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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...temple has collected 180,700 contributions from people who want to exchange part of their newfound wealth for spiritual sustenance. "Our society is in need of religion," says Cao Pingjiang, the director of the gold-Buddha project. "People are searching for something besides money to worship, and Buddhism has a long history in China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Renewed Faith | 4/24/2006 | See Source »

...allowing students to experience South Korea through a variety of extracurricular activities, such as visiting Seoul’s National Museum, which displays “historic relics from the country’s rich past,” and staying in a temple to learn about Zen Buddhism, Kim wrote. She added that students will also get to experience Korean popular culture. “Seoul is the birthplace of ‘Hallyu’ or the Korean Wave, which is a new alternative popular culture that has spread through Asia with great force in the 21st century...

Author: By Yingqiuqi chelsea Lei, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summer Program Opens in Korea | 2/14/2006 | See Source »

...white; porcelain lips quiver. When two Buddhist monks enter the room, they are drawn to the pieces like moths to a flame, which is hardly surprising. If Tasmania's Les Blakebrough is the father of Australian pottery, then Ipswich, Queensland-based Hanssen Pigott, who practices a form of Buddhism, is its mother superior. "If there was any investment of her spirituality in her work," says Jason Smith, curator of the National Gallery of Victoria's current retrospective, "it would be that calmness, and the hope that people would find that in her work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Huge Storms in Little Cups | 1/30/2006 | See Source »

...basically to celebrate and showcase all the different religious holidays happening in this year, because normally the only ones recognized are Christmas and Hanukkah,” Lala said. Wednesday’s celebration featured the holidays of seven different religions—Christianity, Judaism, the Bahai faith, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism—and the African American festival, Kwanzaa. Students manned booths decked with cultural displays and delicacies, ranging from ethnic specialties to Krispy Kreme donuts. Students came out despite the cold and spoke enthusiastically about the event. “I think this was a great idea...

Author: By Dina Guzovsky, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Holidays Unite Various Faiths | 12/16/2005 | See Source »

...Like A Prayer,” Madonna got “Into The Groove” with (unauthorized) inspiration from Catholicism, complete with rosary and a communion-ready white dress. A decade later, on the critically-acclaimed “Ray of Light,” she boogied to Buddhism. In 2003, she changed her musical inspiration to Kabbalah, the study of Jewish mysticism, on “American Life.” Now, on “Confessions On A Dance Floor,” 48-year-old Madge brings another, deeper religion to the forefront: Disco...

Author: By Christopher C. Baker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Confessions on a Dance Floor | 12/1/2005 | See Source »

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