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In a little room of a small hillside Buddhist temple that barely survived Japan’s tsunami five months ago, Yuko Kikuchi knelt down, quietly sobbing and gently caressing the boxes that hold the bones and ashes of her perished mother and sister-in-law, reports Yoko Kubota. “It’s harder now,” says 57-year-old Kikuchi, who came back to her…

India has eased its immigration rules for visiting Buddhist scholars from Mongolia — in order to deepen cultural ties and boost bilateral relations between the two nations, according to Ashwini Shrivastava, reporting for the Buddhist Channel. “India has liberalized its visa regime for Mongolian monks coming to India for Buddhist studies. They will now be eligible for…

The Tibetan National Martyrs’ Memorial is a black obelisk in Dharamsala, the Indian hill station that serves as the headquarters of exiled Tibetans who have fled their Chinese-ruled homeland. “Usually the slender monument is surrounded by a colorful tangle of Tibetan prayer flags,” reports Time magazine’s Hannah Beech:  But on August 16, the base of…

“Instead of plunging headfirst to their death in a pot of boiling water, 534 live lobsters escaped the dinner plate and belly flopped to freedom into the dark waters of the Atlantic Ocean,” reports the Buddhist Channel. The liberation of the crustaceons was in celebration of Wheel Turning Day, which celebrates the first sermon made…
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