Word: buddhists
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...speech was was the largest event featuring a Buddhist speaker ever to take place at Memorial Church, with the line to get in stretching from the main doors of the church all the way to Matthews Hall as early as half-an-hour before the scheduled beginning of the speech...
Thich Nhat Hanh—a 75-year old Vietnamese monk, world-renowned peace crusader, author and Zen Buddhist master—was invited as part of the church’s Faith and Life Forum to address issues in Buddhist-Christian dialogue, political engagement through religion and the Buddha’s teachings of mindfulness...
...Buddhist teachings rely on “mindfulness” as a means of finding energy for compassion, a central tenet of the religion...
...personally know of anyone more worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize than this gentle Buddhist monk from Vietnam,” King wrote in a letter to the Nobel Institute. “His ideas for peace, if applied, would build a monument to ecumenism, to world brotherhood, to humanity...
...Thich Nhat Hanh established the Unified Buddhist Church, which serves as an umbrella for monasteries and practice centers worldwide...