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Mystery, magic and murder in Mandalay
Mandalay :: Myanmar | 8 months ago
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Images of a virgin territory full of exotic tradition, legend and mysteries are quickly dispelled as we arrive at Mandalay International Airport in the middle of the morning to find the staff turning on the lights, officers shouting at each other and
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Pakistan struggles with smuggled Buddhist relics
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 9 months ago
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Lacking the necessary cash and manpower, Pakistan is struggling to stem the flow of millions of dollars in ancient Buddhist artifacts that looters dig up in the country's northwest and smuggle to collectors around the world. The black market trade in
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Thinking through Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012
ATLANTA - My week has been a little slow in terms of posted reports, as I'm sure you're well aware. The reason for my lack of quantifiable work has been my efforts at independent study. Of legends. And heroes. Cross-
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Yungang Grottoes
Luoyang :: China | 9 months ago
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The construction of the caves was started under the auspices of the noted monk Tan Yao in 453 during the Northern Wei Dynasty and took 50 years to complete. Some 40,000 people, including Buddhists from what is present-day Sri Lanka, contributed to
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At 105, a Zen master blends East with a bit of L.A. to help guide his Western students
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 9 months ago
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Several times he began to draw his teachings to a close, explaining to his students that he was tired and in poor health...Eventually, he raised a small fist in the air. "Everybody is together at one point," he said. "We cry together, we love
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Technology Replicates Ancient Chinese Temple
Shanghai :: China | 9 months ago
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The serene ambience has a close likeness to that of the famed Chinese Xiangtangshan templemostly because the exhibit has digital reconstructions of the artwork's original settings. The exhibition, Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of
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Warrior Monks: The Untold Story of Buddhist Violence
Salem :: India | 10 months ago
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The basic plank of Islamophobia can be summed up as follows: Islam is uniquely violent compared to other world religions. Of course, it's just not true. In previous articles, I've taken a Thor-sized hammer to shatter this myth by proving that
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All wars produce orphans and lust for revenge
Peshawar :: Pakistan | 10 months ago
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Two thousand and five hundred years after this, Siddhartha drew his mother's sketch on the floor of an Iraqi orphanage and slept on her arm...See this, Jassim Taqwi put a picture on the table as Rashid Khan pulled hookah at the Springfield Shisha Bar
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Rohingya and Rakhine are Brothers
Akyab :: Myanmar | 10 months ago
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I was grown up playing in the monastery's surroundings, I had a lot Buddhist friends who thought of me as their own brother. When we were young we did not know any difference because we shared the same place, we had many similarities, and we did not
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Tourists sentenced to jail for kissing a Buddha statue
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 10 months ago
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A groundbreaking discovery has been made by an American archaeologist who spotted what looks like two new pyramid sites in Egypt, with one site viewed on satellite being three times the size of Great Pyramid at Giza...Kodikara) Three French tourists
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