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2014-11-30T17:38:50-05:00

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Big Buddha Gets Makeover

Last updated on: November 30, 2014 at 5:38 pm By George G. Coe

Meet the Mengshan Mountain Giant Buddha. He’s the second largest stone carved Buddha in the world and probably the oldest in China, dating back almost 1500 years. He is wearing the gold robe to protect his crumbling body. According to the Mail Online, the robe is “golden in colour to emulate the gowns worn by Buddhists in monasteries.” Mining and weather have taken its toll on the Buddha. But China’s Ministry of Land Resources has come to the rescue with millions of... Read more

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2014-11-29T14:55:58-05:00

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Arbaeen: World’s Biggest Shia Pilgrimage

Last updated on: November 29, 2014 at 2:55 pm By George G. Coe

It’s one of the largest pilgrimages in the world rivaling or even surpassing the number of pilgrimages to Mecca during Ramadan! Arbaeen celebrates the martyrdom of the third Shia Iman Hussein, the grandson of the prophet Mohammad. Pilgrims commemorate the event with a walking tour of Karebala in Iraq where the Imam Hussein Shrine is located. According to this story in the Independent, Iman Hussein died in the 7th century in the Battle of Karbala where he and his supporters were... Read more

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2014-11-26T06:37:45-05:00

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Alan Watts in Animated Clips

Last updated on: November 26, 2014 at 6:37 am By George G. Coe

Alan Watts, the author of the 1957 classic, The Way of Zen, helped popularize Zen Buddhism in the United States. In the animated clips below, which I found on Open Culture, Watts illustrates some Japanese Buddhist concepts and in “The Story of the Chinese Farmer, discusses the “unity and interconnectedness of all things.” Read more

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2014-11-22T18:08:25-05:00

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Status of Jerusalem for Passports

Last updated on: November 22, 2014 at 6:08 pm By George G. Coe

Can an American citizen list Israel as their place of birth, instead of Jerusalem? That’s what the Supreme Court is going to decide next year. A 12 year old boy sued the US government to allow the designation on his passport. It’s a big deal. The Washington Post calls it a tinderbox. “That’s because the issue of sovereignty over this ancient city is a very delicate matter.” NPR notes that “Israel considers Jerusalem its eternal capital and has controlled the... Read more

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2014-11-22T12:53:02-05:00

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The Story of Human Rights

Last updated on: November 22, 2014 at 12:53 pm By George G. Coe

Studying human rights? Here’s a touching, engaging, and excellent primer illustrating what they are and why they are so important from United for Human Rights. Thanks to Face to Faith for the link. Read more

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2014-11-17T14:42:52-05:00

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Learning Human Rights with Face to Faith

Last updated on: November 17, 2014 at 2:42 pm By George G. Coe

Do your students know what human rights are? Are they familiar with current cases in which those rights are threatened? Face to Faith, an organization started by Prime Minister Tony Blair to bring students of different faiths and cultures together, is partnering with Hardwired.org in December to help “educate and encourage advocacy on the rights of religious and belief minority groups.” Part of that education includes video-conferences and blogging, where students in different parts of the world can connect with each other and... Read more

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2014-11-16T11:46:12-05:00

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Guardians of Shinto Shrines

Last updated on: November 16, 2014 at 11:46 am By George G. Coe

An angry dog? No! It’s a Shinto guardian in Tokyo. It’s called a Komainu or lion dog. Paris of them are found at the entrance of most Japanese Shinto shrines and temples. According to the Encyclopedia of Shinto, the lions are usually made of stone and a male is often paired with a female. One has an open mouth while the other has a closed mouth which, the Encyclopedia of Shinto notes, represents”the so-called un-posture symbolizing the “alpha” and “omega”... Read more

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2014-11-13T11:11:13-05:00

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School System Strikes Religious Holidays

Last updated on: November 13, 2014 at 11:11 am By George G. Coe

Wow! Muslims asked the Montgomery County School Board in Maryland to add the Muslim holy day of Eid al-Adha as a holiday. Instead of adding the holiday, because it did not meet certain guidelines for adding holidays, the board decided to scrub the Christian holidays of Christmas and Easter. Students will still get time off, but now Christmas will be called winter break and Easter will be called spring break. The decision angered both Muslims and Christians. As this story in the Washington... Read more

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2015-03-05T12:16:53-05:00

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The Seven Wonders of Buddhism

Last updated on: March 5, 2015 at 12:16 pm By George G. Coe

Learn the history and development of Buddhism from some of its greatest sites. British historian Bettany Hughes visits seven amazing sites in this 2011 BBC documentary to try to better understand Buddhism. She starts at the Mahabodhi Temple in India where the Buddha first attained enlightenment and finishes in Los Angles at the Hsi Lai Temple. Read more

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2014-11-03T20:32:59-05:00

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Pema Chödrön: Quieting the Mind

Last updated on: November 3, 2014 at 8:32 pm By George G. Coe

Teaching Buddhism? The first five minutes of this 2006 Bill Moyers interview with Pema Chödrön provides a good introduction to Buddhism as its practiced today. And we learn about an extraordinary “Bodhisattva warrior.” According to the Moyers PBS site “Ani Pema Chödrön is an American Buddhist nun and author whose teachings and writings on meditation have helped make Buddhism accessible to a broad Western audience. She currently directs the Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia, Canada, the first Tibetan monastery in... Read more

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