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Steveston Buddhist Temple plans vigil for Japan - Straight.com


Steveston Buddhist Temple plans vigil for JapanStraight.comThe Steveston Buddhist Temple is organizing a 12-hour vigil for Japan earthquake and tsunami relief on Saturday (March 26). Called Canada Cares, the public event will feature contributions from other religious ... ...>

Tibetan Buddhist Monks Will Construct Colorful, Sacred Mandala at the … - Business Wire (press release)


Tibetan Buddhist Monks Will Construct Colorful, Sacred Mandala at the ...Business Wire (press release)(BUSINESS WIRE)--The University of Redlands will welcome a group of Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery to campus from April 4-8, when they will be constructing a mandala sand pai ...>

In Japan, Hasty Burial for the Dead Collides With Tradition - New York Times


The West AustralianIn Japan, Hasty Burial for the Dead Collides With TraditionNew York TimesLater in the day, Buddhist monks would come to the site to pray over the graves. But for now, the soldiers boarded the truck and drove off, leaving the mourners alone. As if on cue, the wind died, and the sun ...>

Desperate, Japan Buries Dead in Mass Graves - Voice of America


Desperate, Japan Buries Dead in Mass GravesVoice of AmericaAll the remains placed in the mass grave so far have been identified, and coffins marked, so families can provide a more traditional Buddhist funeral at a later time. That involves a wake ceremony before cremation. Relatives then use chopsti ...>

Quake-ravaged Japan digs mass graves - Reuters India


Quake-ravaged Japan digs mass gravesReuters IndiaUNOSUMAI, Japan (Reuters) - The towering waves that splintered thousands of Japanese homes and lives has forced the country to rethink one of its most sacred Buddhist practices: how it treats the dead. Desperate municipalities are ...and more &ra ...>

Green Buddhist Monastery Rises in Nepal - EarthTechling


EarthTechlingGreen Buddhist Monastery Rises in NepalEarthTechlingTrungram Gyaltrul Rinpoche is both a Tibetan Buddhist master and a Harvard Ph.D. The non-profit organization he founded–United Trungram Buddhist Fellowship (UTBF)–is applying the Rimpoche's combination of spiritual ... ...>

Small-town school graduation lifts spirits in battered Japan - Reuters


Small-town school graduation lifts spirits in battered JapanReutersShortly after the students left, another ceremony was held at the school, this time by a Buddhist priest for a victim of the tsunami and whose body, like a few others, still remain in a school hall being used as a temporary morgue.an ...>

Bomb follows killings in restive southern Thailand - The Hindu


Bomb follows killings in restive southern ThailandThe HinduAP Narathiwat is one of three Muslim-majority provinces in mostly Buddhist Thailand where a separatist insurgency has claimed more than 4300 lives since 2004. A roadside bomb has exploded in a southern Thai village where three people were fa ...>

Quake-ravaged Japan digs mass graves - Reuters Africa


Reuters AfricaQuake-ravaged Japan digs mass gravesReuters AfricaUNOSUMAI, Japan (Reuters) - The towering waves that splintered thousands of Japanese homes and lives has forced the country to rethink one of its most sacred Buddhist practices: how it treats the dead. Desperate municipalities are ...an ...>

Sacramento Buddhist Church collects donations for Japan - Sacramento Bee


Sacramento Buddhist Church collects donations for JapanSacramento BeeThe Sacramento Buddhist Church has turned into Sendai Relief Central with an army of volunteers sorting through mountains of clothes, blankets, toys and food for those who fled the tsunami with nothing. By 4 pm Tuesday, ...and more ...>

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