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The appeal of Buddhism
Contributing WriterEditor’s note: This is the last article in an 11-part series on Buddhism. Buddhism does not appeal to everybody, but it does appeal to some. Why? Here are a few of the reasons. In 1982, I participated, along with 59 other “students," in...Tags: Biology, Christianity, Separation of Church and State, Conservation, Roman Catholicism
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Buddhism and the supernatural
Contributing WriterEditor’s note: This is the 10th part of an 11-part series on Buddhism. It is sometimes said that Buddhism is devoid of anything supernatural, including a divinity. Such a claim is, perhaps, overly simple. As is so often the case in speaking of any...Tags: Separation of Church and State, Animals, Plastic Art, Religion and Belief, Japan
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Buddhism in America
Contributing WriterEditor’s note: This is the ninth of an 11-part series on Buddhism. Today, America is home to practitioners of all three of Buddhism’s major groups (Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana). While Buddhism remains strong in Southeast Asia, it...Tags: Christianity, Peace Corps, Separation of Church and State, Colleges and Universities, Immigration
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Vajrayana Buddhism
Editor’s note: This is the eighth of an 11-part series on Buddhism. Vajrayana, the religion of the Dalai Lama, is the third major group within Buddhism (after Theravada and Mahayana). It arose when Tantric Buddhism from India reached Tibet and...
Tags: Dalai Lama, Plastic Art, Religion and Belief
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Pure Land Buddhism
Contributing WriterEditor’s note: This is the seventh of an 11-part series on Buddhism. Philosophical Hinduism was based on the Upanishads, divinely revealed philosophical writings (shruti), which only men of the upper three classes were permitted to read. Later...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Philosophy, Separation of Church and State, Plastic Art, Hinduism
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Zen Buddhism
Contributing WriterEditor’s note: This is the sixth of an 11-part series on Buddhism. When Buddhism spread beyond India to East Asia, Mahayana Buddhism’s philosophical schools gradually gave way to more practical schools, which better suited pragmatic Chinese,...Tags: Education, Human Interest, Students, Teaching and Learning, China
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The second Buddha
Contributing WriterEditor’s note: This is the fifth of an 11-part series on Buddhism. Just as the West had a scholastic period during which theologians argued about how many angels could dance on the head of a pin, so Buddhism had a scholastic period in which...Tags: Philosophy, Religion and Belief
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Buddhism splinters
Contributing WriterEditor’s note: This is the fourth of an 11-part series on Buddhism. When its founder dies, a religion tends to splinter, partly because would-be successors become rivals for leadership and power and partly because the founder’s...Tags: Human Interest, Separation of Church and State, Plastic Art, Religion and Belief
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The Buddha's practice
Contributing WriterEditor’s note: This is the second of an 11-part series on Buddhism. To what reality, to what understanding did the Buddha awaken under the tree? His first attempt to articulate his new insights occurred on the outskirts of the city of Varanasi...Tags: Ethics, Values, Aspirin (drug), Religion and Belief
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Surprising support for separating church and state
Guest columnistIt’s been a good month for the much-maligned, often-misunderstood principle of church-state separation. A whopping 67 percent of the American people agree that the First Amendment “requires a clear separation of church and state,”...Tags: Sudan, Civil Unrest, Religious Conflicts, Politics, Constitutional Issues
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Haynes: Surprising support for separating church and state
It’s been a good month for the much-maligned, often misunderstood principle of church-state separation.
A whopping 67 percent of the American people agree that the First Amendment “requires a clear separation of church and state,”...Tags: Sudan, Civil Unrest, Politics, Religious Conflicts, Constitutional Issues
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Boat capsizes off Myanmar; dozens missing and feared dead
NEW DELHI – A boat carrying approximately 100 Rohingya Muslims capsized late Monday off the coast of Myanmar with many of its occupants feared dead, UN officials said, as the region braced for a cyclone expected to slam low-lying areas inhabited...
Tags: Kaman Corporation, Politics, Burma, United Nations, Human Rights
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