Cedar Mill, Oregon, USA -- At age 24, Domyo Burk was neurotic and miserable. She had just graduated from Reed College with a degree in biology, and she had lived a fairly fortunate life. But she was neurotic and miserable, without any apparent reason.
By MASAKI HASHIDA. Asahi Shimbun, January 05, 2014
Tokyo, Japan -- Five women gathered in a condominium in Tokyo’s Kagurazaka district on a recent Friday night to share their worldly problems with Yuken Kikuchi, a female priest of the Jodo Shu (Pure Land) sect of Buddhism.
London, UK -- An Irishman, Laurence Carroll has a strong claim to be the first Westerner to become a Buddhist monk, and became famous in Burma in the early 20th Century for denouncing the spread of Christianity there.
by Madeleine Bunting, The Guardian, 14 October 2013
The monk Akong Rinpoche, who was murdered in China last week, fought to preserve an entire cultural tradition
London, UK -- Buddhism's popularity over the past half-century in the west has surprised and dismayed in almost equal measure. Alongside the fad for Buddhist statues in garden centres, there has been a much more serious engagement with hundreds of centres opening, many of the most dynamic founded by Tibetan Buddhists.
October 14, 1956 is the 57th anniversary of a historic event that took place in India when Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar converted to Buddhism
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar converted to Buddhism along with about 380,000 of his followers on October 14, 1956 at Deekshabhoomi which is situated in Nagpur, Maharashtra. Ven. Dr. Hammalawa Saddhatissa Maha Thera, a reputed monk from Sri Lanka, presided over this historic function.
Akong Rinpoche cremation ceremony planned in Tibet
