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Growing calls for SKorean priests to pay taxes - AFP


AFPGrowing calls for SKorean priests to pay taxesAFP - 12 hours agoMBC TV last week aired footage showing Christian pastors and Buddhist priests in posh homes, using expensive cars and even trading in temples for profit. ...Religious Leaders Pressed to Pay Tax Korea Timesall 3 news articles ...>

Sri Lanka celebrates 60th anniversary amid intense security - Hindu


Sri Lanka celebrates 60th anniversary amid intense securityHindu, India - 4 hours agoA day earlier a bomb on a bus killed 18 people, mostly Buddhist pilgrims, in the central town of Dambulla, about 150 kilometers (90 miles) northeast of ... ...>

Sri Lankan celebrates 60th anniversary amid intense security - International Herald Tribune


Sri Lankan celebrates 60th anniversary amid intense securityInternational Herald Tribune, France - 6 hours agoA day earlier a bomb on a bus killed 18 people, mostly Buddhist pilgrims, in the central town of Dambulla, about 150 kilometers (90 miles) northeast of ... ...>

Thai monk collects skulls in homage to buffalo - AFP


AFPThai monk collects skulls in homage to buffaloAFP - 40 minutes agoThe abbot of the Buddhist temple, Phra Khru Wiboonpattankit, has been collecting the skulls for more than 35 years. He hopes eventually to have enough to ... ...>

Scandal gnaws at Buddha's holy tree in India - Washington Post


Scandal gnaws at Buddha's holy tree in IndiaWashington Post, United States - 3 hours agoBuddhist scriptures describe it as the "Navel of the Earth," and 100000 pilgrims and tourists visit every year, packing the town of Bodh Gaya in Bihar state ... ...>

SOCIAL IN BRIEF 3/2 - VietNamNet Bridge


VietNamNet BridgeSOCIAL IN BRIEF 3/2VietNamNet Bridge, Vietnam - 1 hour agoMost Venerable Thich Thanh Tu, Vice President of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha’s Executive Council, has pledged that the Sangha would always be an active ... ...>

New Year event in Tibet draws 100000 Buddhist followers - Xinhua


New Year event in Tibet draws 100000 Buddhist followersXinhua, China - 1 hour ago3 (Xinhua) -- More than 100000 Buddhist followers have converged at a Tibetan monastery to celebrate a local religious festival in Lhasa, ... ...>

China jails Tibetan monk for "inciting masses" - Reuters India


China jails Tibetan monk for "inciting masses"Reuters India, India - Feb 3, 2008BEIJING (Reuters) - The abbot of a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in southwest China has been jailed for three years on charges of endangering national security ... ...>

Closing in Somerville - Boston Globe


Boston GlobeClosing in SomervilleBoston Globe, United States - 42 minutes agoJaed Coffin grew up in Maine, spent a summer in a Buddhist monastery, and has worked as a boxer and lobsterman. McIntyre and Moore Booksellers in Somerville ... ...>

Buddhist immersion - Evening Observer


Buddhist immersionEvening Observer, NY - 47 minutes agoThis was a typical morning for Josh Ibach of Dunkirk during his three-month stay as a volunteer at Odiyan Buddhist Retreat Center in Berkeley, Calif. ... ...>