Chief Incumbent of the London Buddhist Vihara Venerable Bogoda Seelawimala Thera said the newly appointed Sri Lanka's London High Commissioner Chandra Nihal Jayasinghe is a former senior Supreme Court Judge and a versatile international jurist with a deep knowledge in Buddhism.
The Shaolin Temple, the birthplace of Zen Buddhism and classical kung fu, rises over Henan province, China, as a great, symbolic lure, the 1,500-year-old fantasy that really, truly exists.
South Korean Buddhism monks and believers march to attend a Buddhist ceremony as part of protests against the South Korean government's policy toward US beef imports in front of the Seoul City Hall in Seoul, South Korea.
The patriarch of a Vietnamese Buddhist group that has peacefully campaigned against successive governments and Communist Party controls on religion, died in his monastery at the age of 87 on Saturday, the organization said.
