Until 1949, Tibet was an independent Buddhist nation in the Himalayas which had little contact with the rest of the world. It existed as a rich cultural storehouse of the Mahayana and Vajrayana teachings of Buddhism. Religion was a unifying theme among the Tibetans — as was their own language, literature, art, and world view [...]
Tags: Buddhism · Censorship · China · Crime/Law · Terrorism · War
Over at the DailyKoz (I don’t link there) someone by the name of Yacka Jah Yacka recently wrote a post entitled “A Simple Way to End the War on Terror”. He proposes that if everyone in the US would simply convert to Islam then terrorism would stop: How many of us are really just religious [...]
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From MSNBC.com: In one of history’s more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into effect next month and strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is to reincarnate, is [...]
Tags: Absurd · Buddhism · Censorship · China
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