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Tensions in northern Tibet have increased to ‘critical’ levels following the beating to death of two elderly Tibetans by Chinese police after a government crackdown on a monastery where a young Tibetan monk had set himself on fire.
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Responding to the U.S. State Department’s Annual Report on International Religious Freedom, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says "religious freedom is under threat."
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A macabre collection of well over 1,500 fetuses have now been discovered in two raids this week at the morgue of a Thai Buddhist temple in an outlying district of Bangkok.
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Would you like to get rich? For two consecutive years, Udumbara thought to bring good fortune blossomed in a clothes drying rack in China. The legendary tiny flower was also found sprouting in such places like Los Angeles, Australia and Korea.
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The capital city of Thailand has seen its fair share of difficult situations over the years, from colonization to child sex trade workers. Today Bangkok faces another struggle -- 300 000 stray dogs roam the streets of the nation's capital.
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Osel Hita Torres, 24, the boy that the Dalai Lama has hand-picked as a reincarnation of a spiritual leader has turned his back on the Buddhist order.
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Matani Shakya, 3, of Nepal is the newest living goddess. The toddler was approved by priests and President Ram Baran Yadav in a centuries-old tradition on Tuesday.
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While all the forms of Christianity make up the largest single religion only 1/3 of the world's population is Christian. Believe it or not the third largest grouping of the world's population are secular.
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The Pacific Buddhist Academy is graduating its first crop of seniors this Friday.
Located in Honolulu, the Academy is the only Buddhist prep school in the country.
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Buddhist monks, who are bound by faith to nonviolence, are grappling with how to rid a temple of a severe ant infestation without killing the insects.
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A rare Buddhist manuscript, discovered by cattle grazers in 1931, is set to be released in a book form in India on Thursday.
Vietnam is sending six Buddhist monks to re-establish abandoned temples on islands that are the subject of a bitter territorial dispute with China.
Sri Lanka's government orders the removal of a mosque from an area it says is sacred to the country's majority Buddhists.
A senior Chinese official orders tighter security in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and main roads following deadly protests in Sichuan.
The leader of South Korea's biggest Buddhist order apologises after monks were filmed apparently gambling illegally.
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