Ladakh Buddhist Monastery Values Discipline

Tweet"An 11th century Indian Buddhist monastery values its traditional discipline in Ladakh. "Lukhil Monastery has maintained its ancient practices of Buddhist culture to the present day. The ancient rituals of the three basic "Pratimoksha" (Patimokkha) or, personal liberation disciplines, which are...

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Quake Rocks Buddhist Offices In Los Angeles

Tweet The 8.8 earthquake that hit Chile was 500 times more powerful than the one that hit Haiti. Now the series of temblors rattling the world have gotten serious, rocking the campus offices of Wisdom Quarterly. At 4:04 am an exponentially weaker 4.4 quake rattled L.A. It was weaker but, like Haiti,...

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Magical Tools

Tweet For thousands of years, the indigenous people of North America have maintained a very close relationship with the plant kingdom. They use many herbs for healing, protection and blessings, but their four most sacred herbs for purification and protection are sweetgrass, sage, cedar, and tobacco....

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News The Buddha Made A Christian Saint

Tweet The Bodhisat (Josaphat) is a saint in both the Catholic and Greek Orthodox Church.The Buddha is a saint in the Catholic as well as Orthodox Church. This may sound like a joke or sacrilege, but such is the tendency of particularly Catholicism. It aggregates to itself adherents and greater legitimacy...

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China 1459 Year Old Buddha Gets Facelift

TweetCHINA'S 1,459-YEAR-OLD BUDDHA GETS $10.8M FACELIFTBEIJING -- China's oldest Buddhist statue, which is on the brink of collapse, is about to get a $10.8 million facelift, a state news agency reported Monday. The 1,459-year-old Meng Mountain Buddha in northern Taiyuan city will be repaired and restored...

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