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WASHINGTON — A complete Tibetan Buddhist shrine room, including a silver Buddha, gem-encrusted adornments and silk scroll paintings, goes on display for the first time in Washington on Saturday.

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...The West Covina Buddhist Temple is offering a lecture series called "Buddhism and Christianity" by Baptist Missionary Dickson Yagi at 7 p.m. Tuesday [March 16].

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UTICA — A Buddhist temple finally received permission this week to erect a religious statue on its North Utica property.

The city’s Zoning Board of Appeals at its Tuesday meeting granted an area variance to the Dau Trang Minh Dang Quang Temple on Riverside Drive, putting an end to an issue that has been the subject of much debate in recent months.

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With about $200,000 in donated labor from volunteers, many of them "just walking in the door, wanting to help," a three-story, $1.6 million Buddhist meditation center is nearing completion and will open for classes the first week of June.

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A book setting out the principles of a pared-down Buddhism has won praise from arch-atheist Christopher Hitchens

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Sierra Friends of Tibet and Tibetech.org announces a rare visit by the present abbot of Gaden Shartse Norling University, exiled in India.

Khen Rinpoche Jangchup Choeden was appointed abbot by His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet in 2009.

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With about $200,000 in donated labor from volunteers, many of them "just walking in the door, wanting to help," a three-story, $1.6 million Buddhist meditation center is nearing completion and will open for classes the first week of June.

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This Tuesday: Meditation Service, 6-7pm. Please bring a zafu/meditation cushion.

Advanced Sutra Study, 7-8pm. Text: Nagarjurna, “Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way.”

Location: Eye of the Buddha, corner of Park and El Cajon Blvd., Hillcrest.

"The Art and Science of Mindfulness: Integrating Mindfulness into Psychology and the Helping Professions" by Susan Shapiro and Linda Carlson. American Psychological Association, 2009.

The integration and incorporation of mindfulness training into the mainstream of mental health may well turn out to be one of the most significant developments of the last ten or fifteen years. The literature has expanded exponentially and has moved in quite substantial ways from the use of Buddhist insights and techniques to a regular adjunct of CBT and especially DBT.

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Like the man himself, Gary Snyder's poems speak with the keenness of a knife blade and the knottiness of a Zen riddle.

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After serving as governor from 1975 to 1983 and losing a race for U.S. Senate, Brown traveled to Japan to study Zen Buddhism.

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The Diamond Way Buddhist Group (DWBG) of UW-Milwaukee has invited two speakers to provide students and fellow Milwaukeeans with an opportunity to discover what Buddhism has to offer today’s society.

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LILBURN, Ga. -- The Lilburn neighborhood that fought a proposed Islamic mosque says they have a new fight, an illegal Buddhist temple.

They say a house is illegally being used as a place of worship. Lilburn has ordinances for religious buildings. Neighbors said service has been held at the house three times a week for the past two weeks. They also said the house has been remodeled and a parking lot added.

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In what may have been the first ceremony of its kind in the Toledo area, two local Zen Buddhist teachers were ordained as priests and 17 of their students professed Buddhist vows in a Jukai service Sunday at Lourdes College.

The teachers, Jay "Rinsen" Weik and his wife, Karen "Do'on" Weik, were ordained by Sensei Melissa "Myozen" Blacker of Worchester, Mass.

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BRATTLEBORO -- Lama Glenn Mullin, whose more than 30 widely-respected translations of Tibetan Buddhist texts and commentaries have earned him wide respect in Buddhist and academic circles, will visit Brattleboro for four days in mid-March to present talks about his work in Mongolia and to provide insights on some of the Tibetan Buddhist texts he has worked with for years.

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PHOENIX — Arizona prosecutors plan to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case of a Thai-born teenager's confession to nine killings in 1991 at a Buddhist temple near Phoenix, an official told The Associated Press on Thursday.

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Arjia Rinpoche, director of the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center in Bloomington, Ind., is one of the most important religious leaders to escape Tibet since the Dalai Lama. He will share his inspiring story in Knoxville at 6 p.m. March 25 at Carpe Librum Booksellers; 3:30 p.m. March 26, at UT's University Center, rooms 223 and 224; and 7:30 p.m. March 26 at a community forum at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church.

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A free screening of the 2005 documentary “Angry Monk: Reflections on Tibet” is set for 6:30 p.m. March 22 at Arizona State University’s West campus.

The screening, presented by the Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance Club at the West campus and Phoenix-based No Festival Required Independent Cinema, also features guest speaker Dogo Barry Graham, a Zen teacher.

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Jon Waterman to give talk and lead meditation retreat March 5-6; Buddhist gathering set for March 14.

The Insight Meditation Community of Lewes will present Unconditional Presence, with returning meditation teacher Jon Waterman as a public Dharma talk and a Saturday meditation retreat Friday and Saturday, March 5-6, at St. Peter’s Episcopal parish hall and the Biden Center, respectively.

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Footage of a lush, idyllic landscape from the Indian-Nepal border region quickly morphs into hand-drawn animation of a woman dreaming of a white elephant, with a lotus flower on its tusk, entering the side of her body.

And so unfolds The Buddha, as an ethereal violin theme floats over the meditative drone of a sitar.

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The Buddhist Peace Fellowship and the Tallahassee Buddhist Community is holding an event to raise money for Haiti from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, March 5 at the Tallahassee Buddhist Community Center, 647 McDonnell Drive, in Railroad Square. Members will be offering free soup and bread during First Friday Gallery Hop, and they will be inviting the public to donate to the Red Cross. There also will be free chair massage by local massage therapy students.

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SOMERSET — Buddhist Monk Kelsang Dorje, the resident teacher at Serlingpa Meditation Center, will give a free talk based on the book “Transform Your Life,” at the Somerset Public Library.

The program will be held on Saturday, March 13, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at the library, 1464 County St. Everyone is welcome. No pre-registration necessary. Refreshments will be served after the talk. For more information, contact the Serlingpa Meditation Center, 508-979-8277 or call the library at 508-646-2829.

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Cheryl Ann Costa is and has been many things - an airman, submarine sailor, coast-to-coast talk radio host, television show co-host, playwright, author, filmmaker, coven priest, co-owner of a fabric shop and an engineer at a major Fortune 500 company.

She was also, at one time, a man.

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Buddhism classes in English at Hsi Fang Temple through April 2010

Hsi Fang Buddhist Temple, San Diego Buddhist Association Buddha's Light International Association (Humanistic Buddhism)

Sumi Loundon Kim will present "Blue Jean Buddha" at 11 a.m. Thursday in Clara Thompson Hall at Drury University.

The event is free and open to the public. Later, Kim will lead an informal class called Meditation 101 from 1:30-2:30 p.m. in the Hoblit Suite of Freeman Hall.

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I recently renewed a correspondence with an Orthodox rabbi who had been present when Rabbi Akiva Tatz and I spoke at the Jewish Learning Exchange in London back in 2007. The rabbi let me know that Letters to a Buddhist Jew, which Rabbi Tatz and I co-authored, is seen in the Orthodox world as the triumph of Orthodox Judaism over Buddhism.

This does not surprise me, but it does disappoint me. It does so because it shows a critical weakness in the Orthodox approach to dialogue with other traditions -- or, more important, to Jews drawn to those other traditions.

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Enso is the Zen circle of pure `emptiness', which both as symbol and action, exemplifies the freedom that meditation practice opens in us: to live fully, presently and awake. The retreat is surrounded by three peaks, bordered by a meandering stream and enclosed within a horse ranch contained by a natural setting that provides a balanced support for deep practice.

Enso gives space to retreat in mountain tranquility with a `chop wood, carry water' engaging environment of garden, horses and nature. We offer a daily schedule of zazen meditation combined with engaged work and inner study. Enso Retreat Center will also be hosting and offering to the community access to a comprehensive library that covers the range of the universal perennial philosophy and literature as well as Buddhist philosophy.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Democrat Jerry Brown officially entered the California governor's race Tuesday, giving the party an iconic candidate in a contest expected to be the most costly in state history.

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Camden — Barbara Fleming, local author and Dzogchen lineage student of Lama Kunzang Tenzin, will present a new book based on her experiences as a novice Buddhist Tuesday, March 11 at 6:30 p.m. at the downtown Camden Public Library."

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