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    Solidarity, Bhikkhu! Paid Member

    Harmony with the universe has got to be worth time and a half.More »
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    Will the Bamiyan Buddhas Rise Again? Paid Member

    Residents of Bamiyan are hopeful that the famous Buddhas of their town, destroyed by the Taliban in March of 2001, can be rebuilt. More »
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    Dalai Dolly Folly Paid Member

    A German dollmaker unveils an adolescent germanic Dalai Lama doll.More »
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    Temple Attacked by Vandals Paid Member

    A British Buddhist community loses its center to unexplained arson.More »
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    Guitarist Sings Praises of Eastern Medicine Paid Member

    After collapsing onstage four years ago, singer-songwriter Alejandro Escovedo is back in the recording studio. Showing true dana-paramita, several musicians, including Steve Earle, John Cale, and Lucinda Williams, compiled “Por Vida,” a tribute album, in 2004, to help Escovedo pay his mounting medical bills for treatment of hepatitis C. Deeply touched, but still ailing, Escovado turned to Buddhism as a way to make peace with his suffering. Finally, he visited an acupuncturist who informed him that his prescribed medicine was eating away at his bone marrow.More »
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    In The News Paid Member

    The Pope: Part II In the Winter 1994 issue,“Tricycle”reported on the response of the Catholic Church to the rise of Buddhism in Italy. That article, based in part on “Why So Many Religions?” - an advance chapter of Pope Paul II’s new book,“Crossing the Threshold of Hope”(Knopf) - represented the Pope’s views regarding non-Christian religions as being in alignment with those of the Second Vatican Council of 1962�66 - in other words, moderate. Since that time,“Crossing the… More »