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Myanmar Court Sentences 3 Men to Jail for Insulting Buddhism – Video
Posted: March 25, 2015 at 12:47 pm
Myanmar Court Sentences 3 Men to Jail for Insulting Buddhism
This week, a Burmese court sentenced three men to two and a half years in jail for posting an #39;offensive #39; image of Buddha to their bar #39;s Facebook page.
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15.03.2015 – Basic Buddhism & Meditation – #2 – Video
Posted: March 24, 2015 at 9:48 pm
15.03.2015 - Basic Buddhism Meditation - #2
Many of us may have heard of Buddhism and seen rituals being conducted. What and Who are the Triple Gem? How is basic meditation practised? Join us as we explore and understand the basic ...
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20,March 2015 – Indian government to give special attention towards Buddhism – Video
Posted: March 23, 2015 at 4:46 pm
20,March 2015 - Indian government to give special attention towards Buddhism
20,March 2015 (ANI) - India #39;s junior Interior Minister Kiren Rijiju says the government will focus on Buddhism, a religion which has origins in the country.
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A Brief History of Theravada Buddhism – Video
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A Brief History of Theravada Buddhism
The development of Theravada Buddhism throughout the last twenty five and a half centuries.
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My Introduction to Buddhism – December 2013 – gotts2juice – Video
Posted: March 22, 2015 at 3:48 am
My Introduction to Buddhism - December 2013 - gotts2juice
While sorting out my camcorder, I found this old video blog from December 2013 (3 month after my best friend died) and its about Buddhism so apologies if that #39;s not your thing. Amazing how...
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Interfaith Spirituality Buddhism – Video
Posted: March 20, 2015 at 7:47 pm
Interfaith Spirituality Buddhism
Representatives from the Midwest Moon Sangha talk about and demonstrate Buddhist meditation.
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PM Modi talks about relevance of Buddhism in ‘terrorized world’at Mahabodhi society – Video
Posted: March 19, 2015 at 7:48 pm
PM Modi talks about relevance of Buddhism in #39;terrorized world #39;at Mahabodhi society
Colombo, March 13 (ANI): While addressing at the Mahabodhi society in Colombo city of Sri Lanka, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday talked about the relevance of Buddhism in a world filled...
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Herbie Hancock: Buddhism and Creativity | Mahindra Humanities Cent – Video
Posted: March 17, 2015 at 8:48 am
Herbie Hancock: Buddhism and Creativity | Mahindra Humanities Cent
Tonight on PBS, I #39;m joined by Herbie Hancock, who over a fifty-year-plus career has established himself as one of the towering figures in music. He #39;s excelle...
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Burma Jails New Zealander for Insulting Buddhism in Facebook Post
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TIME World Burma Burma Jails New Zealander for Insulting Buddhism in Facebook Post Soe Zeya TunReuters Phil Blackwood, a bar manager from New Zealand, comes out of court after being sentenced to two and half years in prison, at Bahan township court in Yangon on March 17, 2015. Two Burmese were also jailed in what critics deem the latest instance of spiraling religious intolerance in the Southeast Asian nation
A Burmese court sentenced a New Zealand citizen and two Burmese nationals to 2 years in prison with hard labor for posting a promotional advert on social media that depicted the Buddha wearing headphones.
State prosecutors claimed the image posted last year on the Facebook page of V Gastro bar, where Phil Blackwood worked as the general manager, was an insult to the Buddhist religion.
The establishment later issued an apology for causing offense, but Blackwood, along with the bars Burmese owner Tun Thurein and manager Htut Ko Ko Lwin, were arrested on Dec. 10 and have been held in Rangoons notorious Insein Prison ever since.
Ahead of Tuesdays decision, the visibly disheveled Blackwood still appeared optimistic.
Well, hopefully a bit of justice is going to happen, Blackwood told the BBC as he was frog-marched into court by police.
Hours later, activists panned the decision that they say further erodes freedom of expression and promotes growing religious intolerance in the former military state.
That these three men acted in a culturally insensitive way by posting the Buddha with headphones image on Facebook is obvious, but that is nothing they should have been hauled into court for, much less sent to prison, said Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director of Human Rights Watch.
Burma has been rocked by myriad bouts of ethnosectarian violence pitting Buddhist extremist against the nations tiny Muslim minority since the countrys ruling military junta unveiled political reforms in late 2011.
The nationalist movement, known locally as 969, has helped bolster a growing wave of Buddhist chauvinism throughout the country. Nevertheless, over 90% of respondents to a poll conducted by local media outlet DVB said the V Gastro trio did not deserve to be jailed.
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Make Buddhism Incusive of your Black Heritage: by Anthony "Amp" Elmore – Video
Posted: March 16, 2015 at 3:45 pm
Make Buddhism Incusive of your Black Heritage: by Anthony "Amp" Elmore
Anthony "Amp" Elmore lives in Memphis, Tennessee. He is President and founder of the "Proud Black Buddhist World Association. Elmore begin studying Zen Buddh...
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