Word: buddhists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...presence of suspected JI operatives in southern Thailand. Acting on the scoop, the official dispatched field agents to the porous southern border town of Sungai Kolok to check assertions that four JI members had fled through Malaysia and into southern Thailand, a Muslim stronghold in a predominantly Buddhist country. He didn't expect the agents to find much. But when they combed through embarkation cards of individuals who had passed through immigration in Sungai Kolok, agents turned up the name of Mas Selamat Kastari, an alleged JI operations chief in Singapore and the suspected mastermind behind a foiled plan...
...Suddenly, two pickup trucks carrying men with shaved heads and religious robes pulled up to the bridge and implored the cars to stop so they could pay their respects to Suu Kyi. They looked like Buddhist monks, but area residents told TIME these men were actually convicts plucked from a prison in nearby Mandalay. As some of Suu Kyi's aides alighted to speak with the "monks," several truckloads of men from the Union Solidarity and Development Association, a military-backed civilian group, turned up wearing white armbands and blocked the motorcade front and back while other thugs spilled...
Novice monks spread freshly washed clothes out onto the cobblestone courtyard. Arthritic, bead-clutching Buddhist nuns shuffle around the Rumtek Dharma Chakra Centre, accumulating merit with every leisurely lap. If it weren't for the guards on the rooftop, toting antique Enfield rifles, the 273-year-old Rumtek Monastery would be a vision of calm...
...allows him to make the long trip to Rumtek, the controversy will doubtless continue. Some say the conflict is more about control of the monastery's surfeit of treasures than of spirituality. Until the ascension dispute is decided, the guards will keep watch over Rumtek's opulent bounty of Buddhist artifacts, which includes not only heaps of jewels and gold but also the heart, eyes and tongue of the 16th Karmapa...
During his stay in the Boston area, the Dalai Lama will attend a two-day conference at MIT concerning the connections between Buddhist meditation and modern science and will bless a temple in Medford...