Buddhist Answers to Question asked 026 : Buddhism and the Precepts

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Published on Oct 16, 2014

Venerable Pasura Dhantamano was born in Thailand and has over 25 years of meditation experience. He studied a master’s degree in International Relations. He is the chief of international relations division, Wat Phra Dhammakaya, Thailand, an organization dedicated to spreading world peace through inner peace.

Five rewards in listening to the Dhamma

‘Kung Fu’ nuns bike Himalayas to oppose human trafficking

Reuters| September 16, 2016

This is the fourth such journey they have made, meeting local 
people, government officials and religious leaders to spread 
messages of gender equality, peaceful co-existence and respect 
for the environment.

NEW DELHI: Clad in black sweatpants, red jackets and white helmets, 
the hundreds of cyclists pedaling the treacherously steep, narrow 
mountain passes to India from Nepal could be mistaken for a Himalayan 
version of the Tour de France.

“Not Sure!'' - The Standard of the Noble Ones

As soon as the mind thinks of something we send it out, send it out every time. We don't realise that it's simply the habitual proliferation of the mind. It disguises itself as wisdom and waffles off into minute detail. This mental proliferation seems very clever, if we didn't know we would mistake it for wisdom. But when it comes to the crunch it's not the real thing. When suffering arises where is that so-called wisdom then? Is it of any use? It's only proliferation after all.

Tourism transforms long-hidden Buddhist valley in Himalayas

By Thomas Cytrynowicz, AP, September 14, 2016

DEMUL VILLAGE, India -- For centuries, the sleepy valley nestled in the Indian Himalayas remained a hidden Buddhist enclave forbidden to outsiders.

Enduring the harsh year-round conditions of the high mountain desert, the people of Spiti Valley lived by a simple communal code - share the Earth’s bounty, be hospitable to neighbors, and eschew greed and temptation at all turns.

That’s all starting to change, for better or worse. Since India began allowing its own citizens as well as outsiders to visit the valley in the early 1990s, tourism and trade have boomed. And the marks of modernization, such as solar panels, asphalt roads and concrete buildings, have begun to appear around some of the villages that dot the remote landscape at altitudes above 4,000 meters (13,000 feet).

Buddhist Answers to Question asked 025 : What should I do after I’ve lost my job

Published on Oct 16, 2014

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Vietnamese Authorities Demolish Buddhist Pagoda in Ho Chi Minh City

Radio Free Asia, Sept 12, 2016

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam -- Government authorities in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City have destroyed a Buddhist pagoda from which they recently evicted monks, and have moved all of the temple’s contents to another location, the head of the religious institution said Monday.

<< Buddhist monk Thich Khong Tanh, abbot of the Lien Tri Pagoda in Ho Chi Minh City, discusses the iron-fist rule of the Communist Party 40 years after the Vietnam War, April 9, 2015.

On Sept. 8, authorities forcibly removed all monks from Lien Tri Pagoda, which belongs to the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam and is located in district two of the city’s An Khanh ward, to clear the land for a lucrative development project. The Vietnamese government does not recognize the church.