Then, for the next 90 minutes, the youngsters recite the teachings of the Great Sage, along with Buddhist sutras and Tang dynasty poetry.
Travelling upcountry to Kandy, the green hill country heart of Sri Lanka, the architectural legacy moves from colonial to religious, with Buddhist structures in abundance.
When Preah Maha Ghosananda, in later years, became associated with Buddhist temples in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, his admirers would expect to find him there.
Chiang Mai, in the northern region, surrounded by mountains and filled with Buddhist temples, is second in size to Bangkok, considerably less expensive and more serene.
Monastic communities continue to live throughout Angkor, with Buddhist monks often passing through the historic sites on their way to and from their pagodas (a blend of temple and monastery).
That includes avoiding getting inked up with Buddhist tattoos.
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His commitment to nonviolence came through studying the Hindu leader Mahatma Gandhi, his opposition to the Vietnam War was motivated by meetings with the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh and some of his most profound conversations about faith and civil rights took place with a Rabbi, Abraham Joshua Heschel.
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The next week I had dinner with a Buddhist monk in a Buddhist monastery.
In accordance with the Buddhist practice of self-effacement, his name and photo are absent from the foundation's website, handouts and buildings.
Hillary left a crucifix at the top of the mountain and Tenzing, in keeping with his Buddhist beliefs, left an offering of food.
They also mesh with the Buddhist values of compassion and harmony.
From the South Gate of Geumjeongsan, you can extend your walk to take in Seokbulsa Temple, with its Buddhist statues built into the rock face and panoramic views over the city.
The Location: Tai O is a rambling village of creaky houses, many with colonial and art-deco charm, interspersed with Taoist and Buddhist temples.
Muslims make up less than 10% of the population and have generally good relations with the Sinhalese Buddhist majority, says the BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo.
Downtown Lhasa was crowded with people celebrating a Buddhist festival, it added.
This was very difficult for the first one or two years, but then I learned how to deal with it by practicing Zen Buddhist meditation and yoga.
The ceremony began with a Citation presented by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, and proceeded with offerings from the Princess and Buddhist well-wishing prayers.
We took an excursion to see ancient Buddhist monks' caves with their elaborate meditation paintings and tall Buddha statues in Bamiyan (since destroyed by the Taliban).
By an accident of colonial history, they were separated from Malaysia, with which they share language and religion, and ended up part of Thailand, with its Thai-speaking, Buddhist majority.
Begin by taking a 10-minute time out from shopping at one of the 11 cloud-like pods placed randomly around the store, which were launched in collaboration with Andy Puddicombe, a former Buddhist monk and creator of modern meditation enterprise Headspace.
He also meets with six people to provide spiritual direction, a practice with roots in the Christian, Buddhist and Jewish traditions that now includes more than 5, 000 U.S. practitioners from a variety of faiths, up from 400 in 1990.
With the help of a computer-savvy Buddhist monk and a local businessman, he made a video that the trio loaded up onto YouTube.
The religious scholars he studied at Harvard, such as Jewish philosopher Martin Buber (1878--1965), helped this devout Episcopalian articulate what is in essence a Buddhist worldview: Business is interdependent with everything around it, and hence it must tread lightly alongside nature, so both can remain healthy and sustain each other in the long run.
Upon arrival, you will meet with the monks and then begin a course focused on Buddhist philosophy and monastic life.
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There, she interacts with two movie directors, a sexy lifeguard, a Buddhist monk, and others whose peace and quiet are roiled by the inquisitively energetic foreigner.
He went hiking through the mountains with some friends, and arrived to stay the night at a Buddhist temple.
In the next election, polls suggest, the LDP cannot win by itself, nor even only with the support of its old ally, New Komeito, a Buddhist-linked party.
They branded the ideas of 969 with a logo: the iconic lion statue of India's Buddhist emperor, Ashoka the Great, set against a prayer wheel and the colorful stripes of the Buddhist prayer flag.
They even jumped into coalitions with the LDP, first the socialists, now the New Conservatives and the Buddhist-backed New Komeito, leaving voters distrustful of what they stand for.
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