China president stresses support for Panchen Lama

Chinese President Hu Jintao underscored Communist Party support on Thursday for the boy Beijing recognises as Tibet’s second-most important religious figure despite a different choice by the Dalai Lama.

Tibetan monks perform traditional dances and chants Friday

Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Gaden Shartse Monastery will present an evening of cultural performances featuring traditional dances, chanting and monastic debate Friday at 7 p.m. at the Coconino Center for the Arts, 2300 N. Fort Valley Road.

Why remember Panchsheel?

Who remembers the Panchsheel Agreement? Some might imagine some lofty dharmic principles enunciated by Nehru and the Chinese, who later in 1962 treacherously “stabbed us in the back.”

Monastery will remember tsunami victims, Buddhism

The Namgyal Monastery of Ithaca will be having a fund-raiser and prayer ceremony on Feb. 12 at 1 p.m. to benefit victims of the tsunami that swept South Asia earlier this year. The Monastery, located at 412 N. Aurora St. in Ithaca since 1992

A Buddhist holy man says hello in Hebrew

On the stage of the Tzavta hall in Tel Aviv, instead of amplifiers for electric guitars or other props for one of the fringe plays staged there, this time there were items of a different sort scattered about: a light-colored sofa with pillows