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...golf to rougher contact sports-except with a better sartorial sense. Certainly, the saffron and burgundy robes, the serene statuary, all paint an exotic picture that brings to mind harmless, crystal-wearing Californians rather than religious fanatics. Our image of a clash of civilizations does not include renegade Buddhist monks. Nevertheless, we should be every bit as worried about the protest marches in Bangkok as those in other countries with different faiths, because the Thai call to prayer is being driven by the same worrying trends: nationalism and communalism...
...Thailand, famous worldwide for its golden Buddhist temples, is also home to millions of Muslims, most of whom live in the country's south. A religious-based insurgency there has claimed more than 2,000 lives since 2004, with some rebels calling for a separate Islamic homeland. Since Thailand's military coup last September, the violence has only gotten worse, even though the junta leader, General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, is himself a Muslim. With many of the killings involving Muslims targeting Buddhists (although plenty of Muslims have been murdered as well), it's not surprising that sentiment in usually tolerant Thailand...
...REVIVAL $39 million Cost of restoring the Buddhist Tianning Pagoda in Changzhou, China, which local officials say is the world's tallest 300 million Number of Chinese who practice a religion, according to a survey by Shanghai's East China Normal University
...misconception is that it doesn’t exist,” she says. “It’s like when people ask you where you go to school—it just takes too much explanation.”Born in Minnesota and the daughter of Buddhist converts, Howard says that her academic interest originated from a desire to read ancient Buddhist texts in its original Sanskrit. At Harvard, she learned Tibetan instead and now works in India translating Tibetan to English. In Chicago, Sara M. Berliner ’98 began her college career at Harvard...
...cast singing with bad ’80s hair, the plot darts around to introduce us to six men and the women in their lives. Then we watch as they all drive by Long Island landmarks to a beach house owned by Spooner (Chris Bowers), the hot Buddhist astrophysicist of the bunch. “Sing Now” is most engaging when it develops the friends’ personal stories. There’s the maybe-gay starving actor, the high-strung boring one with the loudmouth wife (played by the irritating Molly Shannon of “Saturday...