A Better Place - Buddhist Retreat

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — No matter how I searched, the Wi-Fi wasn't there. No television either. Even my phone, struggling toward two bars, conspired against modernity.

But that's what you pay for at the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center and its 108 wooded acres just south of this state's flagship university. Not that you pay much. Renting one of the four yurts in these woods costs $65 per night.

Mindful Eating and Fast-Food Buddhism

"Mindful eating" has officially entered the memosphere. An article about it reached the very top of The New York Timesmost-emailed list this week, and two days later it's still hanging in there at number three.

Mindful Eating as Food for Thought

TRY this: place a forkful of food in your mouth. It doesn’t matter what the food is, but make it something you love — let’s say it’s that first nibble from three hot, fragrant, perfectly cooked ravioli.

2012: Not So Scary After All?

LOS ALTOS, Calif., Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Hollywood has given us many visions of the end of the world, one of the most recent being in the movie 2012. Even without this fuel, there are many who fear that the Mayan calendar, which ends on December 21, 2012, is proof that the upcoming year will bring about Armageddon. But Marina Lighthouse, well-known feng shui expert, has evidence from another ancient culture that not only will the world keep going, it can flourish!

Don't worry, be happy

Mornings can be a tense part of the day. Rolling out of bed, frantically dressing, scalding your tongue on hot tea, then slamming the door shut and rushing to the nearest traffic jam.

But does it need to be that way?

Walk the talk

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — SHANTUM Seth belongs to one of India’s most celebrated families. His brother Vikram is a respected novelist best known for the award-winning epic, A Suitable Boy, while his mother, Leila, was the first ever female Chief Justice in India’s state court system.

Tibetan Buddhists believe Minnesota 5-year-old to be reincarnation of spiritual guru

MINNEAPOLIS -- It's morning, and a little boy with a shaved head and a face shaped like the moon chants a Tibetan prayer.
His high-pitched voice echoes inside the bedroom in Columbia Heights, Minn., that his father has transformed into a lavish prayer room. Here, the 5-year-old forsakes his cartoons and toys to study scripture and learn to pray the Buddhist way.

Dựng tượng Phật Quan Âm... bồng súng

Tại một hồ nước trên cánh đồng thuộc xã Đại Cường (Đại Lộc, Quảng Nam) có một pho tượng cô du kích đầu đội mũ tai bèo, vai mang súng. Bức tượng khi xây có thể là thạch cao trắng, nhưng bây giờ, người ta thấy đã loang lổ nhiều mảng đen.