10 December 2009
On Wednesday 9 December an orchestrated crowd of over 100 people created havoc at Phuoc Hue Temple, in Bao Loc, disrupting an official meeting with a diplomatic EU fact-finding delegation, and viciously threatening the Abbot
At about 8:45 in the morning of Wednesday, 9 December, a mob, supported and directed by [...]
(source: philstar.com)
December 02, 2009
HANOI (AP) – Followers of a famed Buddhist monk say they are continuing to suffer police harassment two months after they were forcibly evicted from a monastery in southern Vietnam.
UPDATE
Dec 1, 2009
Vietnamese government authorities hesitate to expel 330 Bat Nha monks and nuns from Phuoc Hue temple, but force 20 refugee Bat Nha monastics to flee Tu Duc temple, several hundred kilometres away in Khanh Hoa Province
Any discrimination against anyone on the basis of religion, ethnicity, nationality, gender or sexuality is against international law of human rights. This is especially so in the case of religion, because the international community has recognized the sacredness of the right to practice religion freely – as an individual and as a group.
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Wednesday, 30 September 2009
Four years ago the Zen master, Thich Nhat Hanh, a monk who popularised Buddhism in the West, was invited by the Vietnamese government to return home after 39 years in exile.
The move was seen as a sign that the authorities were becoming more tolerant of religion, a very sensitive issue [...]
September 29, 2009
10.00pm, Vietnam Time (VN): More police have arrived – all are uniformed. They are threatening the Abbot, and are trying to remove a small group of at least 15 monks and nuns
9.10pm, VN: One hundred police are now attempting to forcefully remove monks and nuns from Chùa Phước Huệ temple, Bảo Lộc
8.30pm, VN: [...]
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The Miracle of Sangha
This letter was written by Brother Phap Xa, one of our young monastic brothers at Prajna Monastery. He was ordained at Prajna in the Plum Village tradition at the age of fourteen. It comes to us by way of Sr. Dang Nghiem.
Fragrant Palm Leaf, July 24th, 2009.
I return to the familiar corner [...]
“Thay is not worried about you, but it does not mean that Thay is not paying attention to you.
Thay is not worried about you because Thay has confidence in you.
Thay has the confidence that you can behave true to the Dharma in challenging and difficult circumstances.
And you have proven that you can do it. [...]