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By my rough estimation, we spend perhaps 50 percent or more of our waking hours in storytelling. Humans make stories but, in some sense, we are also made by our stories. Read more: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, History, Islam, Sri Lanka Civil War, The Bible, Postmodernism, Science, Quran, Morality, Psychology, Religion and Science, Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, Stories, Myths, ...
- On Science And Religion: A Buddhist Monk's Perspective (Category: Features)
- Robert Lanza, M.D.: Religion Vs. Science's Answers To The Big Questions (Category: Features)
- John Stanley: Buddhism, Cosmology And Evolution (Category: Features)
- Pushed By Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhists Study Science (Category: Features)
Gautama the Buddha and Buddhism have made excellent contributions towards strengthening the Indian Way, which is based on universal acceptance, particularly in making it dynamic and bringing the common man into its fold. Buddha’s contribution for taking this way in his time, when it was a narrow path, cannot be underestimated.
Last week I attended the festive opening of the Guibord Center at St. John's Cathedral in downtown Los Angeles. Founded by the Rev. Dr. Gwynne Guibord, former Officer of Ecumenical and Interreligious Concerns for The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, the center's mission is "to bring people together, to challenge assumptions, unleash The Holy and affirm the faith that transforms the wor...
- Eboo Patel: A Blessing from the Dalai Lama (Category: Features)
- Lewis Richmond: Do Buddhists Believe In God? (Category: Features)
- Matthew Weiner: An Interfaith Buddhist Response to the Ground Zero Protests (Category: Features)
Over the past month, there has been some speculation among members of the global Tamil community on whether Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa visited Texas to obtain cancer treatment in secret. The story in itself is not particularly interesting, but it does have relevance for the post-conflict situation in Sri Lanka. Many reacted to the news not with sadness, but with a sense that c...
- Why religion, discussions of karma and intention, restrict genuine reconciliation between Sinhal... (Category: Breaking News)
- Thomas David DuBois: The Evolving Understanding Karma (Category: Features)
- William Grassie: Storied Nature Of Human Nature (Category: Features)
- Kevin Griffin: Recovery Through The Higher Power Of Karma (Category: Features)
By Vishal Arora Religion News Service NEW DELHI (RNS) India plans to lend rare fragments of the Buddha's bones to Sri Lanka for the 2,600th anniversary of Buddha's Enlightenment in May, and some see it as part of India's strategy to gain a regional edge over neighboring China. Indranil Banerjie, head of New Delhi-based think tank Security and Political Risk Analysis, said India's mov...
- Rajan P. Parrikar: Varanasi: India's Holy City (PHOTOS) (Category: Features)
- Varanasi - India's Holy City (PHOTOS) (Category: Features)
- Around The World In 10 Photos (Category: Features)
A decade ago, having recently begun Buddhist meditation practice, I attended a lecture/Q&A with a Tibetan master at a Buddhist center in Hollywood. The warm vibes and the stunning icons and paintings suggested a sacred, healing space. The speaker -- I knew so little at the time, I thought his name was "Sri" -- seemed the embodiment of enlightenment. He described how we can foster spiritua...
- Buddhism's Sacred Places (PHOTOS) (Category: Features)
- Meeting Our Minds: Is Meditation Practical? (Category: Features)
A bright new face has been added to the crowded Web, drawing a large readership and uploading more than 900 stories in its first twelve weeks. Still in soft-launch, The Jim Luce Stewardship Report (JLSR) is focused on "Connecting Goodness." Covering Faces, Issues, World Affairs, Life Style, the Arts, and Video, JLSR offers articles by a global mix of over 50 writers since its spring inc...
- Jim Luce: Evil in America? U.S. Fundamentalist Group to Burn Koran on 9/11 (Category: Features)
- Sharon Glassman: Dear Radio Diary: Behind the Scenes at Boomer Alley Radio (Category: Features)
- Lodro Rinzler: The Buddhist Gentleman: How to Buy Nice Clothes (Category: Features)
CEB which has incurred a heavy loss can be resurrected with a new action plan – both in terms of financial and corporate. The trade unions also support this effort. Their suggestions are also included in the action plan. It is a bottom-up approach which aims at transforming the CEB into a profitable insititution Renewable energy will be the new order of the energy sector in Sri Lanka in the...
The war continues to rage in Afghanistan. The enduring violence and conflict has left the nation, its people and economy in ruins. Over the past nine years, billions of dollars have been spent and army commanders have come and gone. Like many of its neighbours in the Middle East, Afghanistan continues to find its existence challenged by the problem of terrorism, fundamentalism and fanatic...
- Blunt Charge (Category: Business)
- China passes law to help fight “acts of terror” (Category: Business)
- Shakespeare gives hope to Afghanistan arts revival (Category: Business)
- Hamid Karzai lambasts Shehbaz Sharif’s remarks about presence of terrorist groups in Afghanistan (Category: Breaking News)
Religion comes into conflict with science when it is defined by unprovable claims that can be dismissed as superstitions, and when it treats as historical facts stories that read like legends and myths to non-believers. Other aspects of religion -- what I would consider the deeper and more significant elements -- are not only compatible with science but enrich its findings. The best evi...
- Pushed By Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhists Study Science (Category: Features)
- David Loy: A Buddhist Philosophy Of Evolution (Category: Features)
- On Science And Religion: A Buddhist Monk's Perspective (Category: Features)
I was excited to be able to address Lafayette College's Class of 2010 on the topic of "Awakening the Buddha Within." This very well might be the first time in Lafayette's history that the Baccalaureate Sermon was rendered from a Buddhist perspective, so I was thankful for this unique opportunity. The Baccalaureate Sermon has a long and proud tradition at Lafayette College. On June 16th, ...
- Lewis Richmond: The Buddha's Teachings About The Soul (Category: Features)
- Lewis Richmond: Buddhist Thoughts on Impermanence, Plutonium and Beauty (Category: Features)
- Lama Surya Das: Who and What Is Buddha, Really? (Category: Features)
- Who and What Is Buddha, Really? (Category: Features)
An expatriate Sri Lankan woman who wrote two books about her conversion from Buddhism to Islam has been arrested while on holiday in Sri Lanka, apparently for causing offence to Buddhists. Read more: Censorship, Sarah Malini Perera, Buddhists, Akon, Authors, Sri Lanka, Author Arrested, Books, Buddhism, Books News
- Sri Lanka Author Sarah Malini Perera Arrested For 'Offending Buddhists' (Category: Features)
- Sri Lanka Author Sarah Malini Perera Arrested For 'Offending Buddhists' (Category: Features)
- Author Sarah Malini Perera held ‘for offending Buddhists’ in Sri Lanka (Times Online) (Category: Breaking News)
- Owen Flanagan, Ph.D.: Bourgeois Buddhists: Do Americans Miss The Point Of Buddhism? (Category: Features)
Last night PBS aired The Buddha, a new TV special about the sage's life, impact, and particular relevance to our own bewildering times of violent change and spiritual confusion. By filmmaker David Grubin, the documentary features the work of some of the world's greatest artists and sculptors, who across two millennia have depicted the Buddha's life through art rich in beauty and complexit...
- Who and What Is Buddha, Really? (Category: Features)
- David Nichtern: Raising Power and Energy to Meet the Challenge of Living (Category: Features)
- Lama Surya Das: Life In Buddha Standard Time (Category: Features)
- Vaishali: Mindful in the Modern Age of Technology (Category: Features)
An expatriate Sri Lankan woman who wrote two books about her conversion from Buddhism to Islam has been arrested while on holiday in Sri Lanka, apparently for causing offence to Buddhists. Read more: Censorship, Sarah Malini Perera, Buddhists, Akon, Authors, Sri Lanka, Author Arrested, Books, Buddhism, Books News
- Sri Lanka Author Sarah Malini Perera Arrested For 'Offending Buddhists' (Category: Features)
- Sri Lanka Author Sarah Malini Perera Arrested For 'Offending Buddhists' (Category: Features)
- Author Sarah Malini Perera held ‘for offending Buddhists’ in Sri Lanka (Times Online) (Category: Breaking News)
- Owen Flanagan, Ph.D.: Bourgeois Buddhists: Do Americans Miss The Point Of Buddhism? (Category: Features)
Last night PBS aired The Buddha, a new TV special about the sage's life, impact, and particular relevance to our own bewildering times of violent change and spiritual confusion. By filmmaker David Grubin, the documentary features the work of some of the world's greatest artists and sculptors, who across two millennia have depicted the Buddha's life through art rich in beauty and complexit...
- Lama Surya Das: Who and What Is Buddha, Really? (Category: Features)
- Lama Surya Das: Life In Buddha Standard Time (Category: Features)
- Vaishali: Mindful in the Modern Age of Technology (Category: Features)
- Ken McLeod: What Is Enlightenment? (Category: Features)
An expatriate Sri Lankan woman who wrote two books about her conversion from Buddhism to Islam has been arrested while on holiday in Sri Lanka, apparently for causing offence to Buddhists. Read more: Censorship, Sarah Malini Perera, Buddhists, Akon, Authors, Sri Lanka, Author Arrested, Books, Buddhism, Books News
- Sri Lanka Author Sarah Malini Perera Arrested For 'Offending Buddhists' (Category: Features)
- Sri Lanka Author Sarah Malini Perera Arrested For 'Offending Buddhists' (Category: Features)
- Author Sarah Malini Perera held ‘for offending Buddhists’ in Sri Lanka (Times Online) (Category: Breaking News)
- Owen Flanagan, Ph.D.: Bourgeois Buddhists: Do Americans Miss The Point Of Buddhism? (Category: Features)
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