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The beautiful Wat Dhammabucha Buddhist Temple is an unexpected treasure in San Antonio. A stunning Thai Buddhist monastery located on 12 acres of lush hill country land, the temple welcomes San Antonio's immigrants from Thailand and Laos. From the ornate Buddhist statues to the meditation paths passing by lotus leaves, and especially to the kind and welcoming monks who make their home there. The Wat Dhammabucha Buddhist Temple is a peaceful haven hidden in one of America's largest cities. Reasons For Founding Wat Dhammabucha Buddhist Temple arose through the cooperation of the Buddhist community of San Antonio, TX, which consists of primarily Thai people. These people came to America for many purposes, such as family matters, studying, finding careers, and as the result of post war era, etc. It was then they decided to found a Temple which was to be a center for Buddhism in the city of San Antonio; a place where the community could come together and study the teachings of Buddhism. It was to be a place to educate people in the understanding of Buddhism, but also in the understanding of nature and ones self. Ultimately, Wat Dhammabucha is a place to practice meditation (vipasana). |
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Afghan archaeologists find Buddhist site as war rages
Archaeologists in Afghanistan, where Taliban Islamists are fighting the Western-backed government, have uncovered Buddhist-era remains in an area south of Kabul, an official said on Tuesday.
"There is a temple, stupas, beautiful rooms, big and small statues, two with the length of seven and nine meters, colorful frescos ornamented with gold and some coins," said Mohammad Nader Rasouli, head of the Afghan Archaeological Department.
" Some of the relics date back to the fifth century (AD). We have come across signs that there are items maybe going back to the era before Christ or prehistory," he said.
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Possible Successor to Dalai Lama Under Virtual House Arrest in India
At the end of a cold Himalayan December in 1999, a 14-year old monk made a phenomenal escape from a monastery in Tibet where his every move was patrolled by the Chinese. Fleeing by car, on foot and by horseback, he crossed some of Nepal's most forbidding terrain and found his way to India, where he settled at the feet of the Dalai Lama, seeking teaching.
Since then, he has been under virtual house arrest by the Indian government, circumscribed in his movements, and now banned from travel to the West, where he has a large following—and to the seat of his Tibetan sect in Sikkim, a once-independent Tibetan Buddhist kingdom that India undermined and incorporated in 1975. The reason for India's denial of the monk's freedom of movement seems plain. In a word: it's China.
Young and strong, he already has a wide audience among Tibetans as a protégé of the Dalai Lama and could, however unwittingly, inspire Tibetan youth to revive their dreams of stronger resistance to the Chinese, a course the Dalai Lama has told them repeatedly would be suicidal. More important, the Karmapa is rapidly becoming a fresh new face for Tibetan Buddhism internationally.
For the time being, India, which preaches religious freedom and a special relationship with Buddhism, seems to be doing Beijing's will at keeping the Karmapa out of global view.
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South Caroline Town Becomes Buddhist Pilgrimage Site
Hundreds of Buddhist devotees gathered at a rural spot in Spartanburg County on Saturday for the dedication ceremony of a new pilgrimage site.
Members of the Cambodian community completed construction last week on a three-story Buddhist shrine, called a stupa. It's located beside the Wat Sao Sokh San Temple at 841 Shiloh Church Road outside the city limits of Wellford, South Carolina.
It's the first Cambodian Buddhist stupa in the United States. The dedication ceremony designates the Spartanburg County site as holy.
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