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After 75 years, Dalai Lama more important than ever

It is three quarters of a century since the Dalai Lama’s coronation as the temporal and spiritual leader of Tibet. He is now almost 80 years old and still presents a dilemma for Western leaders, who routinely come under pressure from Beijing not to meet him whenever he visits their countries.

His appearance with Barack Obama at the US’s National Prayer Breakfast on February 5, 2015 was a perfect example. The media coverage and scholarly exchanges that swirled around the event focused on whether the White House should receive the Dalai Lama at all – and what the costs of a presidential meeting with the Tibetan leader might ultimately be.

There was also naturally a reassessment of the Dalai Lama’s goals and achievements, and the same old criticisms of him surfaced once again.

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This Buddhist Monk Used His Own Practice To Make Peace With Cancer

In 2011, William Tran, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk with the honorable ranking of Highest Buddhist Master, went to the dentist for inflammation in his gums. Antibiotics did not help and when the dentist saw him again, he was so concerned that he personally took Tran to the emergency room.

There, Tran was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and was told 
that his disease might not be cured. After chemotherapy treatment, 
a period of remission and then a relapse, his doctors at Cedars-Sinai 
hospital in Los Angeles, California decided that it was time to 
investigate transplant options. When they could not find a perfect match 
for him for a bone marrow or stem cell transplant, Tran’s doctors looked 
to a relatively new transplantation option for adults with promising 
results: umbilical cord transplants. Before Tran could receive his 
transplant from donated and matched umbilical cord blood, he went 
through another vigorous round of chemotherapy to get him back into remission.

Tran’s transplant was successful and he has been in remission from 
leukemia for six months. He is back home at his temple in Garden 
Grove, California, just three miles from Disneyland, surrounded by 
students, nuns and friends. The Huffington Post met with him and 
a translator -- a longtime family friend and student by the name of 
Roy Le -- to learn about what cancer looks like through the eyes of 
a Buddhist monk.

 

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The man who helped blow up the Bamiyan Buddhas

12 March 2015 BBC Afghan By Nasir Behzad  and Daud Qarizadah

The ancient sandstone carvings, once the world's tallest Buddhas, were annihilated in an act of destruction that shocked the world, and helped set a precedent for the recent vandalism of Iraqi heritage sites by Islamic State fighters.

A lot has happened in Afghanistan in the 14 years since the Buddhas were destroyed, but for Mirza Hussain the memory is still vivid.

"First they fired at the Buddhas with tanks and artillery shells," he says. "But when that was ineffective, they planted explosives to try to destroy them."

At this point, he says, he was drafted in along with other local men being held by the Taliban.

Mr Hussain, like most people in Bamiyan city, is a Shia Muslim and therefore was regarded as an enemy - or even an infidel - by the Sunni Taliban.

They took control of the mountainous province in May 1999 after many months of fighting. The locals either fled or were taken captive.

Mirza Hussain now works as a bicycle repair man

The Buddha only shows the way.. We ourselves should tread the path

In approaching Dhamma Vinaya it is necessary to come to it with the right attitude, right understanding and right intention. By way of understanding the Dhamma & Vinaya, we should not take it to be something that demands to be accepted on faith or tradition. Also Dhamma Vinaya should not be taken to be a set of doctrines to be played with; intellectually. Dhamma Vinaya is essentially a path, a way that leads to the realization of truth, and Dhamma Vinaya is also the truth to be realized.

Limbs for Life Prostheses Centre gets RM200,000 donation

Posted on 24 March 2015 - Vathani Panirchellvum  newsdesk@thesundaily.com

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PETALING JAYA: Nowadays with the cost of living rising, it comes 
as a relief when someone in need gets something free.

That is exactly what the Limbs for Life Prostheses Centre is doing to 

help the underprivileged people who lost their legs in an accident or diseases. They are given free artificial limbs to help them be 
independent and to move on with life.

The centre run by the Bandar Utama Buddhist Society is doing this 

community service project to help the poor and less fortunate or for 
a small donation for those who can afford it.