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High court orders Pakistan to let Hindus worship in historic temple
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Pakistan’s Peshawar High Court on Thursday ordered the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to allow Hindus to worship in a temple closed after Pakistan’s independence 64 years ago. A two-member judicial panel comprised of Chief Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan and Justice Waqar Ahmed Seth approved the petition of a Hindu woman, Phool Vati, and directed the…
NY Times: Scorned Buddhist convert besieges Tibetan master with 8,000 threatening “tweets”
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“Even the Buddha of compassion might have been distressed to be on the receiving end of the diatribes that William Lawrence Cassidy is accused of posting on Twitter,” directed at Tibetan Buddhist reincarnated master Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo, reports the New York Times. Lhamo, a Maryland-based Buddhist leader whose legal name is Alyce Zeoli, was the…
Japanese Buddhists, Christians mark six-month anniversary of earthquake, tsunami
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While the United States was observing the 10-year anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Japan on Sunday was marking the six-month anniversary of the March earthquake and tsunami that devasted a large portion of the island nation. The Japanese observed the anniversary with prayer services, bell ringing and chanting at 2:46 p.m., the time when the…
Ugandan college student returns home, baffles family with scuba gear, saffron robes
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In June 1990, Steven Kaboggoza,24, left his home in the African nation of Uganda to attend college in India. His family and kin expected him to return as “a rich businessman with a briefcase,” writes Marjorie Chiew, writing for the Buddhist Channel. Seven years later, he came home with a shaven head, wearing saffron robes,…
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