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Buddhism and Social Justice – call for papers
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Via Reverend Danny Fisher… This via Buddhist Studies at Leiden University… A NWO-funded Research Project Call for Papers A Conference on Buddhism and Social Justice 23-25 April 2014, Leiden University Moving away from a common perception of Buddhism as intrinsically a tradition of peace and justice, our project—based at Leiden University—seeks to explore the various ways... Read more »
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Glenn Mullin at Lumbini 2013
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Here’s a short video from Glenn Mullin about Lumbini, with pix of all the temples and gardens. The site is much more well-developed than it was even 25 years ago, in part because the United Nations was pressing the international community to take its designation as a World Heritage Site more to heart. There’s a... Read more »
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Ingress and Buddhist Temple geo-tagging
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I recently joined a global community of videogamers playing Ingress, a massively multi-player online Android game made for Google+ by Niantic Labs. The game involves discovering, visiting and claiming portals in the public sphere all over the world. One of the two teams is known as “The Enlightened” (which is part of what drew my... Read more »
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Canadian High Commission in India’s statement on bombing of pilgrimage sites in India
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Via http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/india-inde/highlights-faits/2013/2013-07-10-statement-declaration.aspx?lang=en July 10, 2013 | No. 201307-03 Andrew Bennett, Canada’s Ambassador for Religious Freedom, and Jim Nickel, Acting High Commissioner for Canada to India, today issued the following statement condemning Sunday’s bombing of the Bodh Gaya pilgrimage site in Bihar, India: “Canada is shocked at this wanton act of terrorist violence against one of Buddhism’s... Read more »
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Canadian media response to Bodhgaya bombings
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No stories on the Bodhgaya bombings in the National Post, Vancouver Sun, Winnipeg Free Press, Calgary Herald, Montreal Gazette. Only wire feeds on the Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, CBC and CTV sites, and those are one or two stories at most. At first I was shocked. So I checked and found no articles at... Read more »
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