Word: buddhism
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...barricades and bales of rusted barbed wire that police used to seal off Shwedagon are stacked on the pavement. Police and soldiers armed with automatic weapons sit on stools outside the mostly silent monasteries. More are stationed at the entrance of the hilltop temple, the spiritual center of Burmese Buddhism. As many as a thousand monks lived and studied at these small monasteries in the shadow of Shwedagon. But troops now far outnumber the handful of monks that are still seen at Shwedagon and the downtown Sule pagoda, another focal point of the pro-democracy protests...
...from British colonial days through the democracy rallies in 1988. But this time, the monks are not simply adding their moral authority to the movement; they are leading the protests. The shift is significant, particularly for a junta that has tried to burnish its influence by linking itself to Buddhism. Burma's government-run newspapers regularly display generals lavishing money on building new pagodas and monasteries. "The junta has bent over backwards to show how good Buddhists they are," says Josef Silverstein, a Burma expert at Rutgers University in New Jersey. "For them to legitimize a crackdown, they will have...
...still practice Buddhism? If so, how has it helped you? -Maike Lehmann KÖNIGSFELD, GERMANYI have been chanting for 24 years. It has brought me a lot of strength and wisdom in the sense that even in the most dire times, I didn't get lost. I knew that if I wanted to survive, it wasn't about healing or trying to forget. It was about how I could use my life to answer what had happened to us. In many ways, it saved my life...
Clayton says he hopes to expand his own discussion of science and religion past the Christian tradition as well—to Judaism and Buddhism and possibly to Islam...
...natural features, buildings or even furniture can have positive or negative effects on qi, or life energy. And that applies to airports as much as anything else. "An airport is like the front door to a country," explains Lin Yun, a Chinese-born Grandmaster of Black Sect Tantric Buddhism who founded his own Yun Lin Temple in Berkeley, California. "The proper flow of qi, and designs that bring heaven and earth closer, can affect the nation's entire well-being and economy." (Airports are especially critical for Thailand, given that tourism accounts...