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5/29/10 by Kate Linthicum: Jack Kornfield says ‘we’re teaching meditation not as a religious activity but as a support for living a wise and healthy and compassionate inner life.’ In 1972, Jack Kornfield stepped off a plane in Washington...

Māgha Pūjā, Makha Bucha (Thai: มาฆบูชา) is one of the important Buddhist festivals celebrated on the full moon day of Māgha in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand, and usually falls in the middle of February. The purpose of the festival is to aim spiritual...

Today it's Makha Bucha Day; an important Buddhist festival celebrated on the full moon day of Māgha in Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand, and on the full moon day of Tabodwe in Myanmar. The spiritual aims of the day are: not to commit any kind of sins; do...

Many have long lamented the untapped tourism potential of Lumbini, known as ‘the Buddhist Mecca.’/Photo/Reuters By Ilaria Maria Sala [The Wall Street Journal] LUMBINI, Nepal: The plain of Terai, a poor agricultural land crossed by holy...

Compassionate letter 9, “Myanmar Generals’ record in the Dog-leather book of Sakya (Thagyar Min)”  As BO AUNG DIN  in Burma Digest Dear darling Nan, I hereby wish a very Happy Burmese New Year and peaceful Thingyan...