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...Buddhism and science don’t agree, we have to follow science.” This institutional willingness to be corrected is refreshing to many, including Myhrum, who spent the summer after her first year of college studying and meditating at a monastery through a Fo Guang Shan program. “I like that Buddhism is not completely in contradiction with modern science,” says Myhrum, who camped out to get a Dalai Lama ticket. She remembers enjoying the solid educational grounding that came from the scientific backgrounds and postsecondary degrees that many of the monks...
...meditation and dinner (yes, the bark in the soup is edible—and healing to boot), held on the second and fourth Fridays of the month at 6:30 p.m. (suggested donation $5). The GBBCC is actually a Buddhist temple in the Chinese tradition of Fo Guang Shan, which Yifa, the Center’s director and resident nun, calls “co-humanistic Buddhism”—i.e. Buddhism that is “engaged with society” and emphasizes “this life, this world, this time, these people...
...travel group is scheduled to visit cities, small villages and tribal markets in the Shan Hills. The trip will end in a 10-day voyage on the Upper Irawaddy river, where the travellers will see monasteries and markets, according to the itinerary...
...brutal in its persecution of ethnic minorities; needing land and labor, the SPDC has forcibly displaced members of these minority groups from their homes and compelled them to work without pay on construction projects or as porters for the army. Human rights groups such as Amnesty International and the Shan Women’s Action Network have revealed that the SPDC uses systematic rape as a weapon of war against insurgent ethnic minority groups. The SPDC continues its dictatorial hold over Burma, denying recognition of the results of the 1990 elections and refusing to hold any elections since...
...Died. Deng Liujin, 91, Chinese communist and one of the few women who completed the Long March; in Beijing. Deng stayed close to the Party after serving as a stretcher-bearer during the communist rebels' 1930s escape from Nationalist forces. Her husband, Zeng Shan, served as Minister of Internal Affairs in 1960, and their son, Zeng Qinghong, is currently China's Vice President...