Tag: Buddhism
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Buddhism bonus
As part of its soft power projection, the government is working to a strategy which invokes Buddhism, sometimes referred to as the country’s most significant export.
September 20, 2021 -
Bengal and Japan ~ I
Swami Vivekanandas first-hand reports about Japan through his letters, lectures, etc. had only one message for the young students of India Look East, go to Japan and learn from them about the development strategy of the Meiji Government and how they implemented their plans.
July 9, 2021 -
1,000-yr-old Buddhist statues restored in China
During the restoration in 1982, one clay statue was found to have a human-like abdomen, with the viscera made of silk, said Wang Tingqi, deputy director of the Shandong provincial bureau of culture and tourism.
May 13, 2021 -
Indic voice
An Indian representative, for perhaps the first time from a global platform, queried this selectivity in a sober, historically accurate and effective manner.
December 5, 2020 -
Chinese built dam to submerge engraved heritage rocks of Buddhism in Gilgit Baltistan
A resident of the area, Araib Ali Baig, wrote, “The art of rock carving is present in all regions of Gilgit Baltistan, mainly in the districts of Diamir, Hunza and Nagar and Baltistan”. “Speaking specifically of Baltistan, these engravings can be seen on former settlements and popular old routes along the Indus and Shyok”.
May 18, 2020 -
Nitish Kumar’s warm welcome to Dalai Lama as he visits Patna
The Dalai Lama thereafter offered prayers before a ''Bodhi tree'' at the chief minister's 1, Anney Marg bungalow along with other Buddhist priests.
January 17, 2020 -
Past Lives & Future~I
The three-dimensional Life Book is an important and effective instrument whereby the souls can revisit their past lives or plan their future lives by considering various alternatives and options. The proposed future life or lived past life is often created or recreated out of extant atmospheric energy particles with varying alternatives before taking a final call.
January 16, 2020 -
Buddhism more of a science of mind than religious faith: Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama said that even Buddha himself asserted his followers to accept his teaching only after performing thorough investigation and experiment as opposed to just following it out faith alone.
September 12, 2019 -
Dalai Lama lauds India for upholding freedom of religion
He was according teachings on Gyalsey Thokme Sangpos’s Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva (laklen sodunma) in the morning for Tibetan youth at the main Tibetan temple on Monday.
June 3, 2019 -
Integrate religious teaching for transformation: Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama said, Religion is not about building temples; these are part of religious practice, but most important is to control and discipline your mind.
December 5, 2018 -
Tibetans accuse China of trying to control Buddhism
In view of which these so-called legal trainings appears to be just another move to control Tibetan Buddhism, he added.
November 29, 2018 -
Up and Away
There was a time I travelled often. I still travel, but off and on. Earlier, I travelled regularly, frequently, and far and wide. Aircrafts felt like taxis and airports were very nearly home. I saw wonderful things: the placid Periyar lake in India’s Kerala, the glorious sunset on St Mark’s square in Venice, the old...
September 10, 2018 -
Dalai Lama lauds Nalanda priests for logical Buddhist teachings
Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Monday praised the seventeen pandits (priests) of Nalanda for their logical way of teaching Buddhism and said he himself is one of their biggest admirers. “The only complete and detailed explanation of the ancient Nalanda teaching has persevered in the Tibetan language which is the reason that the Chinese...
September 4, 2018 -
The Karmapa Controversy
In a recent statement from New York, the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje (OTD), regarded as the most influential Tibetan Buddhist leader after the Dalai Lama, conveyed to the Government of India that he is unhappy over “restraints” on his travel and monitoring of his activities at all times by intelligence agencies. He also declared...
September 1, 2018 -
Flogged by cow vigilantes, Dalits embrace Buddhism
The family infamously flogged by cow vigilantes for skinning a dead bovine in 2016 today led nearly 300 Dalits who embraced Buddhism under heavy police security. Two boys of the Saravaiya family, who had earlier announced their intention to convert to Buddhism to escape caste discrimination as Hindus, were waylaid by the accused last week...
April 29, 2018 -
PM Narendra Modi greets nation on Buddha Purnima
In his monthly radio programme, Mann Ki Baat, PM Modi said that Buddha Purnima is a special day for every Indian. We must be proud of the fact that India is the birthplace of Lord Buddha
April 29, 2018 -
Una’s flogged Dalit family to embrace Buddhism
Following in the footsteps of the Constitution’s author Dr BR Ambedkar, survivors of the infamous bashing of a Dalit family by cow vigilantes in Una would embrace Buddhism to escape caste oppression under Hinduism. Four members of a Dalit family in Una of Gir Somnath district were beaten mercilessly and paraded half-naked through the streets...
March 19, 2018