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I worked in Bangkok in the ’70s, and I fell in love with the place forever. Thais are cool. Their soothing manners rubbed off on me like the cool wisp of a eucalyptus leaf.
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I worked in Bangkok in the ’70s, and I fell in love with the place forever. Thais are cool. Their soothing manners rubbed off on me like the cool wisp of a eucalyptus leaf.
Two women tied the knot on Saturday in Taiwan’s first same-sex Buddhist wedding, a move rights groups hope will help make the island become the first place in Asia to legalize gay marriage.
The visit to the country this week of an eminent holy man has highlighted a controversial issue within the Karma Kagyu, one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Before Trinley Thaye Dorje’s arrival, Inquirer sent him a questionnaire specific to certain Philippine situations, put together by a panel of mostly Inquirer writers—social anthropologist and columnist Michael Tan, author and columnist Jaime T. Licauco; world-renowned entertainer Lea Salonga; award-winning filmmaker Ferdinand Balanag, a practicing Buddhist; and animal rights activist Nice Rodriguez.
Lumbini is really nothing more than a small village at a crossroads on the hot and dusty lowland plains of the flat, agricultural Terai region of southern Nepal.
On my first night in Lumbini, I woke up before dawn to the measured, deep sound of bells from the Tibetan monastery down the road, calling monks to early morning meditation.
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