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The Bengali Buddhist Renaissance in the Pālā Dynasty
03 May 2024 12:01 GMT
… Second Diffusion of Buddhist teachings in Tibet.
A prolific Buddhist thinker, Atīśa compiled … .
Dipankar Srijnan, Barua. 2017. Buddhism and the Buddhists of Bangladesh. Chittagong: Renu …
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Thailand: Politician Suspended After Husband Catches Her in Bed with Adopted Son, a Buddhist Monk
02 May 2024 23:05 GMT
… adopted son Phra Maha, a Buddhist monk.
The scandal has … Southeast Asia, especially in China, where developments in the … typical Chinese social media user quoted by the South China Morning … hiding.” Not only are Buddhist monks supposed to remain celibate …
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The Third Age Dawns in China: The Huangtian Jiao
02 May 2024 17:41 GMT
… nod to the old Buddhist notion of endlessly repeating … as their many borrowings from Buddhism, Taoism, and folk religion … Piaogao’s ministry in Beijing coincided exactly with the … Volumes: An Introduction to Chinese Sectarian Scriptures from the Sixteenth …
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Biden calls Quad partners Japan, India ‘xenophobic’, unwelcoming to immigrants, comparing them with rivals China, Russia
02 May 2024 16:04 GMT
… , think about it. Why is China stalling so badly economically? Why … naturalisation for Hindus, Parsees, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Christians who fled …
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A Tibetan Lama in the Land of the Dragon
02 May 2024 08:06 GMT
… his country by a Chinese warlord in 1910, returned … ’ (non-sectarian) traditions of Tibetan Buddhism; his biographer says: “At … threatened to decimate the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, in a unique … particularly the fact that Beijing is trying to force …
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Loss of local Chinese paper leaves community reeling
30 Apr 2024 20:01 GMT
… many residents of Seattle’s Chinatown-International District (CID).
… , anyone from anywhere in China could read the newspaper. … newspapers in Chinese include one sponsored by a Buddhist association … about China, it’s hard to read consistently.
Another Chinese- …
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The Third Age Dawns in China: Zhaijiao and Hongyang
30 Apr 2024 19:38 GMT
… Hebei), not too far from Beijing. There, Piaogao suddenly “ … transmit the three teachings [of Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism]. … and powerful, along with Buddhist monks and Taoist priests, … Volumes: An Introduction to Chinese Sectarian Scriptures from the …
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Lotteries to Cowshed Cafés: How China’s Small Coffee Shops Survive
30 Apr 2024 15:28 GMT
… accounts for 3,579. Shanghai, with 8,970 cafés … opened cafés within traditional Buddhist or Taoist temples. … Chinese medicine into its special coffee blends.
“After living in Beijing … the current competitive Chinese coffee market.
“China’s coffee market …
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Thailand temple sign targets Chinese tourists specifically to maintain cleanliness, riles some
30 Apr 2024 12:27 GMT
… originated from a tourist from China who recently visited Thailand.
The … the toilet door of a Buddhist temple.
The sign served as … inadvertently appeared to discriminate against Chinese tourists.
Those who were riled … they were outside of China.
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China murder fugitive snared after 23 years on the run, lives secret double life as monk in temple, has wife, 2 children
30 Apr 2024 10:04 GMT
… as a monk in a Buddhist temple.
Police investigators also discovered … .
He also studied at a Buddhist college and began living in … run again – this time to Tibet – but was caught before he … live an ascetic life because China’s Buddhist precepts do not allow …