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Published on Thursday, 07 February 2008 16:44 | | 
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Has this oft-maligned Buddhist organisation - the largest in America - figured out something that others haven't?
Clark Strand has a few challenging answers
Published on Thursday, 07 February 2008 11:44 | | |
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Can Buddhism help you sort out your relationship problems?
Published on Thursday, 07 February 2008 11:32 | | |
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Daisaku Ikeda is president of Soka Gakkai International, and founder of
Soka University and the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy
Research.
This year, the Doomsday Clock devised by the Chicago-based Bulletin of
the Atomic Scientists was advanced two minutes, for the first time in
five years. It now stands at 11:55 p.m., just five minutes away from
the 'midnight' of human annihilation. This change not only reflects
last
year's nuclear test by North Korea and uncertainties regarding Iran's
nuclear development goals; it is also a reflection of the impact of
environmental degradation and climate change.
Published on Thursday, 07 February 2008 10:35 | | |
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SGI member Joycelyn Foo is featured on New Zealand national TV programme My God.
The 30-minute show introduces different religions through featuring a practitioner's life and philosophy.
Published on Thursday, 07 February 2008 09:45 | | |
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Winner of the 2008 Grammy for Best Album, jazz great Herbie Hancock's journey into Buddhism began in 1972 with a life-altering bass solo.
Published on Thursday, 07 February 2008 08:50 | | |
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How many empires have risen and fallen in the Middle East during the past 5000 years?
Find out in just 90 seconds...
Published on Thursday, 07 February 2008 08:29 | | |
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The 14th
Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is the spiritual leader of Tibet. Since 1959 he
has been living in Dharamsala, in northern India, the seat of the Tibetan
government in exile.
Brute
force can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom. The thousands of
people who marched in the cities of Eastern Europe in recent decades, the
unwavering determination of the people in my homeland of Tibet and the recent
demonstrations in Burma are powerful reminders of this truth.