Powerful Buddhist monks have been piling pressure on Muslim politicians.
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How, many wonder, could a Buddhist society — especially Buddhist monks!
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The Tamil Tigers responded by massacring dozens of Buddhist monks.
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Buddhist monks had just led riots that killed several Muslims.
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Buddhist monks performed religious rites to invoke blessings on Mr. Wickremesinghe.
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All but one were recently ordained (albeit temporarily) as Buddhist monks.
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Scientists had Buddhist monks meditate while being scanned by an MRI machine.
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THE RULES governing what and when Thailand's Buddhist monks eat are strict.
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Already there is an ugly and significant movement of extremist Buddhist monks.
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They were cut from the living rock by Buddhist monks and devotees.
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Those serene Buddhist monks who spent tens of thousands of hours in meditation?
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Many of the instigators, as in Myanmar, also happen to be Buddhist monks.
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In January, two Buddhist monks were shot dead in a suspected insurgent attack.
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The canvas sneakers were loved by Buddhist monks, martial artists, and students alike.
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The only "Buddhists" were Buddhist monks and the only "Taoists" were Taoist priests.
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Images of immolating Buddhist monks were mass distributed in the '60s, for example.
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The law of this country is no different to Buddhist monks or ordinary people.
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Some Zen masters require new Buddhist monks to train in isolation for five years.
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Government soldiers preyed upon them; revered Buddhist monks openly called them insects and snakes.
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It is customary for Buddhist monks in China to adopt the family name Shi.
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The van's door slid open and passengers climbed out: seven Buddhist monks from China.
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Young Buddhist monks attend class at a temple school in Luang Prabang, Laos, on Dec.
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Rebels have targeted anyone associated with the Thai state, sometimes killing teachers and Buddhist monks.
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The tattoos are inked by Buddhist monks using sharpened bamboo sticks or long metal needles.
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Buddhist monks and nuns attend a prayer service in Seoul, wishing for a successful summit.
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Then we talk to Waypoint about what Buddhist monks in Thailand think about video games.
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The marriage ceremony itself was in the traditional Thai style, presided over by Buddhist monks.
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This papier-mâché mummy, built with hog casing, evokes the embalmed remains of Buddhist monks.
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Yantra tattoos are typical hand-etched by Buddhist monks and special ruesi practitioners, requiring meticulous skill.
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"You've seen those studies about the miraculous benefits of meditation for Buddhist monks, right?" he says.
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But out of respect, "even Buddhist monks eat animal products when it is offered," she adds.
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One hundred thirty Buddhist monks have set themselves on fire to protest oppression by their government.
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Regular participants fondly talk about years gone by with Buddhist monks and alphorns in the tiltyard.
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The remains were blessed by Thailand's Supreme Patriarch, the head of the order of Buddhist monks.
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Buddhist monks are highly respected in Thailand and taking action against them was historically considered taboo.
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It is located at a height of over 4,000 meters and is home to 100 Buddhist monks.
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Local Christian groups have said they faced increasing intimidation from some extremist Buddhist monks in recent years.
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Touring the mountain outpost Luang Prabang, Obama fell easily into conversation with Buddhist monks and coconut saleswomen.
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Buddhist monks and leaders of other faiths also attended, but few from other strands of British Islam.
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He sat beside his wife Bun Rany and pressed his hands together while Buddhist monks chanted prayers.
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He also said that South Korea should Christianize itself by incarcerating all Buddhist monks on an island.
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To Muslim groups it spread a separate message that nationalist Buddhist monks were organizing anti-Muslim protests.
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Senior Buddhist monks blessed their passing ranks as they marched before tens of thousands of cheering spectators.
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I felt the way I did when I read about Buddhist monks walking barefoot on hot coals.
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Coach Ekapol Chantawong trained with Buddhist monks for a decade after his family was killed by a disease.
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Saffron-clad Buddhist monks chanted as the horoscope for the king's reign was cast on a golden plaque.
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Origami has been transforming ever since Buddhist monks carried paper from China to Japan in the 6th century.
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The Wild Boars arrived in white robes, which they gave up for the saffron robes of Buddhist monks.
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He brought in Buddhist monks to bless the cast and crew, and a cellist to play during rehearsals.
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" They were interested in helping me "spiritually evolve," she said, comparing them to "the equivalent of Buddhist monks.
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He also said Wickremesinghe's ministers alienated Buddhist monks by having them arrested for keeping unlicensed captive elephants at temples.
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Buddhist monks chanted prayers beside his coffin on Saturday as Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn came to pay her respects.
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Cambodians pray before Buddhist monks during the first day of the Pchum Ben festival in Phnom Penh on Sept.
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She met with family members of the deceased, offering condolences, and prayed with Buddhist monks at a local temple.
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In Tibetan regions of China, Buddhist monks and nuns have set themselves on fire in protest against Chinese policies.
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He regularly flew in Buddhist monks from his native Thailand to bless the field at the King Power Stadium.
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Hundreds of Burmese, including Buddhist monks, took to the streets of Yangon, Myanmar's commercial capital, to protest the article.
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In today's 360 video, join Buddhist monks in Thailand as they travel through villages by boat, asking for food.
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Buddhist monks are meant to avoid any food that involves killing, though they may eat meat received as alms.
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Buddhist monks have made much of that trend in their rhetoric, portraying their faith to be under existential threat.
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At the same time, it flooded Muslim groups with messages warning nationalist Buddhist monks were about to launch violent protests.
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The lavish five-day event, which runs until Sunday, opened with rows of Buddhist monks in orange robes chanting prayers.
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In the days after the death, they attended funeral rites at the temple, where Buddhist monks chanted and incense burned.
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Pattern of genocide In Myanmar, extremist Buddhist monks have been preaching that the Rohingya are reincarnated from snakes and insects.
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All religious texts can be victims of "textjacking," from Muslim terrorists to Hindu nationalists to violent Buddhist monks in Myanmar.
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On day ten, we arrive in Tengboche, a settlement known for its colorful monastery inhabited by about 30 buddhist monks.
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Some influential Buddhist monks said the Rohingya were the reincarnation of snakes and insects and should be exterminated, like vermin.
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He and the Dalai Lama are often mentioned together as the two most influential Buddhist monks of the modern era.
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Hard-line Buddhist monks targeted churches and mosques, priests and imams, often with the tacit support of the security services.
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A pair of Buddhist monks taught me that it's essential to make your gathering decisively end rather than peter out.
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He learned how nomadic herders use different parts of the yak for various purposes, and discussed death with Buddhist monks.
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Both had recently ended relationships with other people and were contentedly single, preparing to ordain as Soto Zen Buddhist monks.
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" After 80 Buddhist monks chanted, the king proclaimed himself the Royal Patron of Buddhism: "I will rightfully protect Buddhism forever.
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Buddhist monks attend a ceremony at the Angkor Wat temple to pray for peace and stability in Cambodia on Dec. 2.
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In Asia, Buddhist monks have been in the front line of bloody inter-communal conflicts, as propagandists or even as participants.
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People and Buddhist monks protest the arrival of a Malaysian NGO's aid ship carrying food and emergency supplies for Rohingya Muslims.
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In Burma [now Myanmar] I saw a bunch of Buddhist monks in their orange outfits and followed them into the mountains.
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Han Tun and three other veteran natkadaws claim that, starting about ten years ago, Buddhist monks began to target nat-worshippers.
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The dramatic increase in self-immolations by Tibetan Buddhist monks is perhaps the most visible sign of Tibet's increasingly hopeless plight.
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Hindu and Buddhist monks wear orange robes, and in Hinduism, orange represents fire and therefore purity; impurities are burned in fire.
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" A dramatic rise in fuel prices in 2007 triggers anti-government protests led by Buddhist monks – the so-called "Saffron Revolution.
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The letter was also laced through with phrases used by Buddhist monks to explain the spiritual roots of the protest tactic.
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The boys will eventually spend time as novice Buddhist monks to honor the dead diver's memory, their coach said on Wednesday.
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Even Tibetan buddhist monks targeted by the Chinese government joke that they've learned to "detach from attachments" after years of attacks.
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I hiked more and started meditating with these Buddhist monks stationed out in a farmhouse in a rural patch north of Bridgeport.
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The Buddhist funeral ceremony, mixed with Hindu rituals, was attended by 119 Buddhist monks who chanted prayers in the ancient Pali language.
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Weeping relatives attended a memorial service for the missing held near the vessel, where Catholic, Protestant pastors and Buddhist monks offered prayers.
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The New York Times reported a "peaceful and almost festive" atmosphere, with Buddhist monks, mothers with their children, young couples, and students.
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Muslims only make up around 5% of the population but some Buddhist monks preach they pose an existential threat to the country.
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Over the weekend, hundreds of people, including Buddhist monks, marched in Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar, in support of the military.
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There's a reason Buddhist monks meditate on charnel grounds, and why Cicero said the contemplation of death was the beginning of philosophy.
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Underlining the controversy surrounding the aid for the Rohingya, several dozen Buddhist monks and nationalists demonstrated outside the port terminal on Thursday.
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Scot Baughman, a witness who intervened, likened the scene to the Buddhist monks who set themselves on fire to protest the Vietnam War.
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Known as the Saffron Revolution, the uprising included long processions of Buddhist monks taking to the streets in defiance of the military junta.
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In Myanmar, I watched a Buddhist government and its functionaries beat and murder Buddhist monks, the personification of their faith and national identity.
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A nationalist movement led by Buddhist monks is critical of Suu Kyi and casts the military as protector of the Buddhist-majority nation.
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Seven hundred and seventy Buddhist monks led a religious ceremony today honoring the king of Thailand's accession to the throne 26 years ago.
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"It is important that we remember today," Mr. Obama told an audience of 1,075, including a scattering of Buddhist monks in saffron robes.
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Two hundred yards away, Buddhist monks in orange robes bless the helicopter of the team's Thai owner, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, before he takes off.
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But some pieces of disinformation — like false accounts of Buddhist monks being attacked — spread on social media and were perceived as especially dangerous.
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Saffron- and scarlet-robed Buddhist monks from a nearby monastery handed out bottled water to mourners who gathered under a baking afternoon sun.
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The thousands of activists gathered outside the court represented countless advocacy groups, from labor and human rights organizations to feminists and Buddhist monks.
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Tun Nyunt, a spokesman at the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture, said anyone breaking the law should face action, including Buddhist monks.
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Buddhist monks in Japan are using Twitter as it was intended—to protest the police and share fun videos that we can all enjoy.
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Buddhist monks are regularly seen protesting against the minority group and recently protested against the arrival of a ship filled with aid from Malaysia.
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The Rohingya have suffered systematic murder, rape and forced exile by the Myanmar military and widespread prejudice and occasional violence by nationalist Buddhist monks.
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At the time in Burma (now Myanmar), it was uncommon for everyday people to meditate, an activity typically reserved for Buddhist monks and nuns.
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Behind the veneer of the Tiger Temple, a zoo run by Buddhist monks, was a business profiting from the illegal trade in tiger parts.
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Zen Buddhist monks ate wagashi to symbolize the ephemeral nature of all things, and the nutritious snack conveniently fit in with their vegetarian diet.
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In Thailand, Buddhist monks have been victims and protagonists in a conflict that has raged in three southern provinces where the population is mainly Muslim.
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Even Buddhist monks have been accused of inciting violence against the Rohingya there and led a boycott movement against them during deadly clashes in 2012.
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Self-immolations of Tibetan Buddhist monks continue, according to the report, which also notes US concerns for Falun Gong practitioners and the Muslim Uighur community.
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In memory of the navy diver, Ake said the boys would spend time as novice Buddhist monks -- a practice considered a high honor in Thailand.
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The independent Burma Human Rights Network said that persecution was backed by the government, elements among the country's Buddhist monks, and ultra-nationalist civilian groups.
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Beijing (CNN)One of China's highest-ranking Buddhist monks has denied explosive allegations of sexual misconduct, which accusers claim left at least one victim suicidal.
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He holds mindfulness workshops with Buddhist monks from a group that has been staying at one of his San Francisco mansions for the last year.
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The Chinese discovered papermaking around A.D. 100 and shortly thereafter, Buddhist monks began bringing the material to Japan, where it was transformed into origami flowers.
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On Thursday, celebrations in the capital of Bangkok were underway, with a grand ceremony involving 770 men being ordained as Buddhist monks outside the Grand Palace.
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He has published hundreds of scientific papers about the impact of emotion on the brain and did some of the first MRIs of meditating Buddhist monks.
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Years ago on a visit to Thailand, I was surprised to learn that Buddhist monks often contemplate the photos of corpses in various stages of decay.
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Buddhist monks from Thailand and abroad chanted prayers as King Maha Vajiralongkorn lit candles during the ceremony at the throne hall at Bangkok&aposs Grand Palace.
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Traditionally, many Thai men are ordained as Buddhist monks once they came of age - a practice thought to bring blessings and honor to Thai Buddhist families.
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After his death, officials and Kandy residents said, extremist Buddhist monks who have incited communal violence in the past descended on the area, offering their condolences.
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As he spoke, dozens of Buddhist monks chanted nearby at a temple in the complex where the Dalai Lama lives in the hill town of Dharamshala.
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President Kennedy was particularly angered by a stream of front-page articles by Mr. Halberstam graphically describing battlefield defeats and the self-immolations of Buddhist monks.
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For Sing Me a Song, director Thomas Balmès carefully and patiently chronicles how the country's new connectedness changes how young Buddhist monks live in their monastery.
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Mr. Paley Ellison and Mr. Campbell, who goes by Chodo, are Zen Buddhist monks and the founders of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care.
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It helps connect the efforts of radical Buddhist monks in Myanmar, who now have much more potent tools for spreading incitement to ethnic cleansing—fueling the fastest-
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Cut to a seemingly serene shot of a group of saffron-robed Buddhist monks pacing about in a waterfront park—each engaged with his own cell phone.
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Like certain Buddhist monks, like Thomas Merton and the Trappists, like Kramer on Season 9 of "Seinfeld," Mr. McConaughey seems to be reaching for enlightenment through quietude.
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Through March 20 Beginning in the fourth century, Buddhist monks began to dig caves into the rocky soil around the Crescent Lake in what is now northwestern China.
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On the Tibetan Plateau of China, Buddhist monks help monitor snow leopard numbers with automated cameras and use the images to encourage their followers to protect the cats.
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The two men professed to have little interest in the baubles of materialism, and they joked that they would cash out of Tessr to become wandering Buddhist monks.
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High amplitude patterns of something called "gamma synchrony," which corresponds to a better control of interaction between neurons, have been observed in Buddhist monks during periods of meditation.
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As the widow of the diver who died during the operation to save them watched, 11 Thai soccer players and their coach were ordained Wednesday as Buddhist monks.
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Phra Phrom Dilok, 72, a member of the Sangha Supreme Council, which governs Buddhist monks in Thailand, was also arrested over alleged embezzlement of temple funds, police said.
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I'll never enjoy the sounds of Buddhist monks chanting from an iPhone connected to a Bluetooth speaker, or having a circle buddy's dusty feet shoved in my face.
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Outspoken to an extreme, she shocked many at the time when she trained her sights on protesting Buddhist monks who had been self-immolating to protest Diem&aposs crackdown.
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Buddhist monks wait to take part in the wedding ceremony of Bhutan King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck and Queen Jetsun Pema at Punakha Dzong in Punakha, Bhutan, on Oct.
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At Tuol Tumpoung pagoda in the capital Phnom Penh, hundreds of people crowded the temple complex to offer food and money to Buddhist monks to the backdrop of chanting.
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CALI's helicopters flew for 86 hours in March and April of 2015 over 1,910 square kilometers, or 737 square miles, with Buddhist monks blessing the lidar sensors before takeoff.
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The Shaolin Temple, said to be the home of Asian martial arts in central China, was ransacked during the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76 and its Buddhist monks jailed.
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"Buddhist monks will say that they would never condone violence," said Mikael Gravers, an anthropologist at Aarhus University in Denmark who has studied the intersection of Buddhism and nationalism.
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Beijing (CNN)One of China's former highest-ranking Buddhist monks sexually harassed nuns, China's top religious regulator said Thursday, just weeks after he strongly denied the accusations against him.
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Explosive allegations Xuecheng, who has taken a vow of celibacy like most Buddhist monks, released a brief statement denying all allegations when the scandal first emerged in early August.
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BANGKOK — In Myanmar, loudspeakers broadcast advice from Buddhist monks: Seven ground peppercorns, exactly seven, placed on the tongue will ward off the coronavirus spreading across Asia and the world.
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The investigations' "focus was to put those who fought the war, the former navy commander, intelligence officials and me in prison," he said in a speech to Buddhist monks.
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Blessed by Buddhist monks, Mr. Rajapaksa affirmed his support for their dream of a Buddhist-first Sri Lanka and chided minorities who failed his "expectations" by voting against him.
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This year, the organization recorded 26 such incidents, including one in which Buddhist monks allegedly attempted to disrupt a Sunday worship service, with the last one reported on March 25.
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This year, the NCEASL recorded 26 such incidents, including one in which Buddhist monks allegedly attempted to disrupt a Sunday worship service, with the last one reported on March 25.
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Angry Sinhalese mobs, urged on by Buddhist monks, began attacking mosques and businesses owned by Muslims, hurling rocks, burning tyres and setting fires, leading to at least two more deaths.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - One of China's highest-ranking Buddhist monks quit as the head of the country's Buddhist association on Wednesday after facing a government investigation over accusations of sexual misconduct.
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Some influential Buddhist monks, the Sri Lankan Bar Association, and allies of Rajapaksa, the brother of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, say the grant would be detrimental to the island nation.
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Hardline Buddhist monks enjoyed impunity during Mahinda Rajapaksa's government, antagonizing minorities who voted overwhelmingly against him in 2015, said Hilmy Ahamed, vice president of the Muslim Council of Sri Lanka.
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That model of plenitude seems ever more apt in Thailand, where the waistlines of the country's Buddhist monks have expanded so much that health officials have issued a nationwide warning.
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Next to Ganesha, a small statue of Buddha rested, a testament to Mr. Vichai's faith: He had often invited Buddhist monks to come to Leicester to bless the team's field.
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It is estimated that more than 100 people have perished as thousands have tried to flee from Myanmar to escape the tyranny of the Burmese army and the Buddhist monks.
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Before the campaign meeting, he went to temples to seek the blessings of Buddhist monks, who hold large sway over voters in the Buddhist-majority island nation of 22 million.
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The ceremonial crushing of the 359 tusks began with two minutes of silence, after which the group of Buddhist monks chanted prayers for a "rebirth without suffering" for the elephants killed.
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When Than Shwe ordered a crackdown on anti-junta protests led by Buddhist monks in 2007, known as the Saffron Revolution, Myint Swe was the head of special operations in Yangon.
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Now Yastrzhembsky is trying to cause a stir with his "Ivory - A Crime Story", which names and shames top ivory buyers such as China, the Vatican and Buddhist monks in Thailand.
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Bangkok's city hall will host a mass alms-offering on Friday for more than 600 Buddhist monks attended by junta chief Prayuth Chan-ocha at a public square in the city.
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"They are a clear attack on religious freedom, putting Buddhist monks and laypeople at risk of arbitrary arrest and other punishments simply for the peaceful practice of their beliefs," it said.
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Men sporting shaved heads and robes who impersonate Buddhist monks and aggressively panhandle for donations are once again proliferating in New York City and countries around the world, the authorities said.
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His failure to publicly distance himself from radical Buddhist monks makes him a figure of suspicion in the minority Muslim community, as well as among some in the small Christian community.
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That trend is visible everywhere from the Buddhist monks cheering ethnic cleansing in Myanmar to the Hindu majoritarians who dominate Indian politics to the violent Muslim extremists in the Middle East.
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Two of the most notoriously chauvinist groups, led by right-wing Buddhist monks and blamed for stoking repeated sectarian riots, have declared that they will dissolve themselves, their job apparently done.
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LaConte hopes his work may one day allow us to train our brains to work better, in the same way meditation has been shown to rewire the neural networks of Buddhist monks.
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I knew she was kind and generous — cooking for everyone from friends and family to Buddhist monks to the homeless and hungry community of Halifax — but tough when she needed to be.
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A hardline group of Buddhist monks, previously known as Ma Ba Tha, said it welcomed the pope's visit but warned, without elaborating, of "a response" if he spoke openly about the Rohingya.
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With Mr. Xi's backing, Youming, who like most Buddhist monks preferred to go by one name, rebuilt the city's Linji Temple, the birthplace of one of the best-known schools of Buddhism.
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They say pervasive surveillance and displays of military force are being used to intimidate and quell dissent, which has included Tibetan Buddhist monks self-immolating in protest at lack of religious freedom.
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Military personnel as well as nationalistic Buddhist monks and laypeople had long been spreading anti-Rohingya rumors on Facebook, including fake news about the rape of a Buddhist woman by a Muslim man.
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Benioff, who preaches the virtues of mindfulness and seeks guidance from Buddhist monks, was left with plenty of time to meditate while enjoying some of the world's most glorious beaches with his family.
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Thousands of people packed the stands of the stadium, with Buddhist monks, Hindus, Christian nuns and Muslim men with beards and caps listening to religious leaders who took turns to appeal for friendship.
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A mosque official said the attacks were triggered when several people, including some Buddhist monks, demanded a search of the main building after soldiers had inspected a 105-acre (43-hectare) lake nearby.
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Over 600 pounds of lobsters are now scuttling peacefully on the ocean floor of eastern Canada rather than wallowing in butter and garlic, thanks to the efforts of a group of Buddhist monks.
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Daily religious rites are taking place in the hall, where the king's body lies in state, and senior members of the royal family have taken turns attending daily, amid chanting by Buddhist monks.
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Han Tun, a 65-year-old spirit medium or natkadaw, was at Taung Pyone festival three years ago when ten Buddhist monks wielding metal rods disrupted a spirit-possession ceremony he was attending.
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At the Kingsbury Hotel in Colombo where one of the bombs went off last Sunday, Buddhist monks, some as young as 10 and senior clergy, performed rituals in a tribute to the victims.
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Three weeks after the world watched them emerge from a flooded cave complex, all but one of the Thai boys known as the Wild Boars began a ceremony to become novice Buddhist monks.
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Today, I had the honor of talking about a piece we just published: Robert Rath's In Thailand, Buddhist Monks Grapple With the Meaning of Video Games, for VICE's Guide to Right Now podcast.
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In the opening scene, Buddhist monks lifted back their orange sleeves to construct an intricate mandala from colored sand by nudging into place one microscopic grain at a time, a process that took weeks.
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There is also strong support among the country's Buddhist majority for anti-Rohingya actions and angry anti-Muslim rhetoric has increasingly become part of mainstream discourse in Myanmar, led by ultra-nationalist Buddhist monks.
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This allegory of self-annihilation points to the practice of self-immolation by Buddhist monks during the Vietnam War and, before that, the death by burning of heretics, witches, sexual deviants, and cross-dressers.
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Lange embraces the surreal throughout his work, capturing still-lifes of fruit next to fruit-sized animals, Buddhist monks suspended in virtual reality, and yoga moms firmly sitting on the surface of the ocean.
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Around 40 opposition members, joined by Buddhist monks, gathered at a memorial in the capital to mark an attack on opposition supporters that killed at least 16 people and left hundreds wounded in 1997.
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Phra Mahapaivan Worravanno, a Buddhist monk and writer from Wat Soi Thong in Bangkok, said that by becoming novice Buddhist monks, the boys accumulate merit or good karma that they can transfer to others.
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YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's most prominent group of nationalist Buddhist monks on Monday condemned sedition charges against one of its leading members, Wirathu, ahead of a hearing in the fugitive monk's case expected on Tuesday.
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But last year, she went with the goal of educating herself on Korean Buddhist temple cuisine, reaching out to the Korea Agro-Trade Center to ask if they could help connect her with Buddhist monks.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Buddhist monks on Friday chanted prayers over the remains of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej at the riverside Grand Palace in Bangkok, ahead of a traditional royal cremation that will need months to prepare.
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Dr. Richard J. Davidson, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, combines the centuries-old expertise of Buddhist monks with far more recent brain imaging techniques in an effort to quantify the psychological benefits of meditation.
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Celebrations were expected to include merit-making ceremonies at Buddhist temples across Thailand and a mass alms-giving event for more than 600 Buddhist monks at a public square in the capital, Bangkok, on Friday.
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Until the case is resolved, the fate of the tigers is mired in a legal standoff that pits wildlife officials, conservationists and Thailand's military government against a wealthy tourist enterprise backed by influential Buddhist monks.
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Mae Sai, Thailand (CNN)For the Buddhist monks who keep nightly vigil outside the cave where 12 young boys and their soccer coach remain trapped, the dry weather is a sign their prayers are working.
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Public-facing accounts of verified government and military leaders — as well as the extremely influential accounts of nationalistic Buddhist monks — included false and inflammatory posts about the Rohingya, the New York Times reported in October.
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"No country can alone address the many challenges facing mankind; no country can afford to retreat into self-isolation," Xi told the delegates, among them Buddhist monks, Olympic medallists, farmers and at least one astronaut.
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The collection also includes military-style garments, such as trench coats and bomber jackets, that have been turned into draped, off-the-shoulder styles reminiscent of Buddhist monks' robes — an allusion to the Vietnam War.
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That backlash has focused on one man in particular - Muhammad Hizbullah, a businessman and politician who was the governor of Sri Lanka's Eastern Province until he resigned in June following protests by hardline Buddhist monks.
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Many Buddhist monks drive to visit parishioners, and such a law not only targets them but is too ambiguous for comfort, a monk at the Jodo Shinshu temple in Kagawa prefecture wrote in a blog post.
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"The Muslim community is seriously alarmed about the re-emergence of the racist campaign that was carried out by extremist Buddhist monks since the end of the war in 2009," the MCSL said in a statement.
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MANDALAY, Myanmar (Reuters) - Thousands of Buddhist monks gathered in Myanmar's second largest city on Sunday for an event partly organized by a scandal-hit Thai temple whose abbot is wanted for questioning on money-laundering allegations.
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Last year, Sinhalese throngs, spurred on by incendiary rhetoric from extremist Buddhist monks, carried out deadly attacks on Muslims near the city of Kandy, the latest in a series of anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka.
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Though Sri Lanka has been mostly spared the religious-driven bloodshed of other South Asian nations, such as India and Pakistan, in recent years some Buddhist monks have become militant and incited followers to attack Muslims.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Under growing pressure from Thailand's military government, and their own religious bodies, Buddhist monks have launched a fresh round of reforms in recent weeks to clean up temples and overhaul a religion stalked by scandal.
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Joji Uematsu, the vice president of Dining Innovation USA, the restaurant's American management company, explained that udon, which are said to have been created by Buddhist monks 230 years ago, are more versatile than ramen or soba.
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Police stood guard at the court and surrounding area in the South Asian country's Buddhist heartland, 105 km (65 miles) north of the capital Colombo, where Buddhist monks and other local residents had sought Shafi's continued detention.
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In a counterfactual digression, Herzog imagines that a mass exodus from Earth has taken place, and then he spots "some stragglers," a group of orange-robed Buddhist monks ambling about, many of them looking at their phones.
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His friendship with Dr. King had begun a year earlier, when he wrote to explain why Buddhist monks and a nun — his friends and colleagues — had set themselves on fire in South Vietnam to protest the war.
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The quest to find the reborn Lama Dorje leads Tibetan Buddhist monks to a sweet young boy (Alex Wiesendanger), whose parents (Chris Isaak and Bridget Fonda) are understandably wary about handing him over to a higher fate.
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The square outside the temple has seen a number of anti-China demonstrations by Buddhist monks over the years, protesting what they say are consistent attempts by the Chinese government to suppress Tibetan culture and religious freedom.
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He thought about the "Five Remembrances" that some Buddhist monks chant each day: I will lose my youth, my health, my loved ones, everything I hold dear and, finally, life itself by the very nature of being human.
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Supporters of the practice have relied on very small samples of unrepresentative subjects, like isolated Buddhist monks who spend hours meditating every day, or on studies that generally were not randomized and did not include placebo control groups.
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Dr. Vincent Pedre, a Manhattan internist and the author of the book "Happy Gut," described his conversations with Mr. Bouley (about subjects like sourdough bread, Japanese mushrooms and the rice eaten by Buddhist monks) as unexpectedly eye-opening.
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" However, he says there have been no negative remarks about the Pope's trip, even from extremist Buddhist monks, who "are in favor of receiving" him, but "he has to be very careful about what terms he will use.
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The boys embark on a course of study this month to become novice Buddhist monks, in honor of Samarn Kunan, a volunteer diver and former Thai navy SEAL who lost his life during the mission to rescue them.
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In Myanmar, where a campaign of ethnic cleansing has forced an exodus of most of the country's Muslims, Buddhist monks still warn of an Islamic invasion, even though less than 5 percent of the national population is Muslim.
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The vast mound of the stupa gleamed white, as did the shirts of Mr Rajapaksa's supporters, setting off the crimson of the processional carpet and of the robes of shaven-headed Buddhist monks thronging to bestow their blessing.
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Intellectually, I've always understood why Buddhist monks sweep the ground beneath their feet before they walk on it, moving the tiny creatures that might be blithely existing there out of the way—respecting everything equally is a nice idea.
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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Shops owned by Muslim traders in the Sri Lankan central highlands district of Kandy will remain closed on Sunday as thousands of hardline Buddhist monks gather to decide who to back in the country's upcoming presidential elections.
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Some ultranationalist Buddhist monks who are part of a group called the Patriotic Association of Myanmar have fueled the hatred against the Rohingya, prompting the government to bar the monks from preaching, though their message has spread via Facebook.
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The first historic image captured by the bureau came a year later, on June 11, 1963, when Browne, the bureau chief, left the office to cover a protest by Buddhist monks against the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem.
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Some Buddhist monks were among the hundreds of people who walked through broken temple structures on cracked earth littered with dead fish last week to pay respects to a headless 7003-metre (13-feet) -tall Buddha statue, adorning it with flowers.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis will meet Myanmar's top Buddhist monks, its military generals and civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in November when he visits that country and Bangladesh, both caught up in a crisis over the Rohingya Muslim minority.
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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's government said on Wednesday a decision on agreeing a $480 million infrastructure grant from the United States, which has been criticized by some lawyers, Buddhist monks and opposition politicians, would be put off until after a Nov.
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YANGON (Reuters) - Around 100 Buddhist monks and nationalists in Myanmar staged a protest against Thailand on Friday, denouncing the government of the neighboring country for its actions against a temple that has defied orders to hand over a wanted monk.
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The 51-year-old, who has taken a vow of celibacy like most Buddhist monks, posted a brief statement Wednesday night, denying all allegations to his more than a million followers on his verified account on Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter.
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BEIJING – One of China&aposs highest-ranking Buddhist monks is facing a government investigation over accusations of sexual misconduct, in what is seen by some as an indication the #MeToo movement is gaining traction in the world&aposs most populous nation.
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Around the time the bones were found, Ms. Lee and others with missing relatives joined emotional religious services on a boat near the Sewol, during which Catholic pastors, Protestant ministers and Buddhist monks prayed for the recovery of the nine's remains.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads CHICAGO — You're probably familiar with Takashi Murakami's smiling flowers and eccentric paintings of Buddhist monks, but you might have never seen his earlier works, which looks drastically different from the joyful, luxurious style associated with his name.
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It is mainly a gathering for customers and developers but also has the air of a music festival cum party congress: it featured U2, a rock band, numerous Buddhist monks and a socially minded speech by the firm's chief executive, Marc Benioff.
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NARATHIWAT, Thailand (Reuters) - Unknown gunmen shot dead two Buddhist monks and injured two others in an attack at a temple in Thailand's mainly Muslim south, the first such killing of a Buddhist monk in the restive region in more than three years.
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Nonetheless, southern Thailand had been largely peaceful until 2001, when a series of mysterious attacks began, not only on police and soldiers, but also on civil servants, school teachers and Buddhist monks—anyone, in short, seen as an agent of Thai imperialism.
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The danger that Burma still can slide back from its incomplete transition is dramatized by the continued conflict in Rakhine state, violence in the northeastern states of Kachin and Shan and the muted but still present voice of ultra-nationalist Buddhist monks.
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"I am here to accompany him for the last time," said Chhouk Da, 28, a volunteer helping to direct traffic as the procession made its way with Kem Lay's body in a refrigerated glass casket on a truck, flanked by Buddhist monks.
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Rather than tie these with blunt didacticism to current conflicts (or ones in the past, since Ms. Simmons once spent time with Buddhist monks retracing slave trade routes), Ms. Simmons has created a show that surges with energy, but also has cryptic ambiguity.
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"Two controversial Buddhist monks who have been at the center of similar anti-minority clashes before had been in the area on Sunday night," said Rishad Bathiudeen, Sri Lanka's minister of industry and commerce who was in Kandy to survey the damage.
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These perhaps hark back to what Mr. Bayrle has described as a formative experience — sneaking into a local Catholic church and hearing a group of women reciting the rosary — or later, listening to Buddhist monks in Asia meditating to droning wind instruments.
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HONG KONG — In the wake of vigilante attacks and brawls that have shaken Yangon, Myanmar's largest and most cosmopolitan city, the country's religious authorities are ramping up a crackdown on hard-line Buddhist monks who have played increasingly public roles as sectarian provocateurs.
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The show has an infatuation with Buddhist monks and local temples—Becca visited a Buddhist temple with Blake Horstmann to get "advice" about their relationship, just as Chris Soules and Becca Tilley did while visiting a sacred temple while they were in Bali.
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Image 2 of 2 MAE SAI, Thailand – With their head bowed and wearing orange robes, the members of the boys&apos soccer team rescued from almost three weeks trapped in a cave in northern Thailand on Saturday completed their time as novice Buddhist monks.
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KATTANKUDY, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Sri Lanka is moving to curtail Saudi Arabian influence, after some politicians and Buddhist monks blamed the spread of the kingdom's ultra-conservative Wahhabi school of Islam for planting the seeds of militancy that culminated in deadly Easter bomb attacks.
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Read: This Video of a Gator Eating Another Gator Is Metal as Hell Sometimes even the most serene among us just snap—just check out the video above, which shows several Buddhist monks throwing down in an all-out brawl outside Ningguo Temple in China's Jiangsu Province.
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There have been periodic bouts of anti-Chinese unrest in Tibetan areas, notably in 2008 when protests led by Buddhist monks gave way to violence, with rioters torching shops and turning on residents, especially majority Han Chinese, who many Tibetans see as intruders threatening their culture.
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The military government that came to power after a 2014 coup has stepped up efforts to clean up Buddhism by arresting monks involved in corruption scandals and through the introduction of a bill that reduces the influence of Buddhism's Sangha Supreme Council - the governing body of Buddhist monks.
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We flit from Rhodes gazing thoughtfully over the Cuban seafront to him wearing a sash and serving rice to Buddhist monks in Laos, with only one of his loftier mission statements ("We looked at the world and decided where we wanted to do things affirmatively") to guide us.
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Read: Watch Three Buddhist Monks Fight in Front of a Temple We are more than a decade into the 21st century, a fantastical time once imagined to be a utopia of flying firemen and underwater whale buses, but instead brought the world fast-food saunas and unqualified presidential candidates.
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MAE SAI, Thailand — Just weeks after they emerged from a flooded cave complex, guided to safety by expert divers while their families and supporters around the world awaited word of their safety, the Thais known as the Wild Boars began a ceremony on Tuesday to become novice Buddhist monks.
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Founded in the late 13th century and still home to many Buddhist monks, the complex is best known for its bell-shaped, 14th-century stone pagoda — reached by stone stairs lined with scaly beasts — and rock caverns filled with Buddha statues and figurines in the niches and alcoves.
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In our digital age, we tend to forget just how practical and versatile the material actually is, and many of its modern uses can be traced directly back to Japan, where the art of handmade washi began with the arrival of Buddhist monks to the islands from Korea in the seventh century.
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In his joyful pursuit of enlightenment — to "turn our flashes of insight into abiding light," as he put it — he meditated with Tibetan Buddhist monks, practiced yoga with Hindu holy men, whirled with ecstatic Sufi Islamic dervishes, chewed peyote with Mexican Indians and celebrated the Jewish Sabbath with a daughter who had converted to Judaism.
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She convened a panel on Burma at the United Nations, she met with refugees from Burma at the White House, and when she watched the August 2007 Burmese army crackdown on Buddhist monks on the small television in her office in the White House Residence, she called the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and asked him to act.
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As her first foray into directing a performance, Simon's An Occupation of Loss is a powerful, moving experience that places the audience in intimate proximity with the songs and wails from an Ecuadorian accordion player, a duo of women from Azerbaijan slapping their legs in time with their winding words, or dueling Tibetan horns played by Buddhist monks.
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But ultimately, she and her editors had the confidence to let it be a tale, to let it follow the odd twists and turns that only real life can supply: the seven Buddhist monks who come to sanctify the mill, the feng shui consultant ("Feng Shui Eddie") called in to worry about the spirits that might spring forth from the local cemetery.
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Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi's surprise announcement last month that she would lead the team of lawyers presenting Myanmar's case at The Hague unleashed a frenzy of public displays of support back home: billboards urging her luck in Europe, contemporary art exhibits dedicated to her heroism, blessings from Buddhist monks who see her as a defender of a faith besieged by Islam.
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She is shown throughout the film adorned in an extensive orange costume that resembles a caterpillar with a hood made to evoke a hijab, and the fast-moving video of the ubiquitous bug in malls, theme parks, street traffic, and nightclubs filled with prostitutes, youths, and foreigners gives potency to her presence as a Muslim minority in a city dominated by saffron-clad Buddhist monks.
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The core of the communist forces in Hue was the North Vietnamese Army with support from southern communist forces — the National Liberation Front, also known as Viet Cong, and from communist sympathizers, many of whom were former members of the defunct Struggle Movement, organized in Hue in 216 by Buddhist monks and students, which had led the Buddhist Uprising that was suppressed by the ARVN in 21968.
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