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Buddhists Remember Japan's Tsunami Victims
By not in system - AOL NewsSOMA, Japan -- Buddhist priests in black and gold robes chanted and rang bells Thursday to mark the 49th day since Japan's massive tsunami when the dead are believed to end their restless wandering through the devastated coastline. About 1,200 mourners filled a hall to overflowing, with many standing outside a gate, for a ceremony organized by 170 priests in the northeastern town of Soma, where much of the coast remains buried in mountains of debris from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Many carried framed photographs of lost loved ones, and wept. Some clutched wooden tablets containing ...
Dalai Lama Will Give Up Political Role
By not in system - AOL NewsDHARMSALA, India - The Dalai Lama said Thursday that he will give up his political role in the Tibetan government-in-exile and shift that power to an elected representative, as the 76-year-old Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader struggles with growing worries about who will succeed him when he dies. Speaking on the anniversary of the failed 1959 uprising against Chinese rule in his Himalayan homeland that sent him into exile, the Dalai Lama said the time had come "to devolve my formal authority to the elected leader." While he has long said that he wants the exile government to take on ...
Researchers Say They Can Restore 1 of Destroyed Bamiyan Buddhas
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsResearchers in Germany said today they believe it may be possible to reconstruct the smaller of the two 1,500-year-old Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban before the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan. Rebuilding the statue, however, would be an enormous task that might require transporting some 1,400 pieces to Germany or constructing a factory in Bamiyan, where the monuments were located. AFP / Getty Images German researchers say they may be able to rebuild one of the two 1,500-year-old Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. The once-colorful statues, ...
Sent by the Dalai Lama, Tibetan Monks Turn Coeds
By not in system - AOL NewsATLANTA -- Munching on pizza. Posting on Facebook. Hanging out with friends on weekends. Some of the newest students at Emory University's student body may act like typical college kids, but there's a key difference: They're Tibetan monks sent by the Dalai Lama to the United States to learn science. Wearing the traditional crimson robes and closely shorn heads of Tibetan monastics, the six men -- most in their 30s -- are taking physics, biology and chemistry classes with hopes of returning to Tibetan monasteries in India to teach science to other monks and nuns. It's the first established ...
He's a Deity. He's a Pitchman. He's Buddha
By Karen Schwartz - AOL NewsFORT COLLINS, Colo. (Dec. 8) -- A Buddha-shaped handhold hangs on an elementary school climbing wall, and the children are taught to rub his belly for luck. A plump Buddha candle purchased at Whole Foods has basset-like ears and a chubby smiling face that melt away as it burns. From Gotama skis to the guitar-playing Buddha on the waistband tag of True Religion Brand Jeans (made in the U.S.A.), Buddha makes a heck of a pitchman -- ironically so, since the world's 400 million Buddhists believe that self-denial is one of the steps enabling the soul to reach nirvana. Since today is Bodhi Day, ...
Disgraced Ex-Congressman Bob Ney Studying Buddhism at Indian Temple
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyHe's traveled quite a path. Former Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio) served six terms in Congress, then spent 17 months in federal prison for his role in the Jack Abramoff scandal. Now he is studying meditation at a Buddhist Temple in India. Ney, 56, told the National Journal in a phone interview that since September he has lived in a $10-a-day rented room in Dharamsala, the Dalai Lama's headquarters-in-exile for more than 50 years. The ex-congressman quit drinking, dropped 60 pounds and spends his days meditating with monks and learning the Tibetan language. Ney, who pleaded guilty to conspiring to ...
Dalai Lama and Scientists Dig Compassion, Differ on Approach
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Oct. 18) -- Even for someone known for his nomadic ways, the Dalai Lama has been on quite a journey lately, albeit an academic one. First, on Thursday, the 14th spiritual leader of Tibet visited Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., where he spent two days giving talks, including one before a conference of top-tier scientists hoping to determine the neurobiological roots of social compassion and empathy. Then, on Sunday, he showed up for a three-day-long stay at Emory University in Atlanta, appearing under the title "Presidential Distinguished Professor" and lecturing on behalf of a ...
Phil Jackson's Return as Lakers Coach as Explained by Zen Buddhism
By Carl Franzen - AOL NewsThe story of Phil Jackson is already the stuff of legends, but after leading the Los Angeles Lakers to yet another championship victory this year, the so-called "Zen Master" isn't ready to close the book on his sports career just yet. Today, 65-year-old Jackson -- whose health has reportedly been ailing in recent years -- reversed course on earlier statements indicating he would retire and announced that he will, in fact, be returning to coach the Lakers for a record-setting 11th tenured season. Besides the possibility of achieving a flabbergasting 12th NBA championship -- and a fourth ...
Monk Accused of Secretly Filming Nude Women
By Terence Neilan - AOL News(June 29) -- A Cambodian Buddhist monk with more than Zen on his mind has been charged in Phnom Penh with secretly filming naked women bathing in a temple's holy water and then sharing the clips. Charged with "producing and distributing pornographic images," Net Khai faces a year in jail if convicted, a prosecutor in the capital city told Agence France-Presse. A police chief said Net Khai, 37, has confessed to filming "hundreds of women since 2008," the agency reported. "They came to the monk to be blessed with holy water, but they were secretly filmed," said police chief Touch Naruth. "His ...
Dalai Lama: The World Is Getting 'Happier'
By David Knowles - AOL News(May 20) -- To hear the Dalai Lama, the state of the world is improving, and many of the problems facing humanity are poised to disappear in the coming century. "I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier," the Dalai Lama said on NBC's "Today" show this morning. Tibetan Buddhism's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, 74, spoke of his belief that because much of the world's suffering is the product of human behavior, it can also be fixed. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy "Basically, these problems are temporary," the Dalai Lama ...
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