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Buddhist protests against Dalai Lama called off

GENEVA (Reuters) – The Buddhist group leading a global campaign of harassment against the Dalai Lama has called off its demonstrations and disbanded, according to a statement on its website. The announcement comes after a Reuters investigation revealed in December that China's ruling Communist Party backs the Buddhist religious

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The problem with pluralism

Whittaker Chambers wrote that "the crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God." Pluralism is the manifestation of such indifference because it admits that belief is subjective and personal rather than an expression of existential reality. A believer cannot profess

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Dalai Lama leaves US clinic after ‘routine’ health check

Tibet's exiled Buddhist spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has left the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., after what his office called a routine annual check-up, hospital officials said on Wednesday. The 80-year-old Nobel Peace Laureate canceled planned visits in the United States in October at the advice of

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Former Buddhist monk creates home for 85 abandoned children

Written by Kimberly Winston (RNS) — Imagine the Dalai Lama hand-picking you to teach Buddhism in Boston.