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Romney's Making the Right Play in Iowa

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By NATE SILVER - Nov. 22 (Opinion) - Jeff Zeleny’s weekend story about how Mitt Romney’s campaign will exert more rather than less effort in Iowa deserves your attention. It reflects what is perhaps the most important strategic decision that any Republican candidate will make this year. Mr.

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Is Buddhism a Religion?

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche - Aug. 06 (Opinion) - We often talk about Siddhartha, the young man who became known as the Buddha, as if he were a god. The fact is that he was just a simple Indian guy, a human being like you and me.

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Op-Ed Contributor: Many Faiths, One Truth

Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Tenzin Gyatso - May. 25 (Opinion) - Though every religion has a sense of exclusivity as part of its core identity, there is genuine potential for mutual understanding.

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Birth & Youth, part 1 | The Buddha | PBS Video

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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When Jesus met Buddha

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Boston Globe - By Philip Jenkins - Dec. 14 (Opinion) - Was the Buddha a demon? While few mainline Christians would put the matter in such confrontational terms, any religion claiming exclusive access to truth has real difficulties reconciling other great faiths into its cosmic scheme. Most Christian churches hold that Jesus alone is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and many also feel an obligation to carry that message to the world's unbelievers. But this creates a fundamental conflict with the followers of famous spiritual figures like Mohammed or Buddha, who preached radically different messages. Drawing on a strict interpretation of the Bible, some Christians see these rival faiths as not merely false, but as deliberate traps set by the forces of evil. Being intolerant of other religions - consigning them to hell, in fact - may be bad enough in its own right, but it increasingly has real-world consequences. As trade and technology shrink the globe, so different religions come into ever-closer contact with one another, and the results can be bloody: witness the apocalyptic assaults in Mumbai. In such a world, teaching different faiths to acknowledge one another's claims, to live peaceably together side by side, stops being a matter of good manners and becomes a prerequisite for human survival.

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Faithful give other religions benefit of doubt

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Eric Gorski - Jun. 24 (Special Report) - America remains a nation of believers, but a new survey finds most Americans don't feel their religion is the only way to eternal life -- even if their faith tradition teaches otherwise. The findings, revealed Monday in a survey of 35,000 adults, can either be taken as a positive sign of growing religious tolerance, or evidence that Americans dismiss or don't know the fundamental teachings of their own faiths.

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Mindfulness Meditation, Based on Buddha's Teachings, Gains Ground With Therapists

Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Benedict Carey - May. 27 (Special Report) - For years, psychotherapists have worked to relieve suffering by reframing the content of patients' thoughts, directly altering behavior or helping people gain insight into the subconscious sources of their despair and anxiety. The promise of mindfulness meditation is that it can help patients endure flash floods of emotion during the therapeutic process -- and ultimately alter reactions to daily experience at a level that words cannot reach. "The interest in this has just taken off," said Zindel Segal, a psychologist at the Center of Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, where the above group therapy session was taped. "And I think a big part of it is that more and more therapists are practicing some form of contemplation themselves and want to bring that into therapy."

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Tough language on Tibet despite China talks offer

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Nick Mulvenney - Apr. 26 (News Report) - Chinese media kept up its tough language on the Dalai Lama on Saturday, a day after a surprise offer of talks with his envoys, as analysts expressed caution about whether dialogue would ease tensions in Tibet. China blames the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, for a wave of anti-government unrest throughout its Tibetan areas, and has vilified him as a separatist bent on independence for Tibet and disrupting the Beijing Olympics. "It's too early to tell if the meeting will produce results or is just for PR... the International Campaign for Tibet, said...

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Dalai Lama ready for serious talks with China

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Apr. 26 (News Report) - The Dalai Lama said Saturday he welcomed China's offer to meet his envoy and said the two sides needed to talk seriously about how to resolve the problems that triggered riots in the Tibetan capital last month.

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Congress Aims to Dumb Down History,Pushes Fiction of Christian Nation in Public Schools

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Common Dreams - Jan. 15 (Press Release) - "The "whereas" paragraphs in this resolution are dishonest: they deliberately confuse the personal religious beliefs of our nation's political leaders with their public actions; they ignore the fact that our Founders (many of whom were deists anyway) checked their religion at the door when they wrote the Constitution.

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