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| Buddhism forced to turn trendy to attract a new generation in Japan |
| 2008-01-09 19:02:00 |
Dressed in dark cotton robes, a bracelet of prayer beads hanging from his wrist, Gugan Taguchi certainly looks the part. But as he kneels to chant a sutra before an altar in the corner of the room, the people around him continue to chat, and his rhythmic prayers can only just be heard above a Blue Note jazz track.Minutes later Taguchi is back in his seat, glass in hand. A bottle of rum sits on the bar in front of him, next to a half-filled ashtray as his tobacco smoke mingles with the aroma of incense.
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| Pure Land Buddhism recognised by Gov’t |
| 2008-01-03 03:14:00 |
HA NOI —The Tinh do Cu si Phat hoi Viet Nam (Pure Land Buddhism of Viet Nam) has received official recognition as an independent and legal religious organisation.The Government Committee for Religious Affairs yesterday issued a decision to recognise Pure Land Buddhism as an independent religious organisation which adheres to Vietnamese laws. The decision means the religious group is equal with other independent and legal organisations.
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| Bhutan monk self-immolates at Bodh Gaya |
| 2007-12-29 17:21:00 |
PATNA, India (Reuters) - A Buddhist monk from Bhutan has burnt himself to death at Buddhism's holiest shrine in India, police said on Friday.Hundreds watched the octogenarian monk sit in meditation at the Mahabodhi temple in Bihar on Thursday and then set himself alight after daubing his body with a flammable substance.He died at a hospital in Bodh Gaya, the place where the Buddha is believed to have attained enlightenment. It is considered Buddhism's holiest shrine."People who rushed to save him were stunned to see that the monk remained firmly seated in the meditation posture and did not cry for help," said Navneet Ranjan Tiwari, a Bodh Gaya official
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| Buddhism is Calling ... on Your Cell? |
| 2007-12-22 14:08:00 |
I am not sure if this is a first but combining religion and cell phones is certainly new for me! The Buddhist gold-plated cell phone is meant to appeal to the largely Buddhist population of China complete with jade adornments, traditional Buddhist instrumental music, and Buddha-vision which offers an always available video image of the great Buddha. The battery is even embossed with a likeness of Buddha. Fitted with a lot of fabulous tools and options this technology is certainly bridging into new territory.
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| Buddhism in Vietnam |
| 2007-12-13 04:03:00 |
Many studies indicate that Buddhism entered southern Viet Nam by sea and northern Viet Nam by road. Monks and nuns aboard Indian merchant fleets were considered to be the first people bringing Buddhism to Viet Nam with simple practices such as worshiping Buddha, reciting the Buddhist scriptures, disease treatment, expel ing evil spirits and delivering dharma lectures to local inhabitants.
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| Buddhism's role in peace discussed at ECU event |
| 2007-12-03 19:54:00 |
Schellin described marching on Washington in protest of the Iraq war with other like-minded Buddhists earlier this year to a crowd of about 40 in Speight Auditorium in the school's art building."Engaged Buddhism maintains a non-violent approach in the tradition of Ghandi and Martin Luther King, without the attachment to the outcome," Schellin said.Buddhist practices do not get wrapped up in outcomes, Schellin explained. Buddhists are more concerned with recognizing faults and problems and accepting the world as it is.
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| Finding a 'living buddha' |
| 2007-11-28 01:04:00 |
According to Tibetan belief, the Dalai Lama is reincarnated when he dies. Until now, his replacement has been selected by a committee of senior monks, who look for boy babies born around the time of the lama's death. Several possible candidates are picked out and esoteric tests and family background checks are used over several years to decide which child shows the closest spiritual characteristics to the deceased lama.
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| Buddhism and the art of negotiation |
| 2007-11-20 02:13:00 |
Would the Buddha be an effective arbiter in a complicated and contentious land trust dispute or a messy divorce? For many experts, the answer is a resounding yes.While it’s impossible to actually have the ancient spiritual leader himself present in the room on such occasions, several Buddhist scholars, practitioners, and professional mediators at a panel last week (Nov. 7) said they use his practices and principles often to help facilitate interpersonal dialogue and effective negotiation.Ran Kuttner, visiting scholar at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (HLS), and Michael Wheeler LL.M. ’74, MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School and co-director of HLS’s Dispute Resolution Program, convened the group at HLSâ€
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| The Lessons from Myanmar |
| 2007-11-13 11:29:00 |
There has recently been a reaction in the press towards the attitude which is considered not only unprecedented but also impressive in relation to the massive resistance of the Buddhist Monks in Myanmar, in the Southeast Asia, against the military junta, established in the country since 1962 which keeps under house arrest Aung San Suu Kyi, 1991 Nobel Peace Prize and legitimate winner of the 1990 presidential elections , whose results, have not been officially recognized, yet.The passiveness typically of the Buddhists, the unusual of a movement headed by monks and the pressure of the western media for more democracy contribute to a series of surprises which do not take the most lessons of this process.
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| How Buddhism Became |
| 2007-11-08 11:45:00 |
After evening prayers on Sept. 18, the abbot of a small monastery in Myanmar's largest city convened the roughly 30 Buddhist monks in his charge. The bonds between secular and religious authority had broken, the abbot said. Then he gave the monks his blessing to take to the streets in protest.That meeting, one of many held in monasteries across Myanmar in mid-September, helped turn a sputtering campaign of dissent led by secular democracy activists into a mass movement led by Buddhist clergy. The country formerly known as Burma erupted in the biggest wave of antigovernment demonstrations in nearly 20 years.
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| 'Here we enjoy freedom,' says Dalai Lama |
| 2007-11-02 14:31:00 |
On a lush couch before some 5,000 of his exiled countrymen, the Dalai Lama leaned on one elbow and gazed intently as two dozen wide-eyed children sang Tibetan songs, their young spirited voices rising into the rafters of a newly minted cultural centre.A smile touched the corners of his mouth, but the famous glint in his eye was nearly absent. It was at best a bittersweet moment, the Tibetan culture kept alive so far from home.
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| Buddhists vow to work for peace |
| 2007-10-27 16:13:00 |
"Buddhism has played a model role in maintaining social stability," said Wei Daoru, an expert in Buddhist studies with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.Religion has helped facilitate understanding among people with different beliefs and diminished hatred and conflicts, he said.The representatives pledged support to the second World Buddhism Forum scheduled for November 2008. It will be held simultaneously in two cities: Hong Kong and Wuxi in Jiangsu Province.China sponsored the first World Buddhism Forum in April 2006, attracting at least 1,000 monks, researchers on Buddhism and dignitaries from more than countries. Delegates expounded how religion could contribute to social harmony and world peace.Buddhism was introduced to China from India in the first century AD from where it spre
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| Clashes in Tibet after US honor for Dalai Lama |
| 2007-10-21 07:44:00 |
BEIJING: Buddhist monks in the capital of Tibet clashed with police for four days while trying to celebrate the awarding of a U.S. honor for the Dalai Lama, a Hong Kong newspaper reported Sunday.The awarding of the U.S. Congress' highest civilian honor — personally bestowed by President George W. Bush on Wednesday — to the exiled spiritual leader had already caused China to warn that Washington had "gravely undermined" relations.
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| George Bush meets Dalai Lama |
| 2007-10-17 06:03:00 |
The Dalai Lama visited Mr Bush at the White House residence, rather than the Oval Office.The visit will continue with the President due to speak at a ceremony to give the Dalai Lama the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award bestowed by US Congress.It will be the first time a sitting U.S President has appeared in public with the 72-year-old head of world Buddhism.China has strongly objected to the Dalai Lama’s visit, but the diplomats say the President is not trying to provoke Beijing.
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| Where Are Burma's Monks? |
| 2007-10-12 16:48:00 |
Now, two weeks after the junta brutally cracked down on the pro-democracy demonstrations, the small monasteries that line both sides of the road are mostly locked and empty, while wooden barricades and bales of rusted barbed wire that police used to seal off Shwedagon are stacked on the pavement. Police and soldiers armed with automatic weapons sit on stools outside the mostly silent monasteries. More are stationed at the entrance of the hilltop temple, the spiritual center of Burmese Buddhism. As many as a thousand monks lived and studied at these small monasteries in the shadow of Shwedagon. But troops now far outnumber the handful of monks that are still seen at Shwedagon and the downtown Sule pagoda, another focal point of the pro-democracy protests.
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| Upcoming Events on Buddhism |
| 2007-10-06 18:03:00 |
Want to learn more about Tibetan Buddhism? Here is a listing of upcoming events. For a description of each program, check www.theithacajournal.com.* 1:30 p.m., Oct. 7. Tompkins County Public Library, Borg Warner Room. Ivette Vargas, assistant professor of Asian religious traditions, Austin College — “How Prominent are Women in Buddhism?: Leaders, Teachers, and the Future of Ordained Nuns.â€
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| American Buddhism: Eastern faith seeing Western growth |
| 2007-10-02 10:55:00 |
EDINBURG — Government security forces in Myanmar have reportedly killed at least three Buddhist monks who were peacefully participating in massive, ongoing protests against that country’s military government. Tensions started to rise last month, when the government drastically raised fuel prices in the impoverished country. Persecution of Buddhists in Myanmar and Tibet have consistently garnered media attention and cries for justice from activist groups in the United States.
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| Burma death toll much higher than reported |
| 2007-09-28 16:16:00 |
Crowds taunted and cursed security forces barricading central Rangoon overnight, as the junta tried to prevent more mass protests against Burma's 45 years of military rule and deepening economic hardship. Meanwhile Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said Australian diplomats feared the true death toll in the country was much higher than has been reported so far, and could be in the hundreds.
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| Merkel's Dalai Lama Meeting Prompts German Placation of Chinese |
| 2007-09-24 18:13:00 |
Sept. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Germany took steps to repair relations with China after Chancellor Angela Merkel met with the Dalai Lama, angering the government in Beijing.Christoph Heusgen, Merkel's foreign policy adviser, phoned China's ambassador to Germany, Ma Canrong, today to assure him of Merkel's commitment to pursuing closer bilateral ties, according to government spokesman Thomas Steg.
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| Buddhist meditation center lands in Mesa |
| 2007-09-20 06:10:00 |
Those interested in meditation have a new place to learn and practice it in the Southeast Valley. The Arizona International Buddhist Meditation Center has established a venue in Mesa. The registered, tax-exempt, non-profit society is primarily run by Sri Lankan Buddhist monk Venerable Siyabalagoda Ananda and the Rev. Dhammapala Kennard."I've been here 17 years trying to get a center. Finally, we can start the work," said Dhammapala of Chandler, who embraced Buddhist philosophy and was ordained in Malaysia in 1995.
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| Buddhism with a Brazilian touch |
| 2007-09-16 04:26:00 |
TRES COROAS, Brazil (Reuters Life!) - The voices chanting the ancient Tibetan Buddhist mantras have a trace of a bossa nova lilt. Meditation sometimes has to wait until after a game of soccer. High in the mountains of Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state lies the Chagdud Gonpa Khadro Ling (Buddhist center) -- "the sacred place of the sky dancers" in Tibetan.
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| More than 10,000 turn out in Spain to hear Dalai Lama |
| 2007-09-11 19:41:00 |
More than 10,000 people turned out on Monday to hear the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, speak in Spain, organisers said. Participants paid 20 euros (27.50 dollars) to listen to a speech by the 72-year-old Buddhist on "The Art of Happiness" at Barcelona's Palau Sant Jordi, one of the main venues of the 1992 Summer Olympics."In the animal world there are fights but in general they live in peace. But man does not, we are dissatisfied, we want more and more, and that generates stress,".
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| Tibetans Opposes China on Reincarnations |
| 2007-09-07 16:09:00 |
DHARMSALA, India (AP) — A Chinese order claiming Beijing must approve all of Tibet's spiritual leaders is an attempt to further repress and undermine the religious culture of the Himalayan region, the Tibetan government-in-exile said Sunday. For centuries, the search for the reincarnation of lamas — including Tibet's spiritual head, the Dalai Lama — has been carried out by select Tibetan monks. The new order, which came into force Saturday, states that all future incarnations of living Buddhas related to Tibetan Buddhism "must get government approval," according to China's official Xinhua News Agency.
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| International Buddhist centre for Yatinuwara |
| 2007-09-03 18:18:00 |
KANDY: Urban Development and Sacred Areas Development Minister Dinesh Gunawardane, said it is a national duty and a great responsibility to impart pure Buddhism to the younger generation as it is the most valuable contribution that we can give to the world. The Minister made these observations at a ceremony, after declaring Yatinuwara, Suriyagoda, Sri Narendrarama Raja Maha Vihare a Sacred Area, on the instructions of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. The building constructed at the Vihara premises for an International Buddhist Centre to commemorate the Ven. Weliwita Saranankara Sangha Raja Thera who had resided in the temple and who had pioneered the cause of higher ordination for the Maha Sangha during the reign of K
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| Buddhism still alive in Tibet |
| 2007-09-01 17:11:00 |
SAKYA MONASTERY, China (Reuters) - The sprawling Sakya Monastery in the remote Himalayan region of Tibet is testament to the survival of Buddhism after decades of political turmoil and repression in China. During the tumult of the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, Maoist zealots rampaged across Tibet, smashing Buddhist statues, destroying temples and forcing monks and nuns to abandon their religious lives. With more than 120 monks under its wings, the Sakya monastery has big plans to restore itself to its former glory -- all, of course, done under the watchful eye of China's Communist Party, which has ruled Tibet with an iron grip since 1950.
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| Buddhist confab to be held in Taiwan |
| 2007-08-30 17:30:00 |
The International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB), a self-governing organization of Buddhists from more than 20 countries, will hold its 2007 conference in northern Taiwan's Taoyuan County from Aug. 31 to Sept. 2. Nearly 100 delegates from around the world will attend the conference at the Buddhist Hongshi College in Kuanyin township. These delegates are coming from Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Australia, the United States and China.
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| China tightens grip on Tibetan Buddhism |
| 2007-08-28 22:41:00 |
China announced last month new regulations governing Tibetan Buddhism, including a stipulation that senior monks, known as "living Buddhas," cannot be reincarnated without government permission. "The reincarnation of living Buddhas must undergo application and approval procedures," the new regulations stipulate. "Living Buddha" reincarnations with a "particularly great impact," such as presumably of the next Dalai Lama, "shall be reported to the State Council for approval."
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| Museum Built to Protect Mini Buddhism Temple |
| 2007-08-26 17:17:00 |
A museum has been built to protect a mini Buddhism temple, claimed to be the smallest in the world, from the harsh desert elements in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Located in Qira County, southern Xinjiang's Hotan Prefecture, the Damiku Temple covering just four square meters was built during the Northern and Southern Dynasties 1,500 years ago. The temple is made of wood and mud and has fine frescos of Buddhism scriptures on the four walls. A Buddha statue, about 65 centimeters tall, stands in the center of the temple. In the middle of the northern end stand other wide-shouldered and thin-waisted Buddha statues.
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| Buddhist Mother Festival gets off to joyous start |
| 2007-08-24 18:59:00 |
The Buddhist Mother Festival (Le Vu lan) began Friday in Ho Chi Minh City with a clutch of events to honor Buddhism and Vietnamese mothers. The festival, which falls in the middle of the seventh month in the lunar calendar, opened with a mass worship day at Pho Quang Pagoda in Tan Binh district, with devotees wearing red roses on their chests if their mothers were still alive and white flowers otherwise. Other pagodas around the city too have been holding prayers.
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| 4th Buddhism Cultural Festival opens at Wutai Mountain |
| 2007-08-23 14:06:00 |
the 4th Buddhism Cultural Festival and the 18th International Tourism Month at Wutai Mountain of Xinzhou City, North China's Shanxi Province. The one-month event attracted many Buddhists and tourists. Wutai Mountain is known as one of the five most eminent Buddhist sanctums in the world and the top of China's four famous Buddhist mountains. It boasts many Buddhist statues and a great number of Buddhist classics and frescoes in its ancient temples.
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| Student Seats Available For Dalai Lama Event at Cornell |
| 2007-08-20 17:48:00 |
In a time of war, Ithaca will host a man of peace — his holiness the Dalai Lama, Nobel Prize winner and internationally revered spiritual leader, who will return Oct. 9 to10 after almost two decades for three public speaking events, entitled “Bridging Worlds.”The three events, at Cornell, Ithaca College and the State Theatre sold out in July, but student tickets are available today, Aug. 20, for the Oct. 9 show at Barton Hall entitled, “A Human Approach to World Peace.” The tickets are available to students in order accommodate the newest members of the Cornell community who arrived on campus this past Friday.
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| A new age for Lhasa |
| 2007-08-18 16:45:00 |
Every day, they walk the perimeter of Lhasa's holiest shrine to accrue blessings in the next life because, the precepts of Tibetan Buddhism say, their lot in this one is preordained when they come into it. Once, travelers risked their lives to reach the magical, mystical city of Lhasa, locked in Central Asia at the edge of the Tibetan Plateau. Mountain ranges rise in every direction: the Karakoram and Ladakh to the west, the Kunlun and Nan Shan to the north, the high Himalayas to the south and east. Coming to Lhasa by land meant crossing some of the roughest terrain on Earth; before about 1950, there were virtually no paved roads.
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| Courses in Classical Tibetan Language To Be Offered at UB |
| 2007-08-17 01:29:00 |
As a follow up to the 2006 visit to University at Buffalo by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, the UB Asian Studies Program will offer introductory courses in the classical Tibetan language in the 2007-08 academic year taught by noted Tibetan scholar Craig Preston. The courses will serve as an introduction to this written language, which was created to translate the large corpus of Indian Buddhist sutras, tantras and commentaries from the original Sanskrit. It is the language of the sacred texts of Tibetan Buddhism, most of which have not been translated into modern Tibetan, Chinese or Western languages.
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| Mihin Lanka unveils flights to Buddhagaya |
| 2007-08-15 16:03:00 |
“We are excited to expand to Buddhagaya, one of the holiest places of Buddhism and bringing our growing network to the Indian State of Bihar,” said head of commercial for Mihin Lanka Sugath Rajapakse. Gaya becomes third Indian city to be served from Colombo following launch of flights to India two months ago.
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| Buddhism revived in Tibet |
| 2007-08-12 23:21:00 |
Tibet boasts more than 1,700 religious sites with more than 40,000 Buddhist monks and nuns. Despite its more relaxed attitude, China has recently announced tighter controls of Tibetan Buddhism, demanding that those people deemed to be "living Buddhas" must first get government approval.
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| Difference between Buddhism, Hinduism significant |
| 2007-08-11 04:43:00 |
Gautama Buddha was born into a Hindu royal family in northeastern India and was named Siddhartha. When he was born, a sage told his father that Siddhartha would either be a ruler or a wandering monk. Afraid of the latter possibility, the father reared his son in the sheltered confines of his palace and endeavored to protect him from the life and the inevitable suffering that lay beyond the palace walls. Siddhartha, however, was a restless soul and would not be limited by his father's concerns.
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| Buddha book hits the spa |
| 2007-08-09 00:10:00 |
Buddhism, he told Garfinkel, is more like science, psychology and philosophy than religion. It’s a tool for a living — a prism through which each individual can view their own spiritual quest — their search for truth, meaning and happiness. Traveling the world, Garfinkel went on his own search. Throughout the United States, Poland, India, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, China, Tibet, Japan and France, he asked many questions of many people and was met with a mixture of burgeoning enlightenment, unlikely heroes and leader hypocrisies.
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| Gandhigiri on your plate |
| 2007-08-07 03:36:00 |
Mahatma Gandhi believed that your thought processes are influenced by what you eat.India is the land of spiritualism. And the whole process of what we eat assimilate and eliminate is a manifestation of our genetic and spiritual blue print. One of the greatest goals is to design a proper diet for ourselves which makes us feel good in each and every moment of our lives.
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| China to regulate Dalai's heirs |
| 2007-08-04 23:31:00 |
Communist China has issued new rules to regulate the reincarnation of Living Buddhas, which include the Panchen and the Dalai Lama. The move is seen as an attempt to thwart any eventuality like the possible birth of a Living Buddha in India to replace the ageing Dalai Lama, or any attempt by his close followers to find his successor. The history of Buddhism — including Tibetan Buddhism — have instances of Living Buddhas being born outside the Tibetan region. The sixth Dalai Lama and renowned poet, Tsangyang Gyatso, was born in Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh.
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| A Harmony of Minds |
| 2007-08-03 02:06:00 |
SINGAPORE: A new book that promotes universal values of the various religions in Singapore was launched on Thursday. Titled "A Harmony of Minds", the book features a collection of excerpts from the major faiths - Bahai faith, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Sikhism, Taoism and Zoroastrian. The book is written in the four official languages and contains photographs contributed by the Photographic Society of Singapore.
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