Buddhism

Boat capsizes off Myanmar; dozens missing and feared dead

2013-05-14 10:00:00

NEW DELHI – A boat carrying approximately 100 Rohingya Muslims capsized late Monday off the coast of Myanmar with many of its occupants feared dead, UN officials said, as the region braced for a cyclone expected to slam low-lying areas inhabited...

Boat capsizes off Myanmar; dozens feared dead

2013-05-14 16:53:00

NEW DELHI — At least 58 people were missing and feared dead Tuesday after a boat capsized off Myanmar while residents tried to flee an approaching cyclone, United Nations officials said. The boat was carrying about 100 Rohingya Muslims, many of...

Myanmar panel proposes measures to ease ethnic tensions

2013-04-29 13:00:00

NEW DELHI, India -- Ever since Myanmar opened to the West, released political prisoners and allowed the opposition led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to run for office, it has been dogged by tensions among its many ethnic and religious minorities....

Pictures in the News | April 16, 2013

2013-04-16 08:14:15

Review: Takashi Murakami captivates at Blum & Poe

2013-04-18 11:30:00

Back in the 1960s, Marshall McLuhan predicted that modern technology would turn the world into a global village. Now that that’s come to pass, the most captivating art being made today begins with a savvy understanding of its conflicted place in a...

The Week in Pictures | April 15 – April 21, 2013

2013-04-19 15:13:42

Myanmar officials blame electrical problems for mosque fire

2013-04-02 10:44:00

Electrical problems were to blame for a fire that reportedly killed 13 children at a mosque and religious school in Myanmar, authorities said Tuesday, even as the blaze stirred up suspicions of an attack on Muslims. Yangon regional fire chief Kyi Win...

Myanmar on edge after new eruption of interreligious violence

2013-03-25 14:00:00

As the Myanmar government urged calm, Muslim shops reportedly sat shuttered Monday in the capital of Yangon, a sign of continued unease after the re-eruption of deadly religious violence in the country. Riots in the central city of Meiktila,...

Ruth Ozeki's 'A Tale for the Time Being' is a diary, a puzzle, a novel

2013-03-21 14:00:00

Ruth Ozeki opens her third novel, "A Tale for the Time Being," with a small deception — or, more accurately, a sleight of hand. Forgoing context or explanation, she plunges us into the diary of a 16-year-old Japanese girl named Nao. The language...

Taking a message to Myanmar

2012-11-18 00:00:00

In the last two years, Myanmar — also known as Burma — has made significant progress along the road to democratization. The military, long a brutal and repressive ruling force, handed over power to an elected government last year (although...

Lebowski lovers: The Dude and the Zen Master riff in L.A.

2013-01-11 10:57:00

The Dude held court in Los Angeles on Thursday night. Or his Dudeness, or Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing. Jeff Bridges, who played "the Dude" in the Coen brothers’ cult classic film “The Big Lebowski&...

Catholics see big gains in Congress: What does it mean?

2013-01-07 10:55:00

Most postmortems of the 2012 elections have focused on its implications for the future of the Republican Party, the rise of the Latino vote or the continued polarization of the country by party and region. But here’s a takeaway you probably haven&...

The shrine room at Madison's Deer Park Buddhist Center features a statue of the Buddha and a photograph of the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists.

2013-03-31 17:27:20

Buddhist monks chant before His Holiness the Dalai Lama spoke to a sold-out crowd at the O'Neill Center at Western Connecticut State University Thursday afternoon.

2012-10-19 04:43:00

Buddhist monks hold posters as they protest in front of the Bangladeshi Embassy in Yangon. Hundreds of Buddhist monks supported by some lay people protested against the recent attacks on minority Buddhists and their temples in southern Bangladesh.

2012-10-08 00:00:00