by James Morgan, Science reporter, BBC News. Archaeologists digging at Buddha’s birthplace have uncovered remains of the “earliest ever Buddhist shrine”. They unearthed a 6th Century BC timber structure buried within the Maya Devi Temple at Lumbini in Nepal. The shrine appears to have housed a tree. This links to the Buddha nativity story – his… Read More »
I was kindly invited by the compassionate Vietnamese community to attend the statue dedication ceremony of the Quan Am statue at the Chua Tam Bao Vietnamese Temple in Tulsa,OK on June 9, 2013. The statue of Quan Am ( Kuan Yin-Chinese, Kannon-Japenese, Chenrezig-Tibetan, Avalokitasvara-Sanskrit ) at Chua Tam Bao stands 49 ft high and sits… Read More »
NEW DELHI: The Gilgit Lotus Sutra Manuscripts, discovered by cattle grazers in Gilgit in a Buddhist stupa in 1931, are set to be released in a facsimile edition in New Delhi on Thursday. The rare manuscripts, housed with the National Archives of India, date back to 5th-6th century AD and are perhaps the only body… Read More »
On April 16, 2013, Karolin (Shown here with her daughter Julie), the young wife of Gongjue Tuji Rinpoche of the Xuanfa Dharmazentrum (Dharma Center) in Cologne, Germany was diagnosed with a rare and very dangerous form of thyroid cancer that can very rapidly metastasize throughout the body and is often fatal. The decision to operate… Read More »
Buddhists gather on Pickering Beach, Delaware to conduct a Horseshoe Crab Rescue and Blessing Dharma Assembly. Every year hundreds of thousands of horseshoe crabs die from being stranded up-side-down on the beaches of the Delaware Bay and along the Atlantic coast from Maine to Florida as they come ashore to spawn, unable to return to… Read More »
Someone recently asked on “YAHOO! ANSWERS” a question concerning who the Buddha is of the current era and just who is H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III? I was too late to post a response and could not have done an adequate job with only 300 characters anyhow. I did provide a link to this article as a… Read More »
The Dharma Lineage of Master Xu Yun Suffered the Loss of a Great Pillar According to the news acquired by takungpao.com on January 16 (by Reporter Shi Liwei), recently, the news about the Chinese Elder Monk Yi Zhao entering parinirvana spread indirectly from Taiwan to mainland and Hong Kong. After seeking confirmations from multiple sources,… Read More »
112th Congress Second Session Senate Resolution #614: Mr. MENENDEZ (for himself and Ms. SNOWE) submitted the following resolution in the Senate of the United States on December 12, 2012; which was considered and agreed to, Celebrating the World Peace Corps Mission and the World Peace Prize: Whereas the World Peace Corps Mission is an international… Read More »
A “Grand World Peace Dharma Assembly” was held on November 11, 2012, at the AsiaWorld–Expo Hall, Hong Kong International Airport, Lantau, Hong Kong by the International Buddhism Sangha Association. The assembly was sponsored by the United International Buddhism Headquarters. In the traditions of Buddhism, there is a day of festival for celebrating Shakyamuni Buddha’s… Read More »
The Xuanfa Five Vidyas University is being established as a Buddhist distant learning institution to enable students to gain prajna (transcendental wisdom) and develop their bodhichitta (all encompassing compassion). This mission is to be accomplished by deepening the student’s appreciation and understanding of the precious dharma brought to this world by Shakyamuni Buddha and his teacher,… Read More »