Afghanistan's Hazara minority are waiting for the reappearance of the Mahdi, but those in the Bamiyan valley are also hoping for the return of the ancient giant Buddhas torn down in 2001 by the Taliban government in a fit of iconoclastic rage.
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Patna Daily, October 17, 2006
Patna, India -- Japanese ambassador Yasukuni Enoki, his wife meet with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday. Photo by Shashi UttamJapan's ambassador to India, Yasukuni Enoki, during his two day trip to Bihar on Monday, said his government was keen on investing in the development of the Buddhist circuit in Bihar in an attempt to turn it around the choice destinations for Buddhist pilgrims from around the world.
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The Hindu, Oct 17, 2006
New Delhi, India -- Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati and her followers will embrace Buddhism after the BSP gains an absolute majority at the Centre.
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By Bappa Majumdar, The Scotsman (Reuters), Oct 17, 2006
KOLKATA, India -- More than 3,600 Buddhist antiques have been smuggled out of the eastern Indian state of Bihar in the past one year, forcing police to set up a special force to tackle the menace, officials said on Tuesday.
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PTI, Oct 14, 2006
Gulbarga, Karnataka (India) -- More than 3,000 Dalits today embraced Buddhism at an impressive ceremony here today, synchronising with the golden jubilee of Dr B R Ambedkar's conversion to Buddhism.
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By Justin Huggler, The Independent, October 13, 2006
New Delhi, India -- Across India this month, thousands of Hindus from the former Untouchable castes are converting to Buddhism in protest at the continuing discrimination they face. Mass conversion ceremonies are being held throughout the month, from Delhi in the north, to Hyderabad in the south. Organisers are claiming that more than 100,000 people have already converted.
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by Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it, October 11, 2006
“World Freedom of Conscience and Freedom of Religion Day” will be held on October 14 in Nagpur. People will be able to forsake India’s caste system by making a written statement.
New Delhi, India -- More than 100,000 Indian Dalits or outcastes are meeting on Saturday in Nagpur, Maharashtra, to publicly burn copies of the anti-conversion laws adopted by some of India’s states and express their support to anyone who wants to abandon the Indian caste system.
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By Girish Kumar Dubey, ANI, Oct 12, 2006
Varanasi, India -- Uttar Pradesh Police have arrested five people in possession of a stolen ancient Buddha idol while allegedly planning to smuggle it out of the country, said Police officials here.
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By M Rama Rao, Asian tribune, October 10, 2006
New Delhi, India -- Kanshiram is dead but the Dalit icon lives. The 72-year old bachelor, who single handedly changed the political discourse for the untouchables in the past three decades, died of protracted illness on Monday.
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PTI, Oct 9, 2006
New Delhi, India -- Exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama on Sunday appealed to the followers of Buddhism to eliminate their "destructive emotions" by practising the teachings of Buddha.
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Times of India, Oct 9, 2006
NEW DELHI, India -- The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, has warned against portraying Islam as a religion of violence, saying Muslims have been wrongly demonised in the West since the September 11 attacks.
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The Associated Press, October 8, 2006
NEW DELHI, India -- 'Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Sunday said exiled Tibetans will return home if China agrees to give the region "meaningful autonomy," and that Tibet's independence from the Communist country is not an objective of his campaign.
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by Vishvapani, http://www.ambedkar2006.blogspot.com/, The Buddhist Channel, Oct 9, 2006
According to the 2001 census there are 7.95 million Buddhists in India out of a population of 1 billion, making it the country’s fifth-largest religion. The true figure is far higher - between 20-30 million, but many do not register as Buddhists for fear of losing government concessions that are due to low-status Hindus.
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by Vishvapani, http://www.ambedkar2006.blogspot.com/, The Buddhist Channel, Oct 9, 2006
Hydrabad , India -- A hundred thousand people will become Buddhists in Hydrabad on 14th October in a huge meeting in the East Indian state of Andra Preadesh, that will include up to 400,000 people. The chief organizer is KSR Murthy, a former member of India’s parliament, the Lok Sabha.
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By Janaka Perera , Asian Tribune, Oct 9, 2006
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Buddhist organizations are urging the government to implement five proposals to arrest the decline of Buddhist values and culture in Sri Lanka. The Venerable Medagama Dhammananda of the Asgiriya Chapter, Kandy read out these proposals at a meeting held at Ananda College, Colombo on October 3.
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IANS, Oct 6, 2006
Patna, India -- Japanese Ambassador Yasukuni Enoki is slated to pay a two-day official visit to Bihar later this month to discuss the setting up of a university at Nalanda, the site of an ancient Buddhist university, and explore other investment opportunities in the state.
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AsiaNews, Oct 5, 2006
On 30 September, Chinese guards stationed at the border between China and Nepal opened fire on refugees fleeing to the mountains. Seven people were killed in the shooting, not two as initially reported.
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The Buddhist Channel, October 2, 2006
Nagpur, India -- A week-long Golden Jubilee celebration of `Dhamma Chakra Pravartan' culminated here today with a main function to mark Babasaheb Ambedkar's conversion to Buddhism 50 years ago.
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LTWA, October 2, 2006
Dharamsala, India -- With the generous financial assistance of Geshe Thupten Jinpa's Institute of Tibetan Classics, based in Quebec, Canada, the Library of Tibetan Works & Archives organized a translation workshop on Buddhist philosophy for three months from 1 July 2006 to 30 September 2006.
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Patna Daily, September 27, 2006
Patna, India -- Singapore senior state Minister for External Affairs, Balaji Sadashivan, on Tuesday, met with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in Patna and expressed his nation's interest in reviving the lost glories of Nalanda University and overall development of the Buddhist circuit in Bihar.
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International News Network, Sept 27, 2006
TOKYO, Japan -- Pakistan's Federal Tourism Minister Nilofer Bakhtiar has said that her country would host a World Buddhist Assembly next year and hoped that large number of Japanese tourists would also visit Pakistan on this occasion.
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Kuensel Online, September 27, 2006
Timphu, Bhutan -- Schools and government institutions in Thimphu will remain closed on September 28, 2006 to celebrate the Thimphu domchoe.
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By Stanzin Dawa, www.ladakhtimes.com, Sep 26, 2006
Leh, Ladakh (India) -- I am happy to see that most of the Muslims in Leh go to the Jama Masjid three times a day for "Nimaz". Couple of times I have also been to the Masjid with my Muslim friends. The peace and internal ambience was indeed soul touching they all have assembled and collectively prayed under the spiritual leadership and instruction of the Maulvi.
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By Walter Jayawardhana, Asian tribune, Spet 23, 2006
New York, USA -- The Nayaka Mahathera of the United States told the visiting President Mahinda Rajapaksa that he was tackling the country’s terrorist problem cleverly.
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CNN-IBN, September 22, 2006 at 14:22
New Delhi, India -- The Freedom of Religion (amendment) Bill 2006, which the Gujarat Assembly passed on Tuesday, has created a furore among Christians, Jains and Buddhists across the country.
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Hidustan Times, Sept 24, 2006
Mumbai, India -- Nomadic author Laxman Mane, whose autobiography Upara (Outsider) is revered in Marathi Dalit literature, will embrace Buddhism along with lakhs of his supporters next month.
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Tibet.net, September 21, 2006
Dharamshala, India -- The vice chair of the Assembly of Tibetan People's Deputies, Mrs. Dolma Gyari, is presently in Nagpur attending the two-day Dhamma Mahila Parishad (Women's Dhamma Council) which began yesterday.
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by Aditya Mehta, CNN-IBN, Sept 21, 2006
Mumbai, India -- The Buddhist community is upset at being clubbed with Hindus in the Gujarat Freedom of Religion Bill 2003 passed on Tuesday.
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By Amaninder Pal Sharma, OhMyNews, Sept 21, 2006
Outrage in Gujarat as state government passes amendment on anti-conversion law
Seoul, South Korea -- There is controversy in the Indian state of Gujarat after its government passed an amendment on Tuesday which, if approved by Governor Nawal Kishore, will mean that Buddhists and Jains are legally classified as Hindus.
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Zee News, Sept 20, 2006
New Delhi, India -- A day after Gujarat government passed a controversial amendment to include Jains and Buddhists as part of Hindu community, the move evoked sharp reactions here with national commission for minorities demanding a reversal of the decision and concerned community leaders seeking "freedom of identity".
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by Shabana Ansari/ Shobha Viswanathan, DNA India, September 21, 2006
Mumbai, India -- The Gujarat Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Bill 2006 passed by the Gujarat assembly on Tuesday has come in for criticism from people of various faiths.
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By Rajeev Khanna, BBC News, Sept 20, 2006
Buddhism will be seen by Gujarat as part of the Hindu religion
Ahmedabad, Gujarat (India) -- Christians and Muslims in the western Indian state of Gujarat have expressed resentment over an amendment in the law relating to religious conversions.
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Times of India, Sept 19, 2006
GADHINAGAR, India -- Amid vociferous protests from the opposition Congress, a bill to amend Gujarat's Anti-Conversion Act was on Tuesday passed in the state Legislative Assembly here by a voice vote.
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Dawn, Sept 19, 2006
TAXILA, Pakistan -- Pakistan harbours rich Buddhist treasure, which, with proper projection, can help turn the country into a hub of Buddhist religious and cultural tourism.
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Gujarat Global News Network, Sept 19, 2006
Ahmedabad, Gujarat (India) -- Amidst protests from Congress State Assembly today passed a Bill to give freedom to a person to change sect of his religion. The amendment clarifies that this does not constitute change in religion in the definition of act regulating religious conversions.
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Express News Service, Sept 17, 2006
Buddhists, Jains say they are not part of Hinduism; it’s a Sangh conspiracy, says rights activist
Gandhinagar, Gujerat (India) -- The two-day monsoon session of the Assembly can get a bit stormy over the Bill to amend the Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act, 2003. The sole clause incorporated in the Bill proposing to construe Jains and Buddhists as denominations of Hindu religion and therefore it’s no illegal to convert from one religion to the other, may trigger off a controversy.
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by Rajiv Pathak, NDTV, September 16, 2006
Ahmedabad, Gujarat (India) -- The Narendra Modi government has amended Gujarat's Freedom of Religion Act, which made forced religious conversions illegal in 2003.
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The Hindu, Sept 15, 2006
New Delhi, India -- Ever fancied visiting Buddhist religious places? Is travelling across India, visiting tourist and cultural destinations, one of your long-cherished dreams? If yes, the Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation has tailor-made travel programmes.
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TibetNet, September 7, 2006
Dharamshala, India -- A 10-member delegation of the US Nonviolent Peaceforce is on visit to Dharamshala, the seat of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), from 5-7 September.
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TibetNet, September 7, 2006
Dharamshala, India -- Kalon Tripa Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche will leave for Chandigarh this afternoon to attend the sixth annual conference of the Indian Society for Buddhist Studies (ISBS).
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by Vasundhara Koshy, Express India, Sept 5, 2006
New Delhi, India -- Buddhist Studies had always been a favourite with prospective DUSU (Delhu University Student's Union) office holders, especially for NSUI and ABVP candidates. This Masters programme, which originally consisted of only four papers and there were no attendance compulsions, was most sought after by politically active students. But things have changed now.
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By Samten Wangchuk, Kuensel Online, August 28, 2006
Timphu, Bhutan -- As Bhutan prepares to embrace parliamentary democracy in 2008, it should be cautious about drawing models from western democracy, says a Buddhist scholar from Thailand.
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Asian Tribune, Aug 23, 2006
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Buddhist monk, who works as a lecturer of Sri Lanka Vidyalaya, Colombo now assists rural youth to become IT specialists and seeks financial assistance to improve the vocational center.
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IANS, August 19, 2006
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- He belonged to a clan of kings and founded one of the most vibrant religions in the world - and yet, the descendants of the Buddha have become outcasts in Nepal, a new book says.
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REUTERS, August 18, 2006
TAWANG, ARUNACHAL PRADESH (India) --- At first sight, a 400-year-old Buddhist monastery, tucked deep in the Himalayas in a remote corner of India's northeast, hardly seems like a highly coveted piece of real estate.
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People's Daily, Aug 18, 2006
Bamiyan, Afghanistan -- Roqya sits quietly with her four children in front of the cave in which her family resides, about 100 metres east of the ruins of the gigantic Bamyan Buddha Statue in central Afghanistan.
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Reuters, August 17, 2006
Monks from a right-wing Buddhist faction storms stage during peace rally, shouting pro-war slogans.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- A scuffle broke out Thursday between saffron-robed monks and anti-war demonstrators at peace rally in Sri Lankan capital.
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By Phurbu Thinley, Phayul, August 14, 2006
Dharamsala, India -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama today began a 5 day long teaching at the special request by a group of around 200 from Korea from morning 9:30 local time here at the Tsuglagkhang Temple in the Northern Indian hill town of Dharamsala.
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Source: Sinhale News, The Buddhist Channel, Aug 11, 2006
Steps to protect and foster Buddhism needed
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Poson Poya which gave us the Buddha Sasana as well as Buddhist culture and civilisation is a good occasion to discuss steps that should be taken to protect and foster the Sasana here at home.
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Xinhua News, Aug 9, 2006
Bamiyan, Afghanistan -- Some workers are clearing and sorting out the pieces of the two best-known disrupted Bamyan Buddha statues in central Afghanistan's Bamyan province, and an official told Xinhua a possible project of rebuilding the statues may be wrapped up by the end of 2009 if everything goes smoothly.
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by Janaka Perera, The Buddhist Channel, Aug 9, 2006
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Despite approval by Sri Lanka’s telecommunication authorities for a Buddhist radio and television channel planned four years ago, it has still received no green light. Despite President Mahinda Rajapaksa approving the project, the State’s Information and Media Ministry is stubbornly opposing it, according to R. M. Navaratne, Editor of the Sinhala Buddhist Publication, Dhamsara.
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by RAHIM FAIEZ, The Scotsman, Aug 7, 2006
BAMIYAN, Afghanistan -- Five years after the Taleban blew them up, Afghan labourers are picking up the pieces of two once-towering Buddha statues, hoping they will rise again and breathe new life into the poverty-striken Bamiyan province.
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PTI, August 2, 2006
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Millions of believers today flocked to various temples and roadside Buddha statues and held up traffic for long hours after word spread that "miracle rays" could be seen emanating from coloured images of the Buddha.
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India eNews, July 31, 2006
Patna, India -- Hundreds of Buddhist monks marched in this Bihar capital Monday to protest the alleged chopping of a branch of the holy Mahabodhi tree, grown from the original banyan tree under which the Buddha attained enlightenment 2,500 years ago.
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Indo-Asian News Service, July 30, 2006
Patna, India -- Buddhist monks have questioned the non-Buddhist control over the management of the 1,500-year-old Mahabodhi temple in Bihar's Bodh Gaya town. The monks have also accused non-Buddhists of chopping off a branch of the holy Mahabodhi tree and selling its leaves to an international mafia.
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Patna Daily, July 24, 2006
Bodh Gaya, India -- Denying that a branch of the historical Mahabodhi tree in Bodh Gaya under which Lord Buddha attained enlightenment over 2,500 years ago was recently cut off, the temple management said the news was not true and the branch in question was in fact chopped off over 30 years ago under the directions of noted horticulturists of that time.
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ColomboPage News Desk, July 21, 2006
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The United States today announced that it will provide technical assistance to create a language and information technology (IT) resource center to train 400 members of the Buddhist clergy in the English and Tamil languages and IT, as well as to introduce peace-building tools and techniques.
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Bangkok Post, July 20, 2006
New Delhi, India -- A group of unknown miscreants cut off a branch from a 110-year-old Buddhist holy tree in India's eastern Bihar state, news reports said Thursday.
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Bangkok Post, July 20, 2006
New Delhi, India -- A group of unknown miscreants cut off a branch from a 110-year-old Buddhist holy tree in India's eastern Bihar state, news reports said Thursday.
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AP, July 18, 2006
Dalai Lama's age dims hopes for achieving free nationhood
DHARAMSALA, India -- Time, Tibetan exiles fear, is running out. As the Dalai Lama ages, their dreams of returning to a free Tibet are slowly being crushed by a realization that they face a long bleak period without an international icon to plead their case before the world and keep them united.
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Indo-Asian News Service, July 15, 2006
Shimla, India -- A fire in a 1,000-year-old Buddhist temple in a remote valley of Himachal Pradesh has reduced the pinewood-structure to ashes and also destroyed a number of scriptures, artefacts and murals, officials said.
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By Walter Jayawardhana, Lankaweb, July 13, 2006
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) terrorists fired at Buddhist monks who went to the Mahaveli Ganga with an army and police escort, July 9 about 4.30 p.m., the Sri Lanka Army said.
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By Syed Zarir Hussain, Indo-Asian News Service, July 9, 2006
Gangtok, Sikkim (India) -- Little Khepuk Bhutia, a tribal Buddhist monk in the eastern state of Sikkim, is a football fanatic, wearing a T-shirt embossed ZZ (Zinedine Zidane) beneath his maroon robe. And on Sunday when France and Italy clash in the World Cup finals, nine-year-old Bhutia will stay awake hoping his favourite team wins.
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by Prakash Dubey, AsiaNews.IT, July 7, 2006
The Sino-Indian deal to reopen the “Gateway to the Silk Road” will bring economic advantages to the region and to both governments, but it will deal a fatal blow to any hope Tibetan exiles loyal to the Dalai Lama have of going home.
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THT Online, July 8, 2006
Kathmandu, Nepal -- The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation (MoCTCA) in cooperation with Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) has unveiled Buddhist circuits to Chinese tour operators amid a programme in Beijing, on July 5.
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By Syed Zarir Hussain, Indo-Asian News Service, July 4, 2006
Gangtok, Sikkim (India) -- Thirty-nine-year-old Karma Lama, a Buddhist monk, is engrossed in deep meditation inside the Enchey monastery in India's eastern state of Sikkim.
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TibetNet, June 30, 2006
Dharamshala, India -- In addition to promoting Buddhism in general and, in particular, overcoming the challenges before the Gaden tradition of (Tibetan) Buddhism, the limitations put on the worship of Dorjee Shugden, by the Great 5th Dalai Lama, (former) Gaden Tripa Ngawang Chokden and many other great lamas down the ages must be sustained conclusively, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has said, in his message to a religious conclave of the heads and representatives from all the great monastic seats, here at the Norbulingka today.
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By Janaka Perera, Asian Tribune, June 30, 2006
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- A major conference will be held at Kandy on July 1 to discuss the formation of a Buddhist-Hindu brotherhood. All Buddhist and Hindu organizations in the Kandy District will be represented at this meeting, which will be held at the Sri Palipana Chandrananda Memorial International Buddhist Conference Hall, Asgiriya.
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by Amrit Dhillon, The Age, June 27, 2006
New Delhi, India -- When a trade in yak tails, China clay, goatskin, and molasses resumes early next month high in the Himalayas on the Indo-Chinese border, it will signal the revival of an ancient piece of history — the famed Silk Road that linked China and India for a thousand years.
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IANS, June 26, 2006
DHARAMSALA, Himachal Pradesh (India) -- The Tibetan government-in-exile has welcomed the decision of the Canadian government to grant honorary citizenship to Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.
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by Janaka Perera, The Buddhist Channel, June 25, 2006
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Law Commission of Sri Lanka has handed over to President Mahinda Rajapaksa a draft bill on establishing a National Animal Welfare Authority in Sri Lanka. The bill – result of a six-year effort - proposes revolutionary legislation to replace the 99-year-old archaic law introduced during the British colonial period to prevent cruelty to animals. The proposed legislation – result of a six-year effort - calls for the strict enforcement of jail terms plus fines for anyone found guilty of cruelty to animals. The proposed law empowers magistrates to give both punishments.
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TibetNet, June 23, 2006
Dharamshala, India -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama will grace the inaugural and closing ceremony of a 3-day Tibetan Buddhist conference organised by the Religion and Culture Department of the Central Tibetan Administration.
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BBC, June 21, 2006
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The head monk of a Buddhist temple has contradicted a Sri Lankan government report that the Tamil Tigers attacked his temple. The monk told the BBC that shots had been fired at a sentry point, not at the Somawathi shrine itself, 170km (105 miles) north-east of Colombo.
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MIL/Agencies, June 20, 2006
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's government has accused Tamil Tiger rebels of attacking a historic Buddhist temple in the eastern region. A government statement said that on Monday the rebels had fired small arms towards the Somawathi Shrine, about 170 km northeast of Colombo. The rebels fled after security forces guarding the shrine returned fire, the statement said.
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by Tarannum Manjul, Lucknow Newsline, June 14, 2006
State Archaeology Dept to undertake 6-month tour of countries that Buddha's disciples visited after Sarnath Tour
Lucknow, India -- The country may be busy celebrating the 2550th year of Buddha’s Mahanirvan. But grey areas abound on how Buddhism spread across the globe after Buddha’s first sermon at Sarnath.
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By Elizabeth Dalziel, AP, June 12, 2006
NEW DELHI, India -- Looking to cash in on those seeking spiritual enlightenment, Indian tourism authorities plan to highlight the country's rich Buddhist heritage to attract tourists in the run-up to 2,550th anniversary of Buddha's birth in November.
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By Simon Denyer, Reuters, June 11, 2006
GANGTOK, India -- A group of shaven-headed boys dressed in maroon robes stand nervously under a tree clutching Buddhist texts, waiting their turn to show their mastery of the Tibetan scriptures to a stern-looking monk.
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TNA, June 8, 2006
BANGKOK, Thailand -- A panel of Thailand's top monks from significant Buddhist temples across the country's capital--Bangkok-offered a prayer in honour of His Majesty the King Thursday evening, marking the auspicious occasion of the beloved monarch's 60 years on the throne.
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Phayul, June 9, 2006
Sanglha, India -- An obscure yet ancient Buddhist monastery, in the Lahaul-Spiti area of Sanglha in northern India, was formally restored after His Holiness the Dalai Lama led a consecration ceremony there on June 8.
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AFP, June 7, 2006
DHARAMSALA, India -- Two Buddhist nuns eagerly awaited an audience with the Dalai Lama yesterday after a dramatic escape into exile from Tibet where they suffered years of imprisonment at the hands of the Chinese.
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The Telegraph (India), June 2, 2006
Project to focus on villages inhabited by descendants of 13th century migrants
Jorhat, India -- Three villages, 100-odd families, a wonderful tapestry of culture and traditions, and a history that goes back 700 years - Assam has just discovered a tourism goldmine.
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by Muzaffarnagar, Press Trust of India, June 3, 2006
Uttar Pradesh, India -- As many as 500 Hindu dalits reportedly converted to Buddhism at a ceremony supervised by the Buddhist Society of India in Saharanpur district.
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India eNews.com, June 3, 2006
Dharamsala, India -- A group of Tibetan political prisoners, including two nuns, are set to arrive in Dharamsala, a town in Himachal Pradesh, to meet spiritual leader the Dalai Lama days after their dramatic escape to Nepal.
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by ASHISH SINHA, The Telegraph (India), May 30, 2006
Patna, India -- President of India A.P.J. Abdul Kalam called it renaissance as part of his “mission for Bihar’s prosperity” and Nitish Kumar seems to have taken the idea seriously. If things go according to plan, then the process initiated by the chief minister will bear fruit to give Bihar an international, multi-discipline university near Nalanda.
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by Ravi Teja Sharma, Business Standard, June 1, 2006
The long-neglected Buddhist circuit is finally set for a makeover, with a little help from friends.
New Delhi, India -- Buddhism was born in India and many of the most revered Buddhist pilgrimage sites are in India but, ironically, the Buddhist circuit has been badly neglected by the tourism authorities.
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Bloomberg News, MAY 31, 2006
New Delhi, India -- Japan will assist India in building roads and airports to improve access to Buddhist sites in India, helping it attract more tourists.
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by Aarti Aggarwal, TIMES NEWS NETWORK, June 1, 2006
VARANASI, India -- What do the Dalai Lama's ornate robes, kimkhabs used in Hollywood costumes, the rich brocades adorning Tibetan monastries in India and abroad and exquisite dragon fabrics available across Buddhist centres have in common? Varanansi. Amazing but true. The source of all this fabric is temple city of Benaras.
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by Hiran H. Senewiratne, Lanka Daily News, May 31, 2006
CHENNAI, India -- Vesak is the holiest day in Buddhism and it marks the birth, the Enlightenment, and the passing away of the Buddha. This day is celebrated all over the world and in Chennai too Vesak was celebrated in grand style.
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By Kalsang Rinchen, Phayul, May 29, 2006
Dharamshala, India -- The Dalai Lama will represent Buddhism at an interfaith discussion in Brussels tomorrow. Representatives from various faiths will meet in Brussels to participate in a discussion on 'fundamental rights and mutual respect'.
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PIB, May 29, 2006
New Delhi, India -- To attract the overseas tourist, particularly from South East Asia, the Ministry of Tourism is planning to launch a concerted campaign for promotion of Buddhist sites of India. As a part of this programme, Ministry of tourism has also decided to celebrate the 2550th Birth Anniversary of Lord Buddha in 2006. This was informed by Smt. Ambika Soni, Minister for Tourism and Culture to members of Parliamentary Consultative Committee attached to her Ministry here today.
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IOL, May 22, 2006
New Delhi, India -- Tibet's exiled leader, the Dalai Lama, will honour South African Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and comic book character Tintin for promoting understanding of his homeland at a ceremony in Brussels next month, an official at the Buddhist leader's office in the northern Indian town of Dharamshala said on Sunday.
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PIB India, May 18, 2006
New Delhi, India -- The Tourism Department is extending central financial assistance for development of tourism infrastructure for various Buddhist sites in the country and has spent Rs. 93.47 crore between 8th –10th plan till date.
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by Supriya Rai, DNAindia.com, May 15, 2006
Dharmsara, India -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama often imparts teachings on the ‘Bodhisattvacharyavatara’ (A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life), an 8th century text by Shantideva, the Buddhist master from Nalanda.
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by Thomas Kent, Spero News (UCA News), May 15, 2006
Arunachal Pradesh, India -- For boys who grow up as Buddhist monks in remote Himalayan monasteries in northeastern India, spiritual discipline is tempered by home memories and attractions outside the walls of the monastery.
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by PK Balachandran, Hindustan Times, May 20, 2006
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's Buddhist economists say that the cure for world-wide ills like poverty, inequality, insecurity and violence lies in abandoning Western economic theories and models and adopting Buddhist economics - economic principles enunciated by Gautama Buddha, 2550 years ago.
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Daily Times, May 16, 2006
LAHORE, Pakistan -- The Pakistan government formally handed over on Monday a sculpture of the Fasting Buddha to the Sri Lankan government to be placed in one of the main temples in Colombo for public homage during Vesak, the holiest month of the Buddist calendar.
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The Rising Nepal, May 5, 2006
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- The Lumbini Bauddha University (LBU) is set to run Ph.D. course in Buddhism aiming to address the crunch of teaching manpower on the subject at the higher level.
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By ANAND S T DAS, India Express, May 3, 2006
Chandigarh, India -- Astute politician and avowed Buddhist and Gandhian, Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile Dr Samdhong Rinpoche, believes China’s Communist rulers are not so much an enemy, as the rest of the world and, perhaps, the majority of Tibetans believe they are.
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By DILIP GANGULY, The Associated Press, May 3, 2006
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- President Mahinda Rajapakse called Tuesday for immediate peace talks with Tamil Tiger rebels, saying his tiny tropical island had seen enough violence.
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by PK Balachandran, The Hindustan Times, May 1, 2006
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Anagarika Dharmapala, the famous Sri Lankan Buddhist leader who spearheaded a successful movement to revive Buddhism and Buddhist culture in his island country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, had also urged the Hindus of India to return to Buddhism.
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By Zahid Hameed, Daily Times, April 25, 2006
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The weeklong Gandhara celebrations began in the capital on Monday to promote the rich history of the civilisation and to attract foreign tourists.
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TIMES NEWS NETWORK, April 25, 2006
PATNA, India -- Citizens of China would be disappointed to know that a Boeing-747 aircraft cannot land in Patna. According to China's ambassador to India Sun Yuxi, quite a few rich Chinese would like to visit Bihar's Buddhist spots provided they are able to bring in a big plane at least up to Patna.
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Hindustan Times, April 24, 2006
Varanasi, India -- The tourism department has geared up for the two-day ‘Buddha Mahotsav’ to be held here in Sarnath on May 13 and 14 to mark the festival of 2550 Buddha Jayanti. Hectic preparations have begun for the grand success of the festival.
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By Soma Mitra, New Kerala, April 24, 2006
Kolkata, India -- An Indian couple is on a motorbike journey from Kolkata to Charagiri in Orissa to campaign for the release of the Tibetan Buddhist monk--Panchem Lama-- and espousing the cause of Tibetan refugees.
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By Srikant, New Kerala, April 24, 2006
Gaya, India -- It's another fresh morning in Gaya, the holy city, and children are busy reaching schools and their parents hurrying up to reach offices or shops. But the mongrels here are eagerly awaiting their daily audience with a frail woman-Adrina Ferranti--who has spent a large part of life tending to the sick and suffering strays of the holy city.
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Greater Kashmir Online, April 24, 2006
Jammu, Kashmir (India) -- The Indian Central govenrment has made an allocation of Rs.9.14 crore (US$ 2.12 mil) for Central Institute of Buddhist Studies, Ladakh for the current financial year.
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By Kinley Y Dorji, Kuensel Online, April 21, 2006
Timphu, Bhutan -- A team from the Honolulu Academy of Arts and Bhutanese iconography experts are jointly studying and identifying ancient artefacts like thangka (scroll paintings), bronze and ritual objects which would be exhibited in Honolulu, USA in 2008.
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by Maneesh Pandey, TIMES NEWS NETWORK, April 16, 2006
RAJGIR, India -- Those who thought Bihar and development do not gel, may have to rethink. Buddha has smiled on the state, finally. The Union tourism minister Ambika Soni's grand plans to develop the Buddhist circuit by laying world class road network, construct modern budget and higher-end hotels, facilitating direct rail links and air services to Bodh Gaya speaks of nothing, but turning of the wheel.
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By DILIP GANGULY, Associated Press, April 12, 2006
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's most celebrated elephant, "Raja," has fallen ill after eating scores of cookies, chocolates and other rich food offered to him as part of Buddhist new year celebrations.
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The Buddhist Channel, April 12, 2006
Kandy, Sri Lanka -- A call has been made to India to declare Vesak as a public holiday. In a letter to the country's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Ken and Visakha Kawasaki said that it was shocking that India does not celebrate Vesak.
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Times of India, April 7, 2006
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- On the remote edges of Nepal's cold desert of Mustang lives a Tibetan monk with a dream — and a camcorder. Setting out to do what no lama from Mustang has done before, Pasang Gurung has made a film in hopes of attracting Westerners — and their dollars, euros and pounds — to his picturesque, but impoverished, homeland.
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Newindpress, April 8 2006
GULBARGA, India -- A large number of dalits will embrace Buddhism on October 14, to mark the beginning of the year-long golden jubilee celebrations of Dr B R Ambedkar.
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The Rising Nepal, April 6, 2006
LALITPUR, Nepal -- Minister of State for Health and Population Mani Lama inaugurated a free health camp organised jointly by the Gorkha Hospital and Research Centre and the National Buddhist Federation, at Subarna Chhatrapur Bihar in Lubhu VDC in Lalitpur district, today.
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Newind Press, April 8 2006
BIJAPUR, India -- Acharya Vodhi Dhamma of the International Buddhist Youth Organisation, Nagpur, has said that he will undertake an awareness ‘yatra’ in June to create awareness against discrimination in society on the basis of state, caste and religion.
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by Clifford Coonan and Jan McGirk, The Independent, April 4, 2006
Beijing, China -- The Dalai Lama could be on the verge of a historic visit to the remote, mountainous homeland that the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader has not seen for nearly 40 years, following indications from the Chinese government that dialogue may, at last, be leading to a rapprochement.
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Indo Asian News Service, April 4, 2006
Shimla, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama could soon be the brand ambassador of the hill state of Himachal Pradesh, state Tourism Minister G.S. Bali said here Tuesday.
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by Tarannum Manjul, Express India, March 31, 2006
Culture dept appoints new director, so old OSD-cum-officiating director locks up office, takes keys and goes on leave
Lucknow, India -- Anuradha Goyal, joint director in the department of culture, was supposed to take over as director of the Acharya Narendra Dev International Buddhist Research Institute on March 13 this year.
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TibetNet, March 27, 2006
Dharamshala, India -- The Tibetan Medical and Astro Institute (TMAI) celebrated its 45th founding anniversary on 23 March 2006. The chief guest for the occasion was Mr. Tenpa C. Samkhar, Secretary for the Health Department of the Central Tibetan Administration.
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IANS, March 24, 2006
Shimla, India -- Hollywood star Richard Gere is keen to repair a narrow potholed mountain road leading to the house of Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala town. Legislator Vijay Singh Mankotia said this in the Himachal Pradesh assembly Friday.
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By Sassanka Samarakkody, Gulf Times, March 21, 2006
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Thousands of Buddhist monks will stage a rally in Colombo today demanding the immediate withdrawal of Norway as facilitator to the peace process between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
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BBC, March 20, 2006
Bara, Nepal -- A missing Nepalese teenager popularly known as "Buddha Boy" reappeared briefly on Sunday, his followers say. The committee managing the meditation site of Ram Bomjan, 16, released video of its members purportedly meeting the boy near his village in southern Nepal.
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By KEE HUA CHEE, The Star, March 18, 2006
On Oct 15, 2001, Mahasiddha Geshe Lama Konchok, a high-ranking Tibetan lama, passed away and the newborn baby Ngodrup was identified as his reincarnation. On Jan 12 this year, the Dalai Lama ordained the child. StarWeekend attended the enthronement ceremony in Nepal on March 3.
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Tesi Environmental Awareness Movement (TEAM), March 17, 2006
Dharamsala, India -- A special Prayer Vigil led by Buddhist nuns from Shugseb Nunnery will be held today in McLoed Ganj, Dharamsala, for all the deceased wildlife whose lives were lost to satisfy Tibetan demand for their skins and other body parts.
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ICNS, March 17, 2006
Dharamsala, India -- More than 1,000 Tibetans vowed not to use skins of endangered wildlife species and donated scores of chubas (traditional Tibetan over coats). This was part of a special campaign to save wildlife, following an appeal from the Dalai Lama.
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The Himalaya Times, March 14, 2006
Bara, Nepal -- No clue has been found on the 'meditating Buddha boy' Ram Bahadur Bamjan, who went missing on Saturday from the Charkose Jhadi at Ratanpuri of Bara where he was meditation under a peepal tree 'without food and water' for the past 10 months, till early morning.
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Gulf Times (AFP), March 14, 2006
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka will hold a mass ordination of monks to mark the arrival of Buddhism in the island nation 2,550 years ago as well as staff dozens of temples faced with closure, an organiser said yesterday.
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Kantipur Report, Photos by Shankar Acharya, March 12, 2006
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- The 16-year old teenager Ram Bahadur Bomjon, who had been meditating without any food or water in the jungles of Ratanpuri village in Bara district, and had disappeared under unknown circumstances in the early hours of Saturday morning, has still not been found.
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by Indra Adhikari, Nepalnews.com, Mar 12, 2006
Kathmandu, Nepal -- Missing from his well-known meditation site - at the lap of a peepal tree in the forest of Rantapuri in the southern district of Bara - for more than 24 hours, 16-year-old Ram Bahadur Bomjan - popularly known as 'Little Buddha' - continues to make headlines in major media outlets around the world.
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Indo-Asian News Service, March 10, 2006
Shimla, India -- The Dalai Lama has expressed a wish to go on a pilgrimage to Buddhist sites in China. The Tibetan spiritual leader, speaking in Dharamsala, the seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile, said: "I wish to go on pilgrimage to prominent Buddhist sites in China."
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by PANKAJ SARMA, The Telegraph, March 7, 2006
Team documenting monasteries finds wealth of information on spread of religion
Guwahati, India -- A newly-discovered Tai translation of the Ramayan has thrown new light on the synthesis of Hindu elements and Buddhism in the Northeast.
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Silicon India, March 6, 2006
NEW DELHI, India -- The Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, has thrown a lifeline to India's dwindling tiger population after an emotional appeal to outlaw the trade in animal skins provoked an extraordinary reaction in his homeland.
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ANI, March 2, 2006
Dharamshala India -- It was a joyous occasion for all Tibetans, as the people from Tibet are colloquially addressed, who conducted special prayers to mark "Losar" or, the beginning of a new year this Tuesday.
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UNI, March 2, 2006
Itanagar, India -- Chongkham, the circle headquarters of Lohit district in Arunachal Pradesh, seems to be in a riot of colours as the much awaited three-day mega tourism extravaganza Buddha Mahotsava is going to be celebrated here from March 13 next.
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AP, Feb 26, 2006
Dharmsala, India -- Tibetan and Chinese officials met this month in southern China and, while fundamental differences persist, there is a growing understanding between the two sides, the Dalai Lama's special envoy said.
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PTI, Feb 21, 2006
NEW DELHI, India -- The Uttar Pradesh Government proposes to embark upon a major programme with the help of Japan Bank of International Cooperation for development of Buddhist Centres in the state to attract foreign tourists in a big way, Rajya Sabha was informed today.
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by R.K. Radhakrishnan, The Hindu, Feb 21, 2006
It will wind its way through India and end in Sri Lanka
CHENNAI, India -- Sri Lanka has mooted the idea of a Buddhist pilgrimage trail to attract tourists from China, Japan and Korea.
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Lanka Business Online, 22 February 2006
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka is planning to issue a series of coins to commemorate the upcoming 2550th Buddha Jayanthi, but details are still being worked out, officials said.
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Zee News, Feb 13, 2006
Gaya, India -- Buddhist spiritual leader Dalai Lama would inaugurate the week-long 2550th birth anniversary celebrations of Lord Buddha, organised by the Mahabodhi Society at Kalchakra Maidan in Bodh Gaya today.
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WebIndia123, February 13, 2006
New Delhi, India -- The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has committed Rs 1000 crore for the development of infrastructure linking places of Buddhist importance even as the India Tourism is all set to launch "walk with the Buddha" campaign, coinciding with the 2500th anniversary of Mahaparinirvana of Buddha, to promote Buddhist sites in a big way among the domestic and foreign tourists.
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Chosun Ilbo, Feb 10, 2006
Varanasi, India -- An ecumenical group of Korean women drew praise from no less a figure than the Dalai Lama when they visited the Tibetan spiritual leader in exile in northern India. The Dalai Lama said he was happy to see the group make a pilgrimage to achieve harmony among different religions and peace in the world.
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Reuters, Feb 10, 2006
SRINAGAR, India -- Authorities imposed a curfew for the second straight day on Friday in a mountain town in Indian Kashmir following clashes between Buddhists and Muslims sparked by allegations a Koran was desecrated, police said.
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By G.Dubey, NewKerala, Feb 7, 2006
Varanasi, India -- The Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama arrived on Monday here on a five-day visit to participate in various programmes at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies at Sarnath beginning today.
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Hindustan Times, Feb 7, 2006
Varanasi, India -- TIBETAN SPIRITUAL leader Dalai Lama said on Tuesday that the welfare of the world and peace was possible only when human beings co-existed with love and affection.
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PTI, Feb 8, 2006
Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh (India) -- Sri Lankan Agriculture Minister Chaman Rajapakse, today offered prayers at the famous Buddhist piligrimage at Sankisa here and donated a golden dome worth Rs 10 crores to the stupa.
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TibetNet, February 08, 2006
Dharamshala, India -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama will inaugurate a 3-day Tibetan Buddhist conference organised by the Religion and Culture Department of the Central Tibetan Administration.
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PTI, February 7, 2006
Varanasi, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama arrived on a five-day visit here to participate in various programmes at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies at Sarnath scheduled from Tuesday.
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e-Kantipur, Jan 27, 2006
Kathmandu, Nepal -- Braving the cold wave in the Terai that has already claimed dozens this winter, Ram Bahadur Bomjon, known as the Buddha Boy, is continuing his meditation wearing just a thin cloth. Eight months have already passed since he began his "deep meditation" but the confusion whether he has really not eaten or drunk anything during this period is still unresolved. It has been claimed that the 16-yr-old has not drunk even a single drop of water since he began his meditation on May 17, last year.
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NewKerala, Jan 22, 2006
Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh (India) -- The Uttar Pradesh Government's decision to demolish illegal structures at the temple, dedicated to Lord Buddha here has invited the wrath of Buddhist monks. They are now all set to protest against the decision.
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Newindpress, January 18, 2006
GUNTUR, India -- The two-week-long Kalachakra empowerment rituals ended on Tuesday with the immersion of sand mandal in the river Krishna by Buddhist monks at Amaravati.
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By Narendra, NewKearal, Jan 17, 2006
Amravati, Andhra Pradesh (India) -- The 10-day-long global congregation of Buddhist monks in Amravati in Andhra Pradesh has concluded.
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The Hindu, Jan 18, 2006
The statue, which was to come up at Handigondi resides in an area that is habitat to several rare species of birds. It is home to sloth bears, hares and packs of jackals
Karnataka, Bangalore (India) -- The 700-foot tall monolithic Buddha statue planned to be carved out of the rocks at Ramanagaram by the Bangalore-based Sanghamitra Foundation, is not likely to materialise.
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Newindpress, January 17 2006
AMARAVATI, India -- The Dalai Lama has announced a Rs 30 lakh (US$ 67,000) aid for the 125-feet Dhyana Buddha project on the banks of River Krishna.
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Newindpress, January 16 2006
VIJAYAWADA, India -- Amaravati, one of the ancient holy towns in the country, will get a face-lift soon. Chief Minister YS Rajasekhar Reddy responded positively to the plea made by Dalai Lama in this regard. Dalai has been insisting on developing the village into an international Buddhist centre.
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Business-Standard, January 13, 2006
Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh (India) -- Amid solemn ritual and dance performed by the monks of Namgyal monastery in traditional attires, the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in the early hours of Wednesday, invoked 722 deities, including the principal deity of Kalachakra, and invited them to enter and stay in the ‘mandala’, a symbolic sand figure of purified universe and its beings.
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Tibet News, January 11, 2006
Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh (India) -- The Dalai Lama opened the Kalachakra teachings this week in Amravati, India, with a powerful statement urging Tibetans from inside Tibet to tell Tibetans when they return about the importance of the 'Middle Path' approach towards a genuine autonomy for Tibet.
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Newindpress, January 12, 2006
AMARAVATI, Andhra Pradesh (India) -- Buddhist monks attending the Kalachakra Empowerment took out a colourful procession here today with their presiding deity Gyava Chamba.
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by Sunil C.Perera, Asian Tribune, Jan 12, 2006
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- A Scotland based Buddhist Temple has launched number of tsunami development projects for the affected people in various parts of Sri Lanka with the assistance of the government and various international donors.
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Newindpress, January 12, 2006
AMARAVATI, Andhra Pradesh (india) -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has brought to the notice of the Dalai Lama alleged forcible religious conversions.
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By Baldev Chauhan, BBC News, Jan 11, 2006
Tibetan Buddhists are against preserving bodies
Shimla, India -- Buddhist monks in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh have decided to preserve the body of their master so he can be worshipped forever.
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Newindpress, January 11, 2006
AMARAVATI, Andhra Pradesh (India) -- The only way to gain happiness is to put others before self, observed the Dalai Lama here on Tuesday. Delivering a discourse on Acharya Nagarjuna’s, Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way, on the third and concluding day, he said every sentient being wants happiness and wants to keep away from suffering.
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Newindpress, January 11, 2006
AMARAVATI, Andhra Pradesh (India) -- The inauguration of The Amaravati Museum and Interpretation Centre by the Dalai Lama here yesterday is part of the State Government’s ambitious plan to develop the Lower Krishna Valley Buddhist Circuit at a cost of Rs 20 crore.
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PTI, Jan 10, 2006
New Delhi, India -- Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today chaired a meeting of National Committee on commemoration of the 2550th anniversary of reincarnation of Lord Buddha.
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New Kerala, Jan 9, 2006
Guntur, Andhra Pradesh (India) -- Spiritual Tibetan leader Dalai Lama today said the Buddhist philosophy of peace and compassion was very much relevant in the present strife-torn world.
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NewKerala, Jan 8, 2006
Patna, India -- Hundreds of Buddhist monks from India and abroad offered special prayers at Bodh Gaya, the birthplace of Buddhism, for world peace.
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Newindpress, January 6 2006
AMARAVATI, Andhra Pradesh (India) -- Buddhist spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Thursday asserted that the shape of Tibet in the political map of the world would much depend on the efforts of the people living there.
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Newindpress, January 6 2006
AMARAVATI, Andhra Pradesh (India) -- The Kalachakra Empowerment-2006 formally started on Thursday on the banks of the river Krishna here with the Dalai Lama offering the earth ritual prayers at the specially-built Kalachakra temple.
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Andhracafe, Jan 7, 2006
Amaravati, India -- The ongoing Kalachakra is a great opportunity for monks and devotees from Tibet to meet their long lost friends and relatives.
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WebIndia123, Jan 6, 2006
Guntur, India -- An ailing Tibetan Buddhist pilgrim, who came for the Kalachakra programme in Amaravathi town, Guntur district, passed away in Guntur General Hospital here today.
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NewKerala, Jan 6, 2006
Patna, India -- The 17th Karmapa, the spiritual head of the Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhists, will attend an eight-day prayer beginning Saturday in Bodh Gaya in Bihar, the birthplace of Buddhism.
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The Hindu, Jan 7, 2006
NEW DELHI, India -- Leh airport would be renamed Kushok Bakula Rimpoche airport in memory of the Buddhist spiritual leader and the Head Lama of Ladakh.
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By Ishak Mohammad, NewKerala, Jan 5, 2006
Amravati, Andhra Pradesh (India) -- Tibetan spiritual leader and Nobel laureate the Dalai Lama opened “Kalchakra” (wheel of time), the global conclave of Buddhist monks, in the Andhra Pradesh town of Amravati on Wednesday.
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Press Trust of India, January 5, 2006
Amaravathi, Andhra Pradesh -- Buddhist spiritual leader Dalai Lama set in motion the 12-day Kalachakra (Wheel of Time) ritual in this ancient Buddish town with call for promotion of world peace and tolerance.
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Newindpress, January 5 2006
AMARAVATI, Andhra Pradesh (India) -- Kalachakra is a Buddhist tantric tradition belonging to the ‘highest yogic tantra,’ the empowerment for, which was taken up to a large number of people in Tibet.
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Asian Age, January 4, 2006
Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh (India) -- The Kalachakra-2006, true to the concept of Ahimsa Paramodharmaha, as taught by Lord Buddha is going to be strictly vegetarian this time. For the first time in Kalachakra, only vegetarian food will be served to the Buddhist monks, tourists, in the restaurants set up by the organisers, Tibetans and local hotels.
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By Munza Mushtaq, Asian Tribune, Jan 5, 2006
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Amidst reports of a possible visit by the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the to Sri Lanka, the Foreign Ministry is yet to receive a request seeking approval for such a visit.
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WebIndia123, January 4, 2006
Amaravathi, Andhra Pradesh (India) -- The most important event that happened due to the ensuing Kalachakra confluence was the consecration of the giant monolithic statue of Lord Buddha in the Hussain Sagar Lake by the Buddhist spiritual leader Dalai Lama a couple of days ago.
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IANS, January 2, 2006
HYDERABAD, India -- Buddhist spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Monday reached Hyderabad amid tight security for a 15-day visit to Andhra Pradesh to attend ‘Kalachakra’, the global conclave of Buddhist monks.
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NewKerala, Jan 3, 2006
Guntur, Andhra Pradesh -- Buddhist pilgrims from Tibet are flocking the temple town of Amaravati on the banks of Krishna river in this district to take part in Kalachakra, a Buddhist programme to be held from January 5 to 17.
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IANS, December 31, 2005
Kathmandu, Nepal -- Once suppressed by the communist regime, Buddhism is again flourishing in Russia. And Moscow wants help from Nepal to embellish its bond with the religion.
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Andhracafe, Dec 31, 2005
Bavikonda, India -- For the first time in the State, holy Buddhist relics of Bavikonda, which date back to the 3rd century BC, will be enshrined in a holy relic gallery at the A.P.State Museum.
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By Terry Friel, Reuters, Dec 28, 2005
DHARAMSALA, India -- The Dalai Lama said on Wednesday the most senior Buddhist in Tibet had obviously wanted to please Chinese authorities by praising Tibet for its political stability and prosperity.
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Seattle Times, December 30, 2005
Kathmandu, Nepal -- The little prince is now at a monastery in Nepal, studying scripture about six hours a day and visiting holy sites such as Buddha's birthplace.
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The Times of India Online, December 30, 2005
GUWAHATI, Bhutan -- Bhutan's crown prince, who is set to become king in two years, has warned of an "uncertain future" if citizens shirked their responsibilities when the nation shifts from monarchy to a democracy.
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Newindpress.com, December 29, 2005
AMARAVATI, India -- These small villages look like a replica of Tibet. With hundreds of Budddhist monks in red robes on every street and corner of historic Amaravati and Dharanikota, the places are not just wearing a festive look but are charged with spiritualism.
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NewKerala, Dec 29, 2005
Guntur, India -- A Tibetan pilgrim, who came to Buddhist Kalachakra rituals at Amaravathi in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, drowned in the River Krishna today.
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by Chandrasekhar, Budsiness-Standard, December 27, 2005
Amaravathi, India -- The 13-day Kalachakra-2006 ceremony, beginning here on January 5, is all set to become a Tibetan tantrik Buddhist show and a great spiritual event as the sect leader, the Dalai Lama, is coming to take part in the ceremony.
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NewKerala (AP), Dec 27, 2005
Amaravati, India -- The stage is set for the congregation of Buddhist monks from around the world for the 'Kalachakra' coinciding with the 2,550 th anniversary of the day Lord Buddha left his earthly abode.
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by KRISHAN FRANCIS, Associated Press, December 25, 2005
PERALIYA, Sri Lanka -- Butchers hung up their knives, Buddhist monks got ready to chant hymns and survivors prepared to throng temples as Sri Lanka - on Sunday began to mark the one-year anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami. People from different parts of Sri Lanka - prepared to join President Mahinda Rajapakse in Peraliya on Monday to honor more than 31,000 fellow citizens who died in the tsunami, the second highest toll after Indonesia.
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New Kerala, Dec 28, 2005
Siddharthnagar, India -- A large number of Buddhist monks from India and abroad have been invited to the famous three-day 'Kapilvastu Mahotsava' commencing tomorrow.
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By JOSHUA KURLANTZICK, New York Times, December 25, 2005
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- AT the opening of a boutique hotel and yoga retreat named Talalla Retreat Center, near a long stretch of white beach, an international crowd of stylish guests sips red wine and snacks on canapés. As evening wears into early morning, conversation shifts effortlessly from comparisons of the latest restaurants in London and Sydney to mutual friends burned out working for big investment banks, to high-end yoga teachers who charge $600 a lesson. One man says he's just returned from his 57th trip to Bali.
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Phayul, December 24, 2005
Dharamshala, India -- In a gesture truly representing the philosophies of the Buddha himself the Palpung Muni Shasan Dharma Chakra Sangh (PMDCS) headed by the 12th Kenteng Tai Situpa Rinpoche provided relief materials to about a hundred families affected by the October 8 earthquake in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Times of India, Dec 23, 2005
HYDERABAD, India -- The Andhra Pradesh government is gearing up to host the world Buddhist conclave ‘Kalachakra’ 2006, to be held at Amravati on the banks of the Krishna river in Guntur district from January 5 next year.
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VNA, Dec 21, 2005
New Delhi, India -- A ceremony to inaugurate the Viet Nam Pagoda was held in Lumbini, Nepal, on December 17, or the 17th of the 11th month of 2549 on the Buddhist calendar.
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Newind Press, December 19 2005
VIJAYAWADA, India -- The police are on a high state of alert following the receipt of a message that there is a threat to the life of Buddhist spiritual leader Dalai Lama during his two week-long stay at Amaravati for the Kalachakra Empowerment Ceremony beginning on Jan 5.
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New Kerala, Dec 16, 2005
Amravati, Andhra Pradesh (India) -- Buddhists residing in the Andhra Pradesh town of Amravati have begun preparations for the ten-day-long Kalachakra (Wheel of Time) ceremony, which will be attended by the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in January next year.
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UNI, Dec 17, 2005
Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh (India) -- The Mabira Buddhist Temple in Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh was burnt to ashes in a devastating fire, official sources said here today.
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PTI, Dec 17, 2005
Shimla, India -- Himachal Pradesh has drawn up tourism projects worth Rs 970 million, which if cleared by the Centre, would help spruce up tourist sites like Chamba, Mandi, Bilaspur and other circuits, besides start a helicopter service and a toll-free helpline for holidaymakers.
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New Kerala, Dec 12, 2005
Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh (India) -- Hundreds of Buddhists from Korea gathered in Dharamsala for attending a five-day long teaching session by Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, that began here on Monday.
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by Smitha Rao, TIMES NEWS NETWORK, Dec 12, 2005
BANGALORE, India -- Buddha is on the rocks again: the Centre (Central Government of India) has upbraided Karnataka for its "diametrically opposite views" on the proposed statue of Buddha at Ramanagaram. Did ecological wisdom dawn on the state government by accident?
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Phayul, December 11, 2005
Dharamshala, India -- Information technology is fast spreading its influence across the world and equally fast is the increase in the number of admirers of the 70-year Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama. Admirers and followers of the Dalai Lama take as blessings even a smile of the Dalai Lama, or just a glimpse of the leader passing through a throng of followers who with their eyes closed and hands folded gesture as if to pray.
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Phayul, December 8, 2005
Dharamshala, India -- Tibetan nuns may soon receive doctorate in Buddhism and be called Geshema, a practice that was non-existent until now. His Holiness the Dalai Lama said that talks are going on with the Department of religion to start honoring Buddhist nuns with the highest academic achievement in Buddhist studies.
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By Ujjwal Khatiwada, NewsLine Nepal, Dec 8, 2005
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- The Lumbini Development Trust (LDT) has stated that the arrival of tourists in Lumbini has increased considerably this year.
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NewKerala, Dec 5, 2005
Kolkata, India -- MahaBodhi Society will start celebrating their year-long 2550th Buddha Jayanti from Wednesday onwards.
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Express Travel World, Dec 5, 2005
New Delhi, India -- What's common between his highness the Dalai Lama, an Air-India pilgrim package and champa flowers? Nothing really. But according to minister of state for tourism Renuka Chowdhury, the three can together help promote the Buddhist circuit and bring in those tourist dollars.
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Indo-Asian News Service, December 7, 2005
Patna, India -- Bihar plans to start an air taxi service package to enable tourists, particularly foreigners, to visit famous Buddhist sites in the state.
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The Telegraph, Dec 3, 2005
Kathmandu, Nepal -- Nepal's "Buddha boy" is under investigation by the authorities, who question his claim not to have eaten anything for six months and are examining his followers' finances.
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By Navin Singh Khadka, BBC News, Dec 2, 2005
Kathmandu, Nepal -- A meditating teenage boy in south-central Nepal is drawing the attention of scientists after attracting huge crowds in the past six months and earning himself the name Buddha-reincarnate.
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Dominican Today, Nov 28, 2005
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Authorities in Nepal urged religious groups and scientists on Sunday to help solve the mystery of a meditating teenaged boy who some believe is an incarnation of Buddha.
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Newindpress, November 29 2005
BHUBANESWAR, India -- It seems, Buddha would soon smile on Orissa tourism. Be it the much-hyped recent visit of the Thai princess to the State or the Nirvana Puspagiri festival hosted a couple of years ago or the forthcoming Buddha Mahotsav mooted by the Government, Buddhist tourism is set to take off in the State in a big way soon.
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By Binaj Gurubacharya, Associated Press, November 25, 2005
15-year-old in Nepal jungle draws crowds
KATMANDU, Nepal -- A teenage boy has been meditating in a Nepalese jungle for six months, and thousands have flocked to see him, with some believing he is the reincarnation of Buddha, according to police and media reports.
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Kuensel Online, November 23, 2005
Timphu, Bhutan -- The National Assembly of Bhutan resolved that the formal ngedzin (recognition) of trulkus and lamas born in Bhutan would be conducted according to Bhutanese traditions and the rules of procedure framed by the committee which was established this year in accordance with the resolution of the 83rd session of the National Assembly.
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ReliefWeb, Nov 20, 2005
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Community consultation has been one of the guiding principles for the reconstruction process after the devastation of last year’s tsunami.
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The Asian Age, Nov 22, 2005
Amaravati, Guntur (India) -- There is a buzz in the sleepy village of Amaravati in Guntur where the Buddhist summit Kalachakra is to be held in January.
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UPI, Nov 21, 2005
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- A 15-year-old boy in the Hindu kingdom of Nepal, who reportedly has been fasting for six months while meditating beneath a tree, is seen as the new Buddha.
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Newind Press, November 22 2005
BHUBANESWAR, India -- On her third and last day of stay in the State, Thai princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn visited the Ratnagiri Buddhist site in Jajpur district.
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ANI, November 21, 2005
Bhopal, India -- The 17th Karmapa Lama, Trinlay Thaye Doreje, the spiritual head of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, has said that Buddhism teaches peace, tolerance and harmony.
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Statesman News Service, Nov 14, 2005
MALDA, India -- Buddhist population in the state has not been enumerated properly and the fact and figures are not accurate. Even its total population is less than the actual figure recorded in the census reports, said an official of the State Minority Commission.
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Press Trust of India, NOV 9, 2005
Leh, Ladakh (India) -- Buddhist youths today forced closure of shops in Leh market protesting what they alleged the marriage of a Buddhist girl with a Muslim after her forcible conversion.
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Newind Press, November 10 2005
GUNTUR, India -- As the clock starts ticking away for the Buddhist magnum opus, Kala Chakra at Amaravathi early next year, the Roads and Building Department has started taking up road-laying works on a massive scale.
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The Rising Nepal, Nov 6, 2005
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- A Russian Buddhist delegation headed by the Russian Religious Ambassador Eldinev Ayush will pay a week-long visit to Nepal from tomorrow.
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Phayul, November 2, 2005
Dharamshala, India -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama today inaugurated the International Conference of Mahayana Buddhists in the Indian capital today. Organized by the New Delhi based Tibet House the conference was opened today at India International Centre.
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TibetNet, November 2, 2005
Dharamshala, India -- Dr. Rajendra Priyadarshi, a physicist and student of Nobel laureate, the late Prof. Heisenberg, gave an hour-long talk on the "Philosophy of Science and Buddhist Philosophy" last Monday at the Gangkyi mess hall.
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AFP, Oct 24, 2005
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- A top Sri Lankan Buddhist monk legislator admitted for the first time his all-monks party had been mistaken to enter politics, but stopped short of quitting the legislature where it has nine crucial seats.
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by Subodh Ghildiyal, The Times of India, Oct 21, 2005
NEW DELHI, India -- Dalits have steadily been converting to Buddhism in large numbers. As a result, the community has swelled from 0.2% in 1956 to 0.7% today. With Dalits from UP making up a good chunk of the October 14 throng at Nagpur this year, it would be interesting to watch the stance of country's largest Dalit outfit, BSP.
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Lanka Truth, October 19, 2005
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's opposition leader Ranil Wickramasinghe said that many problems can be resolved if we practice Buddhism.
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Statesman News Service, Oct 13, 2005
KALIMPONG, North Bengal (India) -- Controversy has always dogged the Shabdrung Rinpoches, once religious leaders of Bhutan, especially after the late ninth Shadrung Rinpoche Naung Gigme, a member of the Drukpa Kargyud sect of Buddhism, was sent into exile in India in the early 1960s. He was based in Manali and in 2000 came to head Sanchen Dorje Gompa at Pedong, one of the oldest monasteries in the region.
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Phayul, October 13, 2005
Dharamshala, India -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama donated fifteen lakh rupees in aid of quake victims in Pakistan and India, Voice of Tibet radio service reported.
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TYC, October 10, 2005
Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh (India) -- On the occasion of the GOLDEN JUBILEE YEAR of the formation of The Buddhist Society Of India, “ALL INDIA BUDDHIST CONFERENCE” was held on 8th and 9th October 2005 at Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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By Mallika Wanigasundara, The Buddhist Channel, Oct 7, 2005
Pottuvil, Sri Lanka -- He stood in the sands,a lonely figure, holding in his hands the offerings we had made to him. Alone and vulnerable he has dug himself into this hostile territory in a small ‘sanghavasa’ (abode of bhikkus) to protect and preserve an ancient temple on the beaches in Pottuvil in Eastern Sri Lanka. It is a one man battle against heavy odds.
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Associated Press, October 4, 2005
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Leftover British colonial laws regarding stray dogs and cats have become a campaign issue in the coming presidential election in Sri Lanka, whose majority Buddhists promote compassion toward all beings.
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Webindia123.com, September 28, 2005
Agra, India -- After the much-hyped 350th year celebrations of the Taj Mahal, that concluded here last evening, the Uttar Pradesh government is set to celebrate the 2550th birth anniversary of Lord Buddha next year.
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Phayul, October 4, 2005
Dharamshala, India -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama will take part in an international Buddhist conference in Nagpur, Maharashtra on 15 October, reports Voice of Tibet radio service. His Holiness the Dalai Lama will participate in a discussion session on October 15 at the conference which is expected to draw Buddhists representatives from Japan, Thailand and Sri Lanka etc.
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by Jayaweera Sugathapala, Lanka Daily News, October 5, 2005
Attanagalla, Sri Lanka -- On an initiative by the Chief Sangha Nayake Siyane Sivu Korale and Vihardipathi Attanagalla Raja Maha Viharaya, Ven. Dr. Pannila Ananda Thera and Sirisanghabo Social Service Foundation of Attanagalla in collaboration with the Abbess of Taiwan's Tayuan Buddhist Centre, Siek Chiu Chin have launched a program to build 335 houses for tsunami victims in Pereliya, Telwatta and Daluwatumulla areas in the Hikkaduwa Divisional Secretary's Division.
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New Kerala, Oct 3, 2005
Nagpur, India -- Over 12,000 followers of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar from across the country and abroad are expected to throng to Deeksha Bhoomi here, where Buddhism was embraced in 1956 by lakhs of Dalits along with the social reformer, to celebrate the 49th 'Dhammachakra Parivartan Din' on October 12 this year.
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Rediff and Buddhist Channel, September 26, 2005
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- As Venerable Wimala - a monk well known for his humanitarian and medical relief work in Africa - waded through a Sri Lankan village destroyed by the deadly December 26 tsunami, he couldn't help noticing that many parts of the area were still without proper shelters and sanitation.
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ANI, September 22, 2005
Dharamshala, India -- By using modern technologies many scholars are making knowledge of Buddhism available for the general public and youngsters. Many Buddhist scholars in Dharamshala town are digitalizing rare Buddhist manuscripts to preserve them and give them a virtual home on the Internet.
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By Rajeev Dangol, PeaceJournalism.com, Issue 11, Sept 2005
Kathmandu, Nepal -- Just 11 km from Katmandu city, Shantiban is easily visible from across the road with huge golden statue of Buddha in meditation posture. It only takes 20 minutes village walk to reach the spot. Perched on a hill, the 25 feet tall Buddha's image is the main attraction of the place.
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Business Standard, September 22, 2005
Kolkata, India -- West Bengal government has appointed consultants to conduct a feasibility study on making Tamluk and Tamralipta, in the east Midnapore district, a gateway to the Buddhism tourism circuit.
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by Upali Rupasinghe, Lanka Daily News, September 21, 2005
New Delhi, India -- "The contribution made by late Anagarika Dharmapala for the revival of Buddhism in India and for fostering and propagating it in Sri Lanka, Asia and in the West are enormous and his noble services for the benefit of mankind will be remembered by generations to come," said Sri Lanka's Deputy High Commissioner in Chennai Sumith Nakandala, addressing the 141st birth anniversary commemorative meeting of late Anagarika Dharmapala in Kolkata.
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By ARAVIND ADIGA, Time Magazine, Sep. 18, 2005
Tourists are returning to the birthplace of one of the world's great religions
BODH GAYA, India -- It appears on your right as you go around the temple, and you wonder at once if that is the tree: an ancient-looking, sprawling tree with a massive trunk and a zone of deep, hypnotizing shade at its center. A middle-aged Japanese man dressed in white, wearing a mask, is meditating in its shadow. Behind him two Tibetan monks are counting off their prayer beads and whispering.
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by Upali Rupasinghe, Lanka Daily News, Sept 19, 2005
New Delhi, India -- A global training centre for Buddhist monks across the world will be established at Buddha Gaya. The foundation stone for the building complex is to be laid by the Dalai Lama in presence of leading Buddhist monks from different countries belonging to all schools of Buddhism.
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by Rabindra Nath Choudhury, The Asian Age India, Sept 14, 2005
Bhubaneswar, India -- There seems to be no end to the controversy over the birthplace of Lord Buddha. The latest claim that the apostle of peace was born in Orissa has been challenged by historian Karuna Sagar Behera.
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Press Trust of India, September 10, 2005
Kolkata, India -- Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama would lay the foundation stone of a global training centre for monks during a three-day celebration at Bodhgaya in February next year marking the 2550th Buddha Jayanti celebrations to be attended by Buddhist spiritual leaders from across the world.
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Nepal News, Sept 11, 2005
Kathmandu, Nepal -- The 4th International Conference on Buddhist Heritage of Nepal Mandala 2005 concluded in Kathmandu on Saturday.
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TibetNet, September 7, 2005
Dharamshala, India -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama is expected to leave Ladakh for New Delhi tomorrow, from where he will proceed on about a 20-day visit to the United States.
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Xinhua News, Sept 8, 2005
Kathmandu, Nepal -- The 4th International Conference on Buddhist Heritage of Nepal Mandal 2005 kicked off Wednesday with the slogan of "Collaboration for the Preservation, Upliftment and Co-existence of Buddhist Heritage in Asia."
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Xinhuanet, Sept 3, 2005
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- The Fourth International Conference on the Buddhist Heritage of Nepal Mandala 2005 will be held here from Sept. 6 to 10, the organizers said Saturday.
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PTI, SEPTEMBER 3, 2005
KOLKATA, India -- The West Bengal government is keen to make Tamluk in Midnapore East district a place of Buddhist attraction to lure more tourists.
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PTI, Sept 3. 2005
PATNA, India -- In a bid to attract foreign and domestic tourists, the Bihar State Tourism Development Corporation (BSTDC) has proposed introduction of an air taxi service to important Buddhist shrines in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
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ANI, August 28, 2005
Dharamshala, India -- Queen of the hills, Dharamshala, is thronged with thousands of foreigners coming from different countries to study Tibetan Buddhism.
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Newindpress.com, August 29 2005
BHUBANESHWAR, India -- For the 1.2 lakh Buddhist population of the State, the 15-month-old Orissa Buddhist Front (OBF) has offered a ray of hope to revive the lost glory of a religion that had tremendous influence on the region for several centuries.
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BY POST B. BASNET, Kantipur Online, Aug 26, 2005
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- It may be a new thing to many that Nepal is evolving as one of the sought-after venues for higher level Buddhist studies. Dozens of institutes for Buddhist studies have emerged in Kathmandu alone to meet the demands of huge numbers of Westerners, flocking every year, seeking knowledge of Buddhism in Nepal.
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New Kerala, Aug 24, 2005
Patna, India -- Angry Buddhist monks have threatened to expose the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) motive behind its claim over a temple in Bihar's Bodh Gaya, saying that they would not allow another Ayodhya-like incident to recur.
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by FARHANA KALAM, The Telegraph, Aug 19, 2005
Gaya, India -- The district administration today foiled an attempt by a group of BJP leaders and activists to enter Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya and offer jal to a disputed shivalinga on the last day of Shravan.
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Indo-Asian News Service, August 14, 2005
New Delhi, India -- A Buddhist tourist circuit, partly funded by Japan, is being mapped across 16 Indian states to tap the growing interest among overseas travellers to visit places of religious and historical importance to Buddhism.
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Newind Press, Aug 3, 2005
BHUBANESWAR, India -- In an attempt to promote Orissa as an attractive destination for Buddhist pilgrims and tourists from the South-East Asian countries, Orissa Tourism has drawn up an ambitious action plan. It includes an annual Buddha Mahotsav slated to be hosted at the historic Dhauli hills and the Buddhist circuit of Ratnagiri-Lalitgiri-Udaygiri during December this year.
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IANS, August 2 2005
PATNA, India -- Buddhist monks have threatened to launch fresh protests to make the central government hand over the management of the 1,500-year-old Mahabodhi Temple in Bihar's Bodh Gaya town to them.
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By Ugyen Penjore, Kuensel Online, Aug 2, 2005
Timphu, Bhutan -- Farmer Rinchen has a brand new painting of the Four Harmonious Friends or Thuenpa Puen Zhi on the wall of her altar room. Hotelier Nima has a huge painting of the same on his restaurant wall. A beautifully done Thangka (scroll painting) of the Four Friends hangs from the sitting room of Karma, a Thimphu businesswomen.
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Newindpress, July 31 2005
KENDRAPARA, India -- For an archaeological hotspot, Langudi wears the tag of obscurity. Located in Dharmasala tehsil, 40 km from here, it is a sleepy hamlet with sparse population. But things are set to change, thanks to the discovery of a Buddhist stupa along with several different images of Lord Buddha.
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Xinhuanet, July 25, 2005
KABUL, Afghanistan -- "All other families lived in caves have moved to houses at the mountain foot except us who still live here because there are not enough houses for us," the 70-year old Hamid Hussein said.
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The Rising Nepal, July 26, 2005
BUTWAL, Nepal -- The supreme court has issued an interim order to the Lumbini Development Trust not to charge the entrance fee at the entrance of the Mayadevi Temple as well as the fee that is charged for offering worship at the temple.
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Lanka Daily News, July 27, 2005
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The sacrifices made by the Maha Sangha for the preservation of Buddhism in Sri Lanka, resulted in establishing a disciplined society. The same can be said of the whole world, if the Maha Sangha takes the necessary interest and enthusiasm.
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Kantipur Online, July 22, 2005
Kathmandu, Nepal -- Swami Vivekananda once said that Buddhism could not survive in the very land where it was born, that is, India. However, it is alive in Nepal where Siddhartha Gautam, the founder of Buddhism, was born some 25 centuries ago.
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The Rising Nepal, July 21, 2005
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Minister for Information and Communications, Tanka Dhakal put cancellation marks on a postage stamp series on Lord Buddha issued by Nepal Philatelic Bureau from today on the occasion of Gurpurnima.
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The Rising Nepal, July 21, 2005
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Assistant Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Yangkila Sherpa, inaugurated ?Bauddha Book Exhibition? organised to celebrate Dharma Chakra Prabardhan Diwas, the first day of preaching by Lord Buddha, and Guru Purnima, here today.
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The Rising Nepal, July 21, 2005
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Four new gilded pinnacles (gajur) were installed today on the ridge of the Aagam Chhen shrine under the Itumbaha Monastery, marking the completion of the restoration of its south and west wings.
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Phayul, July 19, 2005
Dharamshala, India -- In its latest and most serious ever attempt to interfere in Tibet's traditional system of recognising lamas, China has gone to the extent of saying that Beijing will choose the next Dalai Lama. Tibet Autonomous Region chairman Qiangba Puncog was quoted by Asianews/SCMP as saying that "if the spiritual leader, who turned 70 on July 6, dies in exile, Beijing would follow Tibetan Buddhist precedent to choose his reincarnation."
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Express News Service, July 18, 2005
Kolkata, India -- As part of the ministry of culture?s drive to create awareness among people and simultaneously preserve the cultural heritage of India, the ?National Seminar on Buddhist Literary Heritage in India: Text and Context? kicked off today at the Asiatic Society museum.
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TibetNet, July 19, 2005
Dharamshala, India -- Kalon Tripa Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche on Tuesday, 21 July, will set off on a week-long visit to Leh, Ladakh. Enroute to Ladakh, Kalon Tripa is expected to meet various people in Delhi on 22 July.
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ColomboPage News Desk, July 15, 2005
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Sri Lanka Treasury is allocating Rs. 125 million to the Buddha Sasana Ministry to rehabilitate and reconstruct Buddhist temples and places of worship that were damaged by the December 26 tsunami catastrophe.
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By Bibhuti Mishra, Sify News, July 5, 2005
Bhubaneswar, India -- Utkal University of Culture (UUC), set up in 2000 as the first culture university in the country, has mooted post graduate programmes in Buddhism and Jainology from the current academic session.
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ANI, July 12, 2005
Dharamshala, India -- Nearly 600 Taiwanese Buddhists began to attend special religious sermons by Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, here today. The Tibetan government-in-exile is headquartered in Dharamsala.
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Asia News, July 5, 2005
The Minister for Buddhist Affairs pledges that funds won?t come from foreign sources and that volunteers from other religions will be kept away.
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By Imran Khan, New kerala, July 6, 2005
Patna, India -- Scientists have saved a tree in Bihar's Bodh Gaya town - where the Buddha attained enlightenment 2,500 years ago - from infection, disease and pollution.
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By Sugita Katyal, Reuters, July 6, 2005
NEW DELHI, India -- At one level, he's just a simple Buddhist monk who's devoted his life to prayer and meditation.
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PTI, July 2, 2005
Islamabad, Pakistan -- A Buddhist site near the north western Pakistani town of Mardan was ransacked by unidentified people, who took away a number of relics, including statues and iron tools.
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Newind Press, July 1 2005
RAJAHMUNDRY, India -- India is a country which often fails to respect its historical heritage. Take the case of the various centuries-old Buddhist sites in East Godavari district, rich in tourism potential, which are in a state of dismal neglect.
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IANS, June 30, 2005
Raipur, India -- A stone statue of a 6th century Buddhist female monk, stolen from a Chhattisgarh Buddhist centre last week, has been recovered from a village where people were worshipping it in the belief that it was an idol of goddess Parvati.
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By Senaka Weeraratna, The Buddhist Channel (Abridged version), June 28, 2005
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Portuguese landed in Colombo in 1505. Within a few years of their arrival they were able to establish permanent trading settlements and then indulge in a game of intrigue and blackmail with the various rulers and minor chiefs of the country.
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by Vir Sanghvi, Hindustan Times, June 20, 2005
New Delhi, India -- Will there ever be another Dalai Lama? Traditionally, the spiritual leadership of the Tibetan people passes from one Dalai Lama to his reincarnation. But the current Dalai Lama has raised questions about whether the institution should continue. He may, he says, be the last Dalai Lama.
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ColomboPage News Desk, June 20, 2005
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Buddhist monks and laymen from several countries arrived this morning at the Bandaranaike International Airport to participate in religious ceremonies connected with the Poson Poya.
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by VRINDA GOPINATH, The Indian Express, June 18, 2005
The Great Sanchi Stupa gets less than 80,000 visitors a year. Little information, no souvenirs and few places to spend the night make the experience shortlived
SANCHI, India -- It is perhaps the world?s best kept secret. Such a secret, that the Great Sanchi Stupa, dating back to the third century BC, gets less than 80,000 visitors a year. An overwhelming number, 64,000 of them, are Indian. Most of the 14,000 foreigners are Sri Lankan Buddhist monks.
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Democratic Voice of Burma, June 18, 2005
Dharmsala, India -- Exiled Tibet spiritual leader His Highness Dalai Lama told DVB, on 15 June, that He is always praying for Burma's democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and He prays that she would be released soon.
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By Catherine Philp, The Times (UK), June 18, 2005
Many thousands are still forced to live in temporary camps in Sri Lanksa thanks to official incompetence and bureaucracy
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- SARINA crouches in her tent in the devastated fishing town of Hambantota, sorting through the few children?s clothes that survived the tsunami. Outside the rain begins to fall and with a sigh she pulls down the flaps to stop the water leaking inside.
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Lanka Daily News, June 18, 2005
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- PRESIDENT Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga received a warm response from over a thousand Buddhists monks, as she spelled out contents of the proposed Post Tsunami Operational Management Structure (P-TOMS) at the Maha Sangha convention at the BMICH last night.
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by L. B. Wijayasiri, Lanka Daily News, June 15, 2005
Kandy, Sri Lanka -- Head of the Sri Abhayaraja Pirivena, Urapola Pilimatalawa Ven. Pandith Moragolle Jinaratana Nayake Thera said right thinking Maha Sangha vehemently condemn the undesirable, undisciplined, aggressive and violent behaviour of some recently in Kandy town forcing shop owners to close business establishments thereby disrupting the peaceful life of people and trying to frighten the Government with the objective of creating an anarchic situation.
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by Bharatha Malawaraarachchi and Ramyathilake Thalpita, Lanka Daily News, June 16, 2005
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Ven. Dambara Amila thera who was on a death fast was admitted to the Colombo National Hospital(CNH) by a group of Buddhist monks ending a five day death fast. However chaos and confusion was soon to follow when the very monks at the scene staged a protest demanding his return to continue his fast.
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PTI, June 13, 2005
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lankan police today used batons and teargas to break a protest here by Buddhist monks opposing President Chandrika Kumaratunga's proposal to enter into a tsunami aid-sharing deal with Tamil Tiger rebels.
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By Sugeeswara Senadhira -Bureau Chief, Asian Tribune, June 14, 2005
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The President of the Jathika Bikshu Peramuna (JBP), Venerable Dambara Amila Thero vowed to continue his hunger strike protesting the proposed joint mechanism with the Tamil rebels although Ven Dr Omalpe Sobitha had gave up his fast after president Chandrika Kumaratunga agreed to discuss the issue with Buddhist prelates.
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by V.S. Sambandan, The Hindu, June 12, 2005
Move follows Chandrika's assurance
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- A senior Buddhist monk MP from the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU), Omalpe Sobitha Thero, called off a five-day protest fast on Saturday, after an assurance by clergy leaders that President Chandrika Kumaratunga would not take a decision on the proposed joint mechanism without consultations.
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AFP, June 10, 2005
LEH, Ladakh (India) -- Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made a rare visit on Friday to Buddhist-dominated Ladakh region of occupied Kashmir, the first leg of a trip to visit frontline troops on Siachen.
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by Ven.Dr. Omalpe Sobitha Thero, The Buddhist Channel, 10 June, 2005
This is a statement by Ven.Dr. Omalpe Sobitha Thero, the monk who has initiated a fast to death since June 6 2005, explaining his action and what he attempts to achieve. The action taken by Ven.Sobitha Thera was initiated in response to the President of Sri Lanka declaring that she will make an "illegal" pact with the separatist LTTE, amidst wide spread opposition to it.
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AASHA KHOSA, Indian Express, June 9, 2005
NEW DELHI, India -- Buddhist leaders, including Tenzin Ngodupa, a representative of exiled Tibetan leader Dalai Lama, today rejected government?s claim that India has only 80 lakh Buddhists and said these figures, projected in the recently-released Census of Religions were ??grossly understated.??
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Xinhuanet, June 8, 2005
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Seven more Buddhist Monks have joined fasting unto death against Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga's move to enter a joint deal with the Tamil Tigers on post-tsunami reconstruction.
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Sunday Leader, June 5, 2005
Galle, Sri Lanka -- Five months post tsunami. Gone are the hundreds of khaki-clad US Marines, the Pakistani medical camps and the Indian hospital ship glistening in the Galle harbour. Slowly, Galle is recovering and picking its battered, bruised self up.
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The Buddhist Times, June 7, 2005
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The first ever ?modern? Buddhist school in Sri Lanka, Piyaratana Maha Vidyalaya in Dodanduwa in the Southern Province which challenged the missionaries under the British rule is to go to the new missionaries under a Buddhist Executive President and a Buddhist Prime Minister. Several months ago, this school was declared a cultural heritage by the Ministry of Culture.
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The NewsAhead Agency, June 7, 2005
DHARAMSALA, INDIA -- July 6, 2005. The 70th birthday of the peripatetic 14th Dalai Lama, celebrated surreptitiously in Tibet and openly at his home-in-exile in India, promises to be a useful focus for both sides of the "Free Tibet" movement.
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by Cyril Wimalasurendre, The Island, June 8, 2005
KANDY, Sri Lanka -- Ven. Dr. Omalpe Sobitha, who launched fast-unto-death in front of Sri Dalada Maligawa yesterday (07), rejected a ?Sangagnawa? (command) issued by the Most Venerable Mahanayake of the Amarapura Maha Nikaya, Weligama Sri Guanaratna Thero, to give up his (Ven. Sobitha Thero's) fast-undo-death and limit the fast to a day or two.
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by Janaka Perera, Asian Tribune, June 6, 2005
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Joint Committee of Buddhist Organizations, Sri Lanka, has accused United Nation?s Special Rapporteur Asma Jehangir of falsifying and distorting facts in a press release on the issue of unethical conversions in the island.
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Times Online, June 3, 2005
Mahabalipuram, India -- The little Buddhist sage sits underneath the tree only yards from the sea from which he was plucked, a whimsical smile upon his face. Villagers gather before him with offerings of incense and food.
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Times Online, June 3, 2005
Mahabalipuram, India -- The little Buddhist sage sits underneath the tree only yards from the sea from which he was plucked, a whimsical smile upon his face. Villagers gather before him with offerings of incense and food.
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Newindpress, June 1 2005
BHUBANESWAR, India -- With the focus shifting to non-traditional tourism in the State, the stakeholders are exploring prospects of Buddhist tourism circuits.
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Newindpress, June 1 2005
BHUBANESWAR, India -- With the focus shifting to non-traditional tourism in the State, the stakeholders are exploring prospects of Buddhist tourism circuits.
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Xinhua, May 31, 2005
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's all Buddhist monk party is to field its own candidate in the country's next presidential election, making it the second party to express presidential candidate.
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The Rising Nepal, May 24, 2005
LUMBINI, Nepal -- Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation and Chairman of the Lumbini Development Trust Buddhi Raj Bajracharya has conceded the Lumbini Master Plan designed for the integrated development of Lumbini area has been unable to catch up momentum.
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By Rinzin Wangchuk, Kuensel Online, May 25, 2005
Timphu, Bhutan -- Thousands of devotees received blessings from the Neten Chudrug (16 Arhats, disciples of Lord Buddha) Thongdroel at a sacred ceremony conducted by His Holiness the Je Khenpo to celebrate Duechhen Ngazom (Lord Buddha?s Maha-parinirvana) on May 23.
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By Rinzin Wangchuk, Kuensel Online, May 25, 2005
Timphu, Bhutan -- The Kudung of the 69th Je Khenpo, His Holiness Geshey Geduen Rinchen, was installed in the Kudung Chorten which will now be kept as the Machhen (inner sanctum) of the Rangjung Lhakhang in the Utse of Tashichhodzong.
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by Dinesh C. Sharma, Bangkok Post, May 23, 2005
The poaching of tigers from supposedly protected areas in India has got so bad that the Dalai Lama has thrown his weight behind a campaign aimed at changing attitudes among Tibetan expats in that country and in Nepal
New Delhi, India -- Tigers in India are today found more in newspaper pages than in jungles. It is known that the population in wildlife parks and reserves is shrinking but few could have imagined that the situation was so grim that not a single tiger would be sighted even in showpiece tiger reserves such as Sariska.
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Lanka Daily News, May 20, 2005
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- August 26, 2001 marked another milestone in Dhammadutta work in the South East Asian region. For the first time in modern history, Sri Lankan monks on Dhammadutta mission outside Sri Lanka have deemed it fit to organise themselves under one sangha umbrella group to work together for the betterment of the society with the guidance of the Buddha Sasana.
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AP, May 20, 2005
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Shops opened and buses plied their routes in Sri Lanka's volatile east Friday after three days of protests and explosions that killed at least one person.
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by SHIMALI SENANAYAKE, Associated Press, May 17, 2005
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- A monk drank poison and later died after becoming the first Buddhist clergyman to be convicted of the sexual abuse of a child in Sri Lanka, court officials and police said.
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By Shimali Senanayake, Associated Press Writer, May 16, 2005
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- A monk drank poison and was rushed to a hospital Monday moments after becoming the first Buddhist clergyman to be convicted of the sexual abuse of a child in Sri Lanka, court officials and police said.
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AP, May 16, 2005
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- A senior Buddhist monk has been arrested on charges of sexually abusing a teenager in a Sri Lankan temple, officials said Monday.
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Tribune News Service, May 12, 2005
Kulu, India -- The Dalai Lama inaugurated the Dhagpo Shedrup Ling Monastery constructed at a cost of Rs 7.5 crore at Kais village near here today. Virbhadra Singh, Chief Minister, Himachal Pradesh, also joined him in the ceremony.
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Newindpress, May 11 2005
BHUBANESWAR, India -- The State Government has decided to seek financial assistance from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) to develop three ancient Buddhist centres, Lalitgiri, Udaygiri and Ratnagiri.
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SinhalaNet, 7 May, 2005
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Parliament yesterday agreed to refer the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) "Bill to ban forced conversions to other religions" to a Parliament Standing Committee for consideration.
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IANS, MAY 05, 2005
PATNA, India -- Inspired by its success in Kerala, Bihar wants to tempt tourists with a special ayurveda therapy at its Buddhist pilgrimage centres of Rajgir and Bodh Gaya.
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by Janaka Perera, Asiantribune.com, May 3, 2005
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Representatives of Buddhist organizations are scheduled to meet visiting UN Special Rapporteur on Religious Freedom Asma Jahangir today (May 3) in the wake of mounting Christian evangelist pressure against the proposed Freedom of Religion Bill that is aimed at preventing unethical conversions.
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by Yishey D, Statesman, April 30, 2005
In his Sikkim sermons the 14th Dalai Lama stressed on inner development, compassion and universal responsibility.
Gangtok, Sikkim (India) -- This was the Dalai Lama?s fourth visit to Bayul Demoshong (old name for Sikkim), a place of great spiritually significance to Tibetan Buddhism. Bayul Demoshong or the hidden fruitful valley, was recognised by Guru Padmasambhava, the fountainhead of Tantrayana Buddhism as one of the sacrosanct hidden Buddhist zones. Something the incarnation of Chenrezik (Avalokiteswara) or the Lord of Compassion, the fourteenth Dalai Lama is well aware of.
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By Arun Ranjit, The Rising Nepal, May 1, 2005
Kathmandu, Nepal -- Nepal is the birthplace of Buddha, the Light of Asia and the Propagator of Peace. Buddha was born as Prince Siddhartha in 623 BC in Lumbini of southern Nepal on full moon day. And it was on this same full moon day that he attained enlightenment in Bodhgaya and passed away into nirvana at Kusinagar of India.
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by Don Asoka Wijewardena, Sunday Observer, May 1, 2005
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd (ANCL) will celebrate this year's Vesak Festival in a grand scale with the participation of both public and private sector organisations. In addition to this, around 500 to 600 three-wheelers will be decorated with flags carrying amadahara emblem.
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Statesman, April 28, 2005
GANGTOK, Sikkim (India) -- The Dalai Lama, in his last leg of Sikkim tour, today visited a number of monasteries in Gangtok and around. Today, he formally inaugurated a monastery in the Chandmari area of Gangtok amidst a sea of devotees gathered to seek his blessings. Yesterday, the Dalai Lama had visited Ranka monastery and the Sichey Tamang monastery. The Dalai Lama made it a point to visit all the monasteries despite of them belonging to different sects.
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Statesman, April 28, 2005
SILIGURI, India -- The security surrounding the Dalai Lama remained tight during his brief stopover at Salugara on his way to Delhi from Sikkim.
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The Rising Nepal, April 24, 2005
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Buddhiraj Bajracharya, who is on a visit to China discussed bilateral relations and the Chinese Modern Aircraft Industry with Chinese Minister for Science, Technology and Defence Zhang Yun Chuan, yesterday.
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By S.N. Saxena, Hinduworld.com, April 21, 2005
Guwahati, India -- At last experts and scholars have realised that Buddhism in India?s north-east is fast losing its original status with alien influences threatening this several-millennium-old faith, which is followed by a number of tribes of the region. This is the consensus arrived at a recent seminar of scholars and monks in Guwahati.
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TibetNet, April 20, 2005
Dharamshala, India -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama yesterday met with the abbot of Nishi Ongangji, one of the most important Buddhist temples in Japan. It is said that there are about 10000 temples under Nishi Ongangji. The abbot is one of the most important Buddhist leaders of Japan and also the present chief of Japanese association of Buddhists.
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By Jan McGirk, The Independent, 17 April 2005
A little bronze-eyed idol to the west of Kathmandu is causing quite a stir.
Tamil Nadu, India -- It's a Buddhist sage, and in mid-December the 5in figure was, like so many in rural Burma, placed in a little decorated kiosk, strapped to a crude bamboo raft and released on to the Irrawaddy river to drift to propitious sites and cast away evil. Down the delta it floated and then, a week or so later, the Boxing Day tsunami struck.
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ANI, April 15, 2005
New Delhi, India -- Indian Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat lead the nation in paying homage to Baba Saheb, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar on his 114th Birth Anniversary here today.
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TIMES NEWS NETWORK, APRIL 14, 2005
AHMEDABAD, India -- Chief Minister Narendra Modi has said that Babasaheb Ambedkar, by embracing Buddhism, set an example of protecting the social fabric and integrity and unity of India.
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ColomboPage News Desk, April 12, 2005
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The main opposition United National Party (UNP) yesterday condemned the Sri Lankan government's action to interdict the principals of three Buddhist schools.
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By Bibhuti Mishra, Sify, 13 April, 2005
Bhubaneswar, India -- The Orissa High Court has issued notices to the Central and state governments, based on a public interest petition, on the wanton quarrying by private parties at Lalitagiri, a protected Buddhist site of great historical significance.
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TIMES NEWS NETWORK, APRIL 11, 2005
NEW DELHI, India -- Almost two centuries ago, two Indian Buddhist monks walked up to China to change its history forever. In their quest for a new history, a surging India and a resurgent China will ink a new deal tomorrow which will give faith its due as the dealmaker between the two neighbours.
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by R C Rajamani, the Asian Tribune, April 11, 2005
New Delhi, India -- In a splendid show of Asian solidarity in the areas of economic and cultural cooperation, Japan has extended India a loan of Yen 1344.66 million that will, among other things, finance a project to give a facelift to neglected and poorly maintained world-famous Buddhist Centres in Uttar Pradesh (North India).
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ColomboPage News Desk, April 7, 2005
The Buddha Sasana Ministry is also considering honouring Dhamma teachers with Justice of the Peace posts and providing them with foreign trips.
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Sri Lankan government has taken steps to assist Buddhist religious education in the country, as it attributes the escalation of violence to the lack of religious education.
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Situ Dharmakara Foundation, April 8, 2005
New Delhi, India -- Yesterday the envoy of Palpung Sherabling and 12th Tai Situ Rinpoche, Lama Tenam presented the condolence letter to the Secretariat of the State of Vatican City to express sincerely the condolence for the loss of His Holiness, Pope John Paull II.
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Care for the Wild International, 6 Apr 2005
Dharmsala, India -- Wildlife and nature conservation was the core concern today, when His Holiness the Dalai Lama addressed his people at the formal launch of an awareness campaign.
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The Telegraph, April 6, 2005
New Delhi, India -- Three wildlife agencies have come together to spread awareness among communities inhabiting the Himalayan region, including Arunachal Pradesh, on conservation of flora and fauna with the aid of Buddhism.
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UNI, April 6, 2005
New Delhi, India -- The Dalai Lama today admitted that the Tibet autonomy issue is complex, but emphasised on the need to find a solution that is just and satisfactory to the people of the region and its neighbouring countries.
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The Rising Nepal, April 3, 2005
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- A directive to mainstream the Gumba (Monastery) and Madarsa (Mosque) education into formal school system designed up to SLC (School Leaving Certificate) is waiting for a nod from the cabinet.
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Daily Times, April 6, 2005
DHARAMSALA, India -- Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama begins an 11-day trip to Japan on Friday, his office announced.
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PTI, April 1, 2005
New Delhi, India -- Concerned that Buddhists do not have control over one of their most important temples, the National Commission for Minorities has asked the Centre and Bihar Government to ensure that management of the famous Bodh Gaya temple is vested exclusively with followers of the religion.
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Phayul, April 3, 2005
DHARAMSALA, India -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama offered special prayers for His Holiness Pope John Paul II yesterday during the last leg of his three-week teachings. After the passing away of His Holiness Pope John Paul II, His Holiness the Dalai Lama issued this condolence message.
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IANS, MARCH 29, 2005
KOLKATA, India -- International seminars, spiritual discourses and religious festivities will be part of a yearlong celebration planned in the city to mark the 2,550th birth anniversary of the Buddha next year.
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Press Trust of India, March 27, 2005
Dharamsala, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will hold the Kalachakra initiation ceremony at Amravati in Andhra Pradesh in January next year, highly placed sources in the Tibetan government-in-exile said.
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Dhamsara News, March 28, 2005
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Missionary activities are not merely religious in nature but are also politically motivated activities aimed at harming social peace among Sri Lankans, says C. Liyanage Aydin, the state minister responsible for religious affairs
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Daily Times (Pakistan), March 28, 2005
PERALIYA, Sri Lanka -- Hundreds of mourners prayed until dawn on Sunday beside an unmarked mass grave in southern Sri Lanka, chanting Buddhist mantras to honour the dead three months after they were swept away by a killer tsunami.
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by Janaka Perera, Asian Tribune, March 23, 2005
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- A new Buddhist International Relief Organization will come into effect, early next year, Dr. Hema Goonatilake, Coordinator, Buddhist Resource Centre, Sri Lanka, told the Asian Tribune on Tuesday. She said that a committee comprising of Sri Lankan and international representatives has been appointed to draft within three months a constitution for the new organization.
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by Janaka Perera, The Buddhist Channel, March 22, 2005
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Buddha Sasana Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake on March 19 blasted bible-toting bogus charities that were exploiting the tsunami disaster.He was addressing the two-day Global Buddhist Conference on ?Buddhist Humanitarian Services in a Post-Tsunami Context? that commenced at the BMICH, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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ColomboPage News Desk, March 19, 2005
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Borelasgamuwa Pillawa Buddhist temple came under grenade attack early today. A young Samanara with injuries, though not critical, has been admitted to the Colombo South Teaching Hospital, police sources said.
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PressTrust of India, March 20, 2005
New Delhi, India -- A tired old woman in tatters with hands folded and head bowed in prayer with a placard ?China quit Tibet? and a child waiting with flowers in its hands for the Buddha - images that reflect the perseverance and resilience of an exiled community.
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The Rising Nepal, March 15, 2005
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Twenty Buddhist women leaders including Stela Tamang from Nepal have been awarded with the ?Outstanding Women in Buddhism Award? on the occasion of the 95th ?United Nations International Women?s Day? on March 7 at a programme in Bangkok for their contribution to world peace.
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Statesman, March 17, 2005
GANGTOK, Sikkim (India) -- The Dalai Lama will visit Sikkim on 20 April this year. The Dalai Lama will visit the state for a week-long period.
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ColomboPage News Desk, March 16, 2005
The Police have provided protection for the monks to conduct their fasting.
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Ten laymen joined the six fasting Buddhist monks demanding the government to involve the state officials in supervising the distribution of tsunami relief and to distribute tents in an orderly manner.
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ANI, March 13, 2005
Gangtok, Sikkim (India) -- Sikkim's predominant Buddhist community held an auspicious ceremony prayer for world peace in a newly build monastery in Gangtok over the weekend.
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ColomboPage News Desk, March 14, 2005
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The two-day Global Buddhist Conference on ?Buddhist Humanitarian Services in a Post-tsunami Context' organized by the Asian Buddhist Congress and the Buddhist Resources Centre, Sri Lanka will be held at the BMICH on March 19 and 20.
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ANI, March 13, 2005
Siliguri, India -- The Tibetan Women's Association (TWA) of North Eastern India flagged off a peace march at the Sed. Guyed Institute of Buddhist Studies at Salugasea, near Siliguri recently on the 46th anniversary of the Tibetan National Women's Day.
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AFP, March 10, 2005
DHARAMSALA, India -- Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has renewed his commitment not to seek the independence of Tibet from China provided he be left in charge of Tibetan affairs.
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ANI, March 09, 2005
Dharamsala, India -- A huge number of disciples of Dalai Lama gathered in Dharamsala on the concluding day of the fortnight long annual preaching session of the Tibetan spiritual leader on Wednesday.
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PTI, MARCH 07, 2005
BANGALORE, India -- The 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, who came from Tibet on exile to India more than five years ago, on Monday said that he wants to remain in India, the birthplace of Buddhism.
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by Jai Arjun Singh, Business Standard, March 5, 2005
New Delhi , India -- Lower Chauntra in district Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, located 6 km from the Tibetan colony in the small hill town of Bir, isn?t the most obvious location for an enormous educational institute.
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ColomboPage News Desk, March 7, 2005
Translation project was a three-year effort undertaken by a panel of 300 scholars.
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- At a special ceremony held at the BMICH in Colombo this evening, Princess of Thailand Kalyani Wadara handed over an English translation of the first volume of the Thripitakaya to Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga.
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Indo-Asian News Service , March 3, 2005
Guwahati, India -- Buddhism in India's northeast is fast losing its originality with cultural fusion threatening this centuries-old faith, experts Thursday said.
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By Tashi Tsering, The Times of Tibet, March 3, 2005
Dharamsala, India -- As the profound teaching of His Holiness the Dalai Lama commenced on the full moon day in positive vibration so, followed the mission of the "Tibetan Volunteers for animals" headed by Rapsel Tsariwa with his diligent co-workers in swift flow in gravitating the crowd in exploring the animal realm ill-treatment and the vulnerability of pain!-where onlookers comprehend in total shock.
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ColomboPage News Desk, March 1, 2005
Olcott traveled the country, patronizing the spread of Buddhism.
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Sri Lankan government has taken steps to preserve the house in which Colonel Henry Steel Olcott, considered to be a pioneer in the Buddhist revival in Sri Lanka, lived during his stay in the country.
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Lanka Daily News, Feb 26, 2005
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Buddha Sasana, Public Security Law and Order Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayake said he proposes to appoint qualified teachers to teach the Buddha Dhamma in schools to improve the standard of Buddhist education.
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New Kerala, Feb 21, 2005
Stok, Ladakh (India) -- The fortnight-long traditional festival of Stok Guen Tai-Chen began in an ancient village of remote northern Ladakh region on Sunday (February 20).
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by Tswang Norbu, The Times of Tibet, Feb 15, 2005
Dhramsala, India -- According to the lunar calendar, February 9 was the New Year day. Palpung Sherabling Monastery, the Monastic Seat of the 12th Tai Situ Rinpoche, hold a traditional celebration ceremony in India.
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Indo-Asian News Service, Feb 8, 2005
Bodhgaya, India -- In the heart of a "highly sensitive" area, with murders, arson and bomb blasts common around it, Bodhgaya remains an oasis of calm in the frothing turbulence of Bihar.
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by Upali Rupasinghe, Lanka Daily News, Feb 7, 2005
New Delhi, India -- "The disastrous effects of the tsunami tragedy has made people of Sri Lanka unite, forgetting all differences among nationalities and faith and to work together with dedication for the benefit of one and all, " said Mangala Moonasinghe, High Commissioner for Sri Lanka in India addressing a religious function held on the Independence Day of Sri Lanka to bring merit and peace to those lives lost during the tsunami disaster.
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UNI, Jan 28, 2005
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- The Government has closed two offices associated with the Buddhist spiritual leader Dalai Lama, after ''they were found operating without permission and breaching the Foreign policy of Nepal,'' a local newspaper reported today.
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By Kelsey Blodget, The Dartmouth Staff, January 27, 2005
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Instead of returning home following an off-term teaching English in the coastal Sri Lankan town of Chilaw, Michael Mina '06 decided to put his biochemistry degree at Dartmouth on hold -- and be ordained as a Buddhist monk.
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Situ Dharmakara Foundation, Jan 24, 2005
New Delhi, India -- The 12th Tai Situ Rinpoche and monks of Sherabling organized a special Puja in the fourth week at India International Center, Annexe C, New Delhi on January 23, 2005. The two hour long praying ceremony that began at 6pm was dedicated to the people and beings effected by the Tsunami.
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Press Trust of India, Jan 16, 2005
New Delhi, India -- Union Tourism Secretary Uma Pillai today launched an Asian Development Bank supported programme for reviving Buddhist cultural tourism in south Asia, including India.
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Indo-Asian News Service, Jan 10, 2005
Patna, India -- The December 26 tsunami has badly hit tourism in Bihar with visitors from countries like Sri Lanka and Thailand, which were struck by the killer waves, staying away from the state's Buddhist sites.
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by Koh Lay Chin, The New Straits Times, Jan 8, 2005
MORATUWA, Sri Lanka -- In this grief-stricken country, many are turning to people like Harankave Sunande for comfort, hope and to make some sense of the disaster which hit them on Dec 26.
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By Catherine Philp in Mullaittivu, The Times, January 03, 2005
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- When the wave struck Mullaittivu a week ago, the first to come running to rescue survivors were villagers living inland. Next came the teenage soldiers from the Tamil Tigers, deployed to help the homeless.
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By Laxmi Bahadur Vaidya, The Rising Nepal, Jan 3, 2004
Kathmandu, Nepal -- The Second World Buddhist Summit held in Lumbini from November 30th to December 2nd ended up with the Lumbini Declaration. The main objectives of the summit were to develop the birthplace of Lord Buddha, Lumbini, into an attractive World peace city and promoting the area as an international center for Buddhist studies with the construction of an international airport near Lumbini.
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By DILIP GANGULY, Associated Press Writer, Dec 27, 2004
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Thousands of soldiers scoured Asia's coastlines Monday for survivors of devastating tidal waves that obliterated seaside towns in nine countries, killing more than 14,000 people. Global aid poured into the region, and parents in India mourned as their children were buried in mass graves.
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PTI, Dec 22, 2004
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Expressing regret over the recent bomb attack at Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan's concert here which killed two people and injured 19, Sri Lanka's Buddhist monks on Wednesday blamed extremists for the blast and urged the actor and his troupe not to harbour any "ill feeling" towards the people of the island nation.
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By M. P. Muttiah, Lanka daily News, Dec 19, 2004
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Governor of Southern Province, Kingsley Wickramaratne says that everything changes in the fast moving world, except the teachings of Lord Buddha, which are more than two thousand five hundred years old. Therefore, it has become necessary for everyone to learn and practice the Buddha Dhamma.
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by Anand Mohan Sahay, Rediff.com, December 18, 2004
Patna India -- Here's some bad news for those planning to shoot a film at the Mahabodhi temple, the holiest Buddhist shrine. Making a film at the temple in Bodhgaya, Buddhism's birthplace, has just got costlier.
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IOL, December 16 2004
New Delhi, India -- The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan will become the first country in the world to impose a complete ban on the sale of tobacco when it does so on Friday.
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New Kerala, Dec 15, 2004
Ladakh, India -- Preparations for New Year celebration are at its peak these days across the world. And, the Lamas are not behind. Their way of celebrating the New Year is indeed different and unique. They celebrate singing songs on the death of the "King with the donkey toe", which is traditionally observed as the dawn of the "Losar" (New Year) with fire demonstrations.
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by Rinzin Wangchuk, Kuensel Online, December 15, 2004
Timphu, Bhutan -- More than 5,000 devotees from the eastern dzongkhags are receiving empowerment and transmission of Dudjom Rinpoche's Sungbum or Tersar (25 volumes of collected works of Dudjom Rinpoche) and other blessings from Garab Rinpoche at the Rangjung Woesel Chholing monastery in Trashigang.
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Lanka Daily News, Dec 16, 2004
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- A top level three-day seminar of members of the Buddhist clergy and laity is to be held at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, Colombo from December 17 to December 19 by the Buddha Sasana Ministry on the directive of the Minister of Buddha Sasana, Public Security, Law and Order and Deputy Minister of Defence Ratnasiri Wickremenayake to draw up a programme for the implementation of the main recommendations made in the 2002 Report of the Presidential Commission on the Buddha Sasana.
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by PK Balachanddran, The Hindustan Times, December 15, 2004
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lankans not only see Shahrukh Khan as a great actor, but also as a cultured and humane person who represents the best in Indian and Asian culture.
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PRESS TRUST OF INDIA, December 14, 2004
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka today vowed to punish those responsible for a bomb blast at Shah Rukh Khan?s mega concert here even as the main Buddhist group which had initially opposed the event denied any involvement in the attack.
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Lanka Daily News, Dec 14, 2004
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Government has appointed a Special Committee to inquire and report if there was any connection and/or incitement on the part of any media organisation leading to Saturday's tragic events at the Indian artistes show in Colombo and also to recommend measures on the steps to be taken by the media to prevent a recurrence of the events as that witnessed at the Race Course grounds.
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Indo-Asian News Service, Dec 10, 2004
Ahmedabad, India -- A Tibetan association paid Friday its tributes to the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, to mark the Human Rights Day.
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Express News Service, Dec 12, 2004
New Delhi, India -- ?It is very easy to understand those who agree with you, but not so easy to have a dialogue with those who do not. This is why the stories from the life of Buddha are an important reminder for today?s world leaders, including those combating terrorism,?? said Prof. Satish Kumar, traveller and writer on Buddhism, today evening.
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By Mayank Shekhar, Mid-Day, December 13, 2004
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- A hand-held bomb detonated at Temptation 2004, a musical show led by Shah Rukh Khan, at Colombo?s Race Course open-air theatre on Saturday night. The show was put together by Rediffusion, an event management company partly owned by former cricketer Ravi Shastri.
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Lanka Daily News, Dec 13, 2004
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) leader Ven. Ellawala Medhananda Thera in a media release said his party was not involved in the events that followed the calling off of their Sathyagraha on Saturday and the protests prior to the unfortunate incident.
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Press Trust Of India, December 11, 2004
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has apologised to Sri Lanka's protesting Buddhist monks for the timing of his mega concert here, which coincides with the death anniversary of a popular priest, but said the show will go on.
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ABC News Onlie, Dec 12, 2004
Dharamsala, India -- Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama says 45 years of struggle for Tibetan rights have catapulted the cause of the Tibetan people into the global spotlight.
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The Hindu News Update Service (AP), Dec 10, 2004
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Buddhist monks may set themselves on fire in protest unless organisers postpone a concert of Indian film stars that coincides with the anniversary of a cleric's death, a monk said today.
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By ApunKaChoice Bureau, Dec 9, 2004
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Despite strong protests from Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka regarding the day of Shah Rukh Khan ?s concert in Colombo, the show would be held as previously planned.
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TibetNet, December 10, 2004
Dhramsala, India -- Today, on this special occasion of the 15th anniversary of the conferment of the Nobel Peace Prize to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the World Human Rights day, the Kashag?on behalf of all the Tibetans inside and outside Tibet?would like to offer its deep reverence and greetings to His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The Kashag also extends its greetings and Tashi Deleg to all Tibetans within and without Tibet.
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Lanka Daily News, Dec 10, 2004
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Act of Appointment (Aktapatra) for the newly-appointed Chief Sangha Nayake of Singapore, Ven. Bellanwila Dhammaratana Nayake Thera will be delivered at the Kotte Rajamaha Vihara tomorrow at 2.30 p.m.
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by INDRANI BAGCHI, TIMES NEWS NETWORK, DECEMBER 08, 2004
NEW DELHI, India -- India's offer to build a Buddhist temple in Luoyang in China's Henan province betrays a strong sense of historical deja vu.
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Lanka Daily News, Dec 9, 2004
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The fourteenth convocation of the Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka will be held at 2 p.m. on December 31 at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall. The convocation will be held under the patronage of Most Ven. Weweldeniye Sri Medhalankara Maha Nayake Thera of the Ramanya Nikaya of Sri Lanka and Maha Mahopadhyaya of the Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka.
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by Nava Thakuria, Mizzima News, December 8, 2004
Assam, India -- In view of strengthening the socio-religious and cultural ties with South Asian neighbouring countries including Burma, a group of Buddhist scholars from Northeast India is ready to go on an extensive tour programme.
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by Chamikara Weerasinghe, Lanka Daily News, Dec 8, 2004
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Chief Incumbent of Washington Buddhist Viharaya in the US and chairman of Jana Vijaya Foundation, Ven. Maharagama Dhammasiri Thera yesterday thanked President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga for appointing a three-member committee to investigate the circumstances that led to the death of Ven. Gangodawila Soma Thera.
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Press Trust of India, Dec 6, 2004
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's Buddhist clergy today stepped up a campaign against a concert here by Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan and his troupe saying the carnival coincided with the death anniversary of a monk.
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Indo-Asian News Service, Dec 5, 2004
Patna, India -- Bodh Gaya is to be developed into a popular spiritual and tourist destination in accordance with Unesco specifications. According to tourism department officials here, the Bihar town where Buddha attained enlightenment will be developed as a 'holy city' to match international standards.
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Express News Service, Dec 4, 2004
Vadodara, India -- As many as 15 Indian-born Tibetan students from Delhi University are on a all India Moto rally to mobilise support and funds demanding release of Tibetan religious leader Tulku Tenzin Delek from Chinese prison.
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Lanka Daily News, Dec 6, 2004
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Siri Jayanti Association of Malaysia in collaboration with the Siri Jayanti Welfare Association, Maha Karuna Buddhist Society, Sri Sathya Sai Baba Centre of Brickfields from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and the Buddhist Cultural Centre and the Naga Vihara Buddhist Temple in Sri Lanka is organizing a Medical Camp, the donation of educational equipment for 2000 students and a Maha Sanghika Dana at Hanguranketa on December 12.
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by Sridhar K. Chari, Tribune News Service, Dec 2, 2004
Bangalore, India -- Advocating a ?middle-way approach? towards a solution for Tibet, the Dalai Lama said here today that Tibet was indeed a part of China, and what he sought was not independence but ?genuine autonomy.?
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ANI, Dec 2, 2004
Ladakh, India -- The Buddhist nuns of Ladakh are now reaching out for help and support. With nunneries built and education offered, a few young women will remain ordained. The Nun Association and Nunneries have been formed for the purpose of uplifting the women.
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BBC, Dec 3, 2004
Dhramsala, India -- The Dalai Lama has called on the Chinese authorities to show clemency towards a Tibetan monk whose suspended death sentence ran out on Thursday. Tenzin Deleg Rinpoche was sentenced in 2002, accused of carrying out a series of bomb attacks in south-west China.
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Indo-Asian News Service, Dec 2, 2004
New Delhi, India -- Tibetan activists and Indian parliamentarians held a protest march at the Chinese embassy here Thursday demanding the release of a Buddhist monk facing death sentence.
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UNI, Dec 2, 2004
Kathmandu, Nepal -- The 2nd World Buddhist Summit held in Lumbini has proposed to declare Lumbini the world peace city. In a 10 point declaration passed at the end of the summit today, it called on the government to declare Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha, as the World Peace City.
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Xinhuanet, Dec 2, 2004
LUMBINI, Nepal -- The Second Buddhist Summit concluded Thursday in Nepal's southern city of Lumbini with a declaration on developing the birthplace of Lord Buddha as a worldpeace city.
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By Akhil Tripathi (with Madhav Nepal in Lumbini), Nepalnews.com, Dec 2, 2004
Lumbini, Nepal -- If Islam navigates to Mecca and Bethlehem shines like a star for Christianity, then Lumbini captivates as the birthplace of Buddhism and the cradle of peace and non-violence for the entire globe.
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Nepalnews.com, December 02, 2004
Kathmandu, Nepal -- UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in a statement on Wednesday has sent his greetings to the ongoing 2nd World Buddhist Summit in Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Gautam Buddha.
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Daily Times (Pakistan), (AFP), Dec 1, 2004
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Buddhist monks prayed for world peace Tuesday at the start of a conference in the Nepal village of Lumbini - revered as Buddha?s birthplace - that is aimed at promoting the site as a ?city of world peace.?
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Xinhuanet, Nov 30, 2004
LUMBINI, Nepal -- The Second Buddhist Summitkicked off Tuesday in Nepal's southern city of Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha, with an aim to promote world peace.
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By Pawan Sharma, Hindustan Times, November 29, 2004
Dharamsala, India -- THE INCREASING anxiety of Tibetans regarding the impending execution of their religious leader Tulku Tenzin Delek, manifested into a novel and creative method of protest on late Sunday evening.
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Nepalnews.com, November 29, 2004
Kathmandu, Nepal -- President of the International Buddhist Federation (IBF), Dr Lam, today appealed to the King, the government and the Maoist rebels to observe a weeklong cease-fire during the 2nd World Buddhist Summit slated for Nov 30 to Dec 2 in Lumbini, Lord Buddha's birthplace.
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Indo-Asian News Service, Nov 29, 2004
Kathmandu, Nepal -- A Buddhist monk from Vietnam who plans to hold a global peace meet at the spot where Buddha was born is asking the people of Nepal to end all violence.
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PTI, Nov 27, 2004
Varanasi, India -- Grand celebrations to commemorate the 2550th birth anniversary of Lord Buddha is being planned in 2006 with a series of lectures, cultural programmes and other events across the country and abroad.
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Phayul, November 28, 2004
Kathmandu Bhairahawa -- Preparations are at the last stage in Lumbini and its surrounding for the Second International Buddhist Summit that starts from Tuesday. Newly painted monasteries have given a fresh look to the historically and archeologically important town where Lord Buddha was born.
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Indo-Asian News Service, Nov 28, 2004
Kathmandu, India -- India's Minister of State for External Affairs Rao Inderjit Singh will arrive here Monday on a three-day visit to attend the Second World Buddhist Summit that begins Tuesday.
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By D. Amarasiri Weeraratne, The Island, Nov 26, 2004
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- An ola-leaf document called "Churnikapotha" at the Colombo archives contains details of a Kandyan Buddhist mission by royal emissaries to Arahan in Burma in the year 1693 A.D. The purpose was to get a chapter of monks from Burma to revive the Sinhalese order of Buddhist monks. It had disappeared due to the destruction of Buddhist monasteries and temples and the expulsion of Buddhist monks from the low country ruled by the Portuguese. The monks who fled to the Kandyan territory soon became corrupt and died out due to disturbed conditions of war with the Portuguese.
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TYC, November 25, 2004
Dhramsala, India -- As news spread from the TYC candle light vigil at Delhi on the 24th November, of the assurance given to the former defence minister of India, Mr. George Fernandes by the Chinese Embassy in India, of not executing Tulku Tenzin Delek, Dharamsala woke up on the 25th of November to the ?All India Relay Hunger Strike? under the banner of ?Release Tulku Tenzin Delek Now? campaign initiated by TYC.
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By Karma Choden, Kuensel Online, November 24, 2004
Timphu, Bhutan -- The four main structures consisting of a Tempa (Buddha) Thongdrel , namgay khangzang (altars), a statue of Lord Buddha and gomo rabsey (three pillars) will be the highlights of the Bhutanese pavilion at the World Exposition 2005 in Aichi, Japan.
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By AMY WALDMAN, New York Times, November 25, 2004
LEH, Ladakh (Kashmir, India) -- The young man wore Western clothes, but he paused as he passed the prayer wheel. Then, without self-consciousness, he mounted the steps and spun, circumambulating the wheel in search of good fortune.
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Oana/PTI, Nov 25, 2004
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Buddhist scholars and religious leaders, including from India and Sri Lanka, are likely to consider Nepalese government's proposal to promote Lumbini, the birth place of Gautam Buddha, as a World Peace City during the second World Buddhist Summit starting there on Nov 30.
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By MANJEET SEHGAL WARRIOR, The Telegraph (India), November 23, 2004
Shimla, India -- The Dalai Lama has urged China to recognise Tibet?s cultural identity in the wake of Beijing?s apparent desire to get him to publicly accept both his homeland and Taiwan as parts of China.
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by JULIUS GOMES, The Telegraph (India) , Nov 24, 2004
Calcutta, India -- Encroachers are not leaving even temples in the city alone, if the situation at the 76-year-old Myanmar Buddhist Temple, the only one of its kind in Calcutta, is anything to go by.
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Phayul, November 22, 2004
Kathmandu, Nepal -- The second International Buddhist Conference, being organised in Lumbini from November 30 to December 2, will help in promoting religious tourism, various speakers said while speaking at a programme organised by Nepal Chamber of Commerce here today said.
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by ABDUL QADIR, TIMES NEWS NETWORK, NOVEMBER 22, 2004
GAYA, India -- After more than 12 years, the VHP has regained its lost ground in Bodh Gaya, the seat of Buddha's enlightenment. The organisation suffered a setback when Gyan Jagat, the Mahabodhi Temple superior priest, mysteriously left Bodh Gaya in 1992. Gyan Jagat had been part of the VHP think-tank and a member of its Marg Darshak Mandal.
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NT Bureau, Nov 22, 2004
The five- member group of Buddhists monks of Karyobingo Shomyo Research Group of Japan giving a lecture demonstration on the traditional Buddhist chant of Japan, 'Shomyo Chant', in Chennai yesterday.
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by Upali Rupasinghe, Lanka Daily News, Nov 22, 2004
New Delhi, India -- Around 2,500 Buddhist pilgrims from Sri Lanka are expected to visit India during the next 10 days to participate in the annual Katina Cheevara Dana ceremonies to be held in Buddhagaya and Sarnath.
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by THOMAS BELL, The Indian Express, November 19, 2004
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is not accustomed to leading the world in public health matters, but next month it will become the first country to ban tobacco sales outright.
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Phayul, November 19, 2004
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Nepal has set a budget of 13 million Nepali rupees (about 180,000 US dollars) for the Second World Buddhist Summit slated for Nov. 30 - Dec. 2, organizers said here Friday.
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Press Trust of India, November 17, 2004
Itanagar, India -- A World Peace Park meant to achieve sustainable development of natural and human resources will be inaugurated at the strategically located Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh on November 19.
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Daily Times (AFP), Nov 19, 2004
NEW DELHI, India -- Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh said on Thursday that Buddhist principles of ?mutual respect and peaceful co-existence? should guide relations between India and Pakistan.
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Lanka Daily News, Nov 16, 2004
Viharadhipati, Sri Lanka -- Berlin Buddhist Viharaya Ven. Shastrapati Ratmale Punnaratana thera will lead a seven member Buddhist delegation from Germany to the fourth world Buddhist Congress to be held in Yangon, Myanmar (Burma) from December 9 to 11 this year.
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by Wasantha Ramanayake, Lanka Daily News, Nov 16, 2004
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Supreme Court yesterday reserved the Judgment in the Fundamental Rights application against the sale of merchandised Buddha images filed by Ven. Daranagama Kusaladhamma Thera.
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Press Trust of India, Nov 15, 2004
Bangalore, India -- Around 150 Tibetans in exile commenced a five-day relay hunger strike here today, seeking the immediate release of Buddhist teacher Tulku Tenzin Delek, who, the Tibetan Youth Congress says, has been "falsely" implicated and sentenced to death by the Chinese government.
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By Amlan Home Chowdhury, Mid-Day (India), November 15, 2004
Bodh Gaya, India -- Carbon monoxide (CO) is threatening the existence of the two supreme symbols of Buddhism. The thousands of earthen-cum-metallic lamps, candles and incense sticks burning around the Bo tree under which the Buddha attained enlightenment at Bodh Gaya and within the premises of Mahabodhi Mahavihara are under threat from the poisonous gas.
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Press Trust of India, November 14, 2004
Kolkata, India -- The North-East Zonal Tibetan Youth Congress Committee today sought India's support in securing the release of Tulku Tenzin Delek, a highly respected lama who has been sentenced to death by the Chinese authorities.
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Mosnews.com, November 11, 2004
Dharmsala, India -- Tibet?s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, would be happy to travel to Russia on a pastoral visit provided Moscow gave him a visa of its own accord the Reuters news agency reports, citing a spokesman for the Tibetan government-in-exile.
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Indo-Asian News Service, Nov 11, 2004
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's all-Buddhist monk party has said it would support and join the government's peace council only after the Tamil Tiger rebels accept the territorial integrity and legal framework of the country, Xinhua reports.
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Indo-Asian News Service, Nov 10, 2004
Patna, India -- Monks will use information technology tools like the Internet to spread Buddhism in Muslim-dominated countries of Southeast Asia.
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INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST INFORMATION BUREAU, Nov 10, 2004
Bodhgaya, India -- Representatives of the Vietnamese Buddhist Youth Movement (Gia Dinh Phat Tu Viet Nam) from the USA, Canada, Europe and Australia gathering in Bodhgaya, India, for the Festival of the World Movement of Vietnamese Buddhist Youth from 7-9 November 2004, issued two Resolutions protesting the Vietnamese government?s ban on 21 Buddhist Youth leaders in Vietnam from attending the Festival, and reaffirming their movement?s unwavering support for the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) in its peaceful struggle for religious freedom and human rights in Vietnam.
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ColomboPage News Desk, November 8, 2004
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Ven Elle Gunawansa Thera expressed disapproval over the use Buddhist symbols and terms in political campaigns.
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Story by SANITSUDA EKACHAI, The Bangkok Post, Nov 9, 2004
Lumbini, Nepal -- Encouraged by political openness and spurred by a yearning for peace, more and more Nepalis are finding the confidence to openly declare themselves Buddhist in the land where the Buddha was born.
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The Himalayan Times, November 8, 2004
Bhairahawa, Nepal -- Preparations for the Second World Buddhist Summit, which is scheduled to start on November 30, are on the final stage, the Lumbini Development Trust (LDT) said today.
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by Tenzin Yangdak, Times of Tibet, Nov 9, 2004
Karnataka, India -- There are 5 major Tibetan Settlements situated in Southern Indian state of Karnataka, since mid sixties and seventies. There were over forty five thousand Tibetans, including monks and nuns, in those settlements.
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by L. B. Wijeyasiri, Lanka Daily News, Nov 6, 2004
Kandy, Sri Lanka -- Bhikkhu's getting involved in politics would weaken their interest in education. Lack of knowledge and the decrease of interest in educational research has brought about this deplorable situation, said Most Ven. Thibbotuwawe Sri Siddhartha Sumangala Mahanayake Thera of the Malwatte Mahavihara Chapter.
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by Upali Rupasinghe, Lanka Daily News, Nov 8, 2004
Buddha Gaya, India -- India's President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has accepted a proposal made by President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga to implement a joint programme to develop Buddhagaya in India and Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka.
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Indo-Asian News Service, Nov 6, 2004
Patna, India -- Over 3,000 monks from 30 countries will attend a convention of Buddhist youths in Bihar Sunday to be inaugurated by Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga.
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TIMES NEWS NETWORK, NOVEMBER 8, 2004
GAYA, India -- Sri Lankan president Chandrika Kumaratunga on Sunday offered prayer at Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya. On arrival here from New Delhi, Kumaratunga, leading a 49-member delegation and accompanied by India?s high commissioner to Sri Lanka Nirupama Rao, headed straight to the Bodh Gaya temple to offer prayer.
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Indo-Asian News Service, Nov 7, 2004
Gaya, India -- Thai foreign minister Sathirathai arrived in Bodh Gaya with an 18-member delegation Friday by a special flight and will stay there till Sunday, sources said.
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by Soma Mookherjee, The Statesman, Nov 4, 2004
Kolkata, India -- The state tourism department has decided to create a Buddhist circuit for Japanese tourists frequenting Bodh Gaya. And to get such tourists to also visit Buddhist sites in West Bengal, the state tourism department is planning to retrieve the Buddhist links of Tamluk or erstwhile Tamralipta in Midnapore East. The department has also planned to rope in Jaggibanpur in Malda in the Buddhist circuit as many relics and figurines were excavated from this area in the early nineties.
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by Tenzin Yangdak, Times of Tibet, Nov 3, 2004
Dhramsala, India -- How true it is that the more we learn, the more unknown objects of knowledge we get to know. The great Indian Buddhist master Atisha states:
Our life-span is short where as the number of knowable objects are manifold, Since, we lack the understanding of our life limit
We should enthusiastically practice our choice (of engagement and not everything), Just as swan (skillfully) extracts milk from water.
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By Chamikara Weerasinghe, Lanka Daily News, Nov 1, 2004
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- One hundred Buddhist monks of the Asgiriya Chapter will call on Nalanda College, Colombo today to preach the dhamma to its students in the school's one hundred classrooms in a massive Buddhist programme, organised by the Old Nalandians' Buddhist Association, to mark the school's 80th anniversary.
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Lanka Daily News, Oct 30, 2004
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Canadian High Commission in Sri Lanka responding to various media reports which the Commission considers erroneous, states that the "monks willingly agreed to comply with the security protocols, provided them with a private changing facility with private shower along with new robes."
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Khaleej Times, (AFP), October 29, 2004
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Canada's mission in Sri Lanka is to re-open, a week after an anthrax scare sparked a diplomatic crisis, which deepened Friday after Buddhist monks described how they were forced to strip.
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by Sarath Malalasekera, Lanka Daily News, Oct 29, 2004
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Chief Magistrate and Additional District Judge Ms. Sarojini Kusala Weerawardena yesterday sentenced Gamini Ranawaka of Wijerama Mawatha, Colombo, who was charged with superimposing the Buddha's image on women's clothing through the Internet, to two years rigorous imprisonment, suspended for five years.
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PTI, Oct 28, 2004
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka lodged a strong protest with Canada after its diplomats allegedly disrobed three Buddhist monks and forced them under a shower during an anthrax scare, a senior Minister said today, as Canada denied that the monks, seeking visas at the Canadian embassy in Colombo, were forced to strip.
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Borneo Bulletin (AFP), Oct 27, 2004
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's influential Buddhist clergy Tuesday protested to the Canadian High Commission (embassy) here after staff members disrobed three monks who had triggered an anthrax scare.
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by Wasantha Ramanayake, Lanka Daily News, Oct 23, 2004
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Court of Appeal yesterday issued notice on the Commissioner of Motor Traffic in the writ application compelling the commissioner to issue a driving licence to a Buddhist monk.
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by Renu Kshetry, The Himalayan Times, October 21, 2004
33-year-old Ani, two others to act in documentary on life of nuns.
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Mail and Guardian Online (Sapa-DPA), 26 October 2004
New Delhi, India -- The Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, will visit South Africa in November, it was announced on Tuesday.
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TibetNet, October 25, 2004
Dharamsala, India -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama yesterday graced the 44th anniversary celebrations of Bhuso Khang (nursery for Tibetan children) or the Tibetan Children?s Village school as it is called now.
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Sify News, 23 October, 2004
Nagpur, India -- As many as 65,000 people have embraced Buddhism at Deeksha Bhoomi in Nagpur on 'Dhamma Chakra Pravartan Din' on Friday.
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ANI, Oct 22, 2004
Dharamshala, India -- A five-day-long conference on Buddhist teachings and science presided over by the Dalai Lama concluded in Dharamshala on Friday.
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Indo-Asian News Service, Oct 14, 2004
Kathmandu, Nepal -- At the age of 93, a former Nazi soldier has taken up a new battle -- fighting to restore a 200-year-old Buddhist centre in Nepal ravaged by time, nature and human hands.
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Press Information Bureau (India), Oct 18, 2004
New Delhi, India -- Vietnam has shown keen interest in Indian Buddhist sites. To facilitate visit of Vietnamese in larger groups, both the countries will consider possibilities of direct airlink and other measures required.
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