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Buddhist nun shares art of eating mindfully

by G. Jeffrey MacDonald
August 24, 2018

(RNS) — In her book, Thubten Chodron teaches the Five Contemplations, which are aimed at fostering mindful eating. They're short verses designed to inspire reflections.

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Police probe sexual misconduct claims against Chinese monk

by Emily McFarlan Miller
August 23, 2018

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese police have opened an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against one of the country's best-known Buddhist monks whose case has highlighted the growth of the #MeToo movement in China.

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An atheist philosopher leaves the door open to religion's power

by Yonat Shimron
August 1, 2018

CHICAGO (RNS) — Asma argues that religion is an emotional survival toolbox that resides in the limbic brain, headquarters of human emotions as true as love, or grief or fear.

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Why the rescued Thai soccer boys are considering becoming monks

by Andrew Alan Johnson
July 17, 2018

(The Conversation) — In Theravada Buddhist practice, ordination as a monk and donating the merit thus gained is one of the greatest honors that a person can give to another.

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Hindus in India are converting to Buddhism to protest treatment of lower castes

by Jason Overdorf
May 3, 2018

NEW DELHI, India (RNS) — Though it is illegal in India to discriminate on the basis of caste, the nearly 3,000-year-old social stratification system — while not as determinant in the life of many Indians as it used to be — still holds sway.

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Myanmar Rohingya hatred has roots in Buddhist nationalism

by Yonat Shimron
September 29, 2017

BANGKOK (AP) — The prejudice and hostility that Rohingya Muslims face stretches back to an often virulent form of Buddhist nationalism that has seen a resurgence since the end of military rule in Myanmar.

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A Buddhist prayer festival fills a remote Tibetan village with color

by Alexandra Radu
July 20, 2017

(RNS) — Every year, between the sixth and seventh months of the lunar calendar, nomad tribes gather in the tiny Tibetan village of Ser Geyrgo for a prayer festival that is meant to invoke heaven.

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A Dalit community looks to escape the caste system by converting to Buddhism

by Yonat Shimron
May 11, 2017

AHMEDABAD, India (RNS) More than 300 conversions took place across the state of Gujarat during an October ceremony — the direct response to a surge of caste-based violence.

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Chinese robot monk blends science and Buddhism

by RNS staff
April 21, 2016

BEIJING — Xian'er can hold a conversation by answering about 20 simple questions about Buddhism and daily life.

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'Post-traumatic church syndrome'? Yep, it's a thing

by jonathan merritt
August 25, 2015

(RNS) Reba Riley, a "former Evangelical Poster Child," describes her struggle to heal from wounds inflicted by institutional Christianity in a millennial memoir of spiritual exploration.

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Post-traumatic church syndrome? Yep, it's a thing.

by jonathan merritt
August 24, 2015

In her hilarious and raw memoir, "Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome," Reba Riley describes her struggle to heal from wounds inflicted by institutional Christianity. Here she talks about healing.

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Former Buddhist monk creates home for 85 abandoned children

by Kimberly Winston
August 17, 2015

(RNS) A new HBO documentary tells the story of Lobsang Phuntsok, who gave up being a Buddhist teacher in the U.S to start a remote orphanage.

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At 80, the Dalai Lama is just getting started

by Lauren Markoe
July 9, 2015

(RNS) The Dalai Lama's work may increasingly engage him with people and events far removed from centers of Buddhist thought.

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We’re meditating all wrong, says 'Buddha from Brooklyn'

by Jay Michaelson
June 4, 2015

(RNS) Westerners are missing the point of meditation, according to one of the first American teachers of meditation, Brooklyn-born Lama Surya Das. He explains in his new book, "Make Me One With Everything."

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It's up to Dalai Lama whether he'll be reborn, Buddhist leader says

by Reuters
April 16, 2015

BEIJING (Reuters) The Karmapa is close to the Dalai Lama and after him is the most eminent Lama to have fled Chinese rule of Tibet, which Communist forces "peacefully liberated" in 1950.

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