Monks

Source: cnews.canoe.ca --- 1 day ago
The saffron-robed Monks who spearheaded a bloody uprising last fall against Myanmar's military rulers are back on the front lines, this time providing food, shelter and spiritual solace to cyclone victims. ...

Source: news.nationalgeographic.com --- 18 hours ago
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Source: www.chron.com --- 1 day ago
KYI BUI KHAW, Myanmar — The saffron-robed Monks who spearheaded a bloody uprising last fall against Myanmar's military rulers are back on the front lines, this time providing food, shelter and spiritual solace to cyclone victims. ...

Source: www.spencersundell.com --- 18 hours ago
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve at least heard something about the current uprising in Tibet against oppressive Chinese rule and the resulting draconian crackdown, which began with the recent anniversary of the brutal 1959 invasion of Tibet. This photo emerged about one week ago, on iReport.com: As you can see, the photograph clearly shows [...] ...

Source: modernmonks.com --- 16 hours ago
The Monks are going to the Moon, the Crescent Moon, that is. The Good News is that a full barrel of Brothers’ Cup batch 4 is currently making the pilgrimage to Omaha. Once there, it will willingly sacrifice itself to save all thirsty revelers who are willing to accept it into their bodies. [...] ...

Source: www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk --- 10 hours ago
***DUE TO A TECHNICAL FAULT THESE RECORDINGS WILL NOT PLAY YET. JUST GOT THE POST READY FOR WHEN THE SOFTWARE BEHAVES ITSELF. AWAITING A CALL FROM HERR TONY PUPPY TO HELP SORT IT*** Offering Of The Savior Gompo / Invocation Of Gompo / A Buddha Prayer Offering To The Guru / Glorification Of The Past Buddha Four Gelugpa [...] ...

Source: khmerkrom.org --- 1 hour ago
By Mao Sotheany Radio Free Asia Translated from Khmer by Socheata Orginally posted on KI Media Thach Ngoc Thach, President of the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Federation (KKF) in the world, reacted to the fact that the Vietnamese government did not allow Khmer Kampuchea Krom representatives to participate in the Visak Bochea (Visakha) celebration in Hanoi. read more ...

Source: www.mytwodollars.com --- 1 day ago
It is estimated at at least 100,000 people have died in Burma from the cyclone that hit there last week. After Katrina and 9-11, the entire world came to our aid, and now it’s our turn to do something for these people who are getting no help from their own oppressive government. If you have [...] ...

Source: articles.moneycentral.msn.com --- 5 hours ago
RECOMMENDATION BY GLOBAL PROXY ADVISORY FIRM FOR INDEPENDENT CHAIRMAN APPLAUDED BY FILER ROBERT A.G. Monks NEW YORK, May 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Leading independent proxy advisory firm ...

Source: www.latimes.com --- 13 hours ago
The renowned 'orchestra of voices' is taking its dozen male singers on the road -- the state's historic Camino Real that links the mission sites. MOST California schoolchildren learn the basic facts about the state's mission history in the fourth grade. Established from 1769 to 1823 by Franciscan Monks from Spain to spread the Roman Catholic faith among the area's Native American population, the series of strategic-religious outposts spanned 650 miles of California coastline, from San Diego to Sonoma, providing Spain with a powerful presence on the Pacific frontier. Today, these monuments are among the state's oldest buildings and most popular tourist destinations. ...

Source: upandrunning.entrepreneur.com --- 17 hours ago
How’s this for a startup success story? Avaaz.org started 17 months ago. It now has more than 3.2 million registered active members and last week raised $1.5 million in aid for Burmese cyclone victims in three days. Recognizing some problems with flow of aid through normal channels, founder Ricken Patel connected with Burmese Monks to [...] ...

Source: www.amny.com --- 7 hours ago
Stars, films and parties descend on Cannes Just two days away from the official start of the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and we find ourselves roaming the tiny island of Saint Honorat, a hidden gem and home to a monastery where for 15 centuries French Monks have been living and praying in silence. ...

Source: www.bignewsnetwork.com --- 13 hours ago
2008 Cannes Film Festival and we find ourselves roaming the tiny island of Saint Honorat, a hidden gem and home to a monastery where for 15 centuries French Monks have been living and praying in silen... ...

Source: tibetanaidproject.org --- 7 hours ago
This year marked the 19th Monlam Chenmo (World Peace Ceremony) in Bodh Gaya, India, with over ten thousand Monks and nuns attending to practice on behalf of all humanity. They and thousands of lay people were the delighted recipients of 155,000 sacred texts, distributed for free. Produced by TAP and printed by the Yeshe De [...] ...

Source: ballotvox.prx.org --- 13 hours ago
Inside a confessional [two stout Monks / Flickr] Stephen M. Bauer from New Jersey calls himself an ordinary Catholic. A Catholic whose guilt, it seems, includes his pre-Iraq-war thinking (via Ann Raber): I am very disappointed in my own clarity of thinking just before the invasion of Iraq. Originally, I was opposed to an invasion of Iraq, [...] ...

Source: atypicalgirl.wordpress.com --- 16 hours ago
The Buddhist Monks have offered more assistance to the people than their own government. It’s hard for me to wrap my mind around big numbers, especially estimated death tolls.  This morning state-run radio in Myanmar (which is military-controlled) reports that an estimated 22,000 people perished in the weekend’s storm which bought with it a cyclone devastating [...] ...

Source: americanbuddhist.net --- 17 hours ago
May 13, 2008 Until recently, all that was popularly known of the mute military regime that has ruled Myanmar for 56 years was its aversion to civil rights and outside scrutiny, evidenced by the long confinement of the popularly elected Aung San Suu Kyi, the fate of Buddhist Monks who occasionally demonstrate in the streets, and its abiding reluctance to allow foreign observers into the country. All of that is par for the dictatorial course. A distaste for opposition and criticism can be understood, if not excused. But even repressive regimes can behave responsibly in the face of natural disaster. Myanmar's junta has revealed itself in the wake of Cyclone Nargis to be more deeply despicable than outsiders imagined. LINK TO ORIGINAL ...

Source: aliwlibdem.blogspot.com --- 12 hours ago
Burma (we don't call it Myanmar because that would show we excepted the legitimacy of the military government, which renamed the country Myanmar) enlists hundreds of thousands of child soldiers, commits ethnic cleansing against people from tribes that rebels come from, suppress political freedom and about every Human Right there is. Not long ago we saw the horror of the government's response to the Monks protests. Currently with about 100,000 dead from the cyclone and people so desperate for aid, the government is too suspicious of the west to let much aid in. It is horrific, they are once again murdering their own people. The USA has been acting as if it is giving the most aid, $3million. But the UK are giving $10million. Well done Nick Clegg for calling the international community to be tough with Burma and simply parachute aid down if Burma drags its heels. ...