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...soul from death to rebirth in one of seven orders of being, ranging from the highest, bodhisattvas (those who have attained enlightenment), to hungry ghosts or, still worse, those who have been banished to hell. The sutra was one of the first attempts to syncretize the Indian Buddhist philosophy of karmic debt with the traditional Chinese belief that the dead simply went to an underground world identical to the one they had left behind. It is a fitting testament to the influence of the Silk Road that it was the carrier not only of commodities and innovations that forever changed...
...giant monument's birth being greeted with this distinctly un-Buddhist-like anti-p.r. campaign? Local reporters, who obtained access to internal provincial documents, say the statue was built with the approval of Li Changchun, who was Henan's Communist Party secretary in the 1990s before taking up his present post in 2003 as the Party's national propaganda chief. Li presided over Henan precisely when the local government was turning a blind eye to peasants contracting HIV by selling their blood, which was collected with tainted equipment. When the scandal was exposed four years ago, Li may have...
They drink, they smoke, they rarely get out of bed before 3 p.m. And they have cool hairdos. Hiroki Ueno, 23, and Yoshinobu Fujioka, 27, are not your typical Shinto-Buddhist monks, and their bar Vowz, tel: (81-3) 3353 1032, is not your average Buddhist enterprise either. Located in a former geisha precinct of Tokyo's Shinjuku ward, the bar is not known so much for spreading the good word as it is for its killer cocktails, liqueurs and sake...
...Three Buddhist monks, including a 13-year-old novice, are stabbed to death within 72 hours as they collect food offerings in Yala...
...Unidentified attackers kill a police officer in Yala and burn a Buddhist temple in Narathiwat...