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Foreign Buddhist practitioners visit key Tibetan sites
More than 20 monks and officials from 12 countries visited the Lama Temple and the China Tibetology Research Center in ...
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Zen-osaurus! Buddhist temple installs moving diplodocus next to pulpit
A Buddhist temple amazed visitors by installing a moving diplodocus next to the pulpit. Monks installed the towering 40ft animatronic alongside a golden Buddha shrine in Khon Kaen, northeast Thailand.
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13 monks receive doctorate-equivalent degrees in Tibetan Buddhism
LHASA -- Thirteen monks were on Tuesday awarded the prestigious Tibetan Buddhist academic degree Geshe Lharampa, equivalent ...
The Japan Times3d
Zojoji Buddhist scriptures added to UNESCO Memory of the World
The scriptures were collected by Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan's Edo era, and donated ...
Who controls Bodh Gaya's Mahabodhi temple — and why are Buddhist monks rising in protest?
The Hindu monks assumed control of the Bodh Gaya site after Buddhism’s decline in India following Islamic invasions in the ...
The Straits Times13d
India overhauls teaching in Himalayan Buddhist monasteries to counter China
"We are trying to inculcate Indian identity through education along with Buddhism to make sure China can never control our monasteries in the Himalayas," said Maling Gombu, a Buddhist worker of ...