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Edited by John Helliwell, Richard Layard and Jeffrey Sachs We live in an age of stark contradictions. The world enjoys technologies of unimaginable sophistication; yet has at least one billion people without enough to eat each day. The world economy is propelled to soaring new heights of productivity through ongoing technological and organizational advance; yet is relentlessly destroying the natural environment in the process. Countries achieve...

 Date: 27th ? 29th Nov. 2011Arranged by-Shakyamuni Kapilvastu Buddha ViharPlace: Panchayti Dharamshala.Sri Ganganagar,Rajasthan, India ? IntroductionIn during the whole retreat was going on how can understand reality and generate happiness for own self and other. Second thing how we make World view and take responsibility for make better life and community. If we are Buddhist practitioner than how can understand our personal, social and universal responsibility gives...

28-29 October, 2011 at YRDP ORGANISED BY THE WORKING GROUP FOR PEACE AND AFSC ? INTRODUCTIONS Muny and Russell gave a welcome on behalf of AFSC and thanked YRDP for providing their office as a venue for the workshop.   Russell introduced the facilitator Charmaine Bacongo (known as Eks-Eks), who is an experienced peace worker from the Balay Mindanaw Foundation in The Philippines.  She is visiting Cambodia both to...

  ? People's Dhammayatietra for Friendship and Harmony between Cambodia and Thailand at Aranya pradet, Sakaew Province. Thailand14-16 May 2011

May 22, 2011 ?  Cambodian and Thai Buddhists and those who are concerning about harmony between Cambodian and Thai joined to celebrate the Buddha?s Day (Visakha Puja) by conducting Dhammayietras and ceremonies in order to cultivate peace and harmony between Cambodian and Thai and to pay gratitude to the Buddha who showed the way to peace and to remind people about Dhammic practice. The walk...

Sat, 21/05/2011 - 17:53 | by prachatai Lisa Gardner In April 1992, a small band of Cambodian refugees marched alongside orange-swathed monks, as they slowly made their way across the Thai-Cambodian border. So began the first of what would become known as an annual Dhammayatria, or 'procession for peace'. ? Earlier this week, responding to the recent escalation in troop manoeuvres and fighting at the contested border near the site of...

Thai Buddhists march from Wat Mai Sai Thong in Sa Kaeo on Visaska Bucha Day to greet a Buddhist group from Cambodia at the Thai-Cambodian Friendship Bridge that links the countries. The pilgrims believe dharma can bring a peaceful solution to the border conflict around the site of Preah Vihear temple. Video by Jetjaras Na Ranong. For Videos Click here ? credit : http://www.bangkokpost.com/multimedia/vdo/237650/walk-for-peace

SA KAEO, May 16 -- A Thai Buddhist group and its Cambodian counterpart joined with 'Dhamma Yatra' Buddhist pilgrims to urge their compatriots to use dhamma as a means to end the armed conflict between the two neighbouring countries. Dhamma, the teaching of the Lord Buddha, joined with Yatra means walk, so Dhamma-yatra is a Dhamma walk or march. The Thai Buddhist group led by Sulak Sivaraksa,...

Nagaloka is situated in Nagpur, in the centre of India. It is also the centre of the new BuddhistMovement for the very fact that Dr. Ambedkar converted there on 14th October 1956 with500,000 followers largely from the most oppressed sections of society ? formerly known asuntouchables and now known as Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Castes.  

The EDE at Wongsanit begins with its famous canal crossing, a rite of passage all participants must navigate. With a step of faith onto what seems, initially, a very unstable raft, they pull themselves across, by an assortment of ropes and pulleys, to the welcoming trees, water lily ponds, traditional wooden accommodations and the gracefully roofed adobe class room of Wongsanit Ashram

A personal reflection from my visit to Myanmar (19-24 October 2009). By Sombath Somphone The military junta in Myanmar? is not much different from the Lao People?s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) in its first 15 years after coming into power in 1975.  In those years, it was obsessed with maintaining stability and power militarily, politically, socially, and economically over all aspects of the Lao society.  However, the LPRP...

by Jonathan Watts The 2009 INEB conference saw an unprecedented representation of Japanese engaged Buddhists. Since the dissolution of INEB Japan with the death of Rev. Suzuki Ryowa in 2004 and the gradual withdrawal of other members from INEB activities, Japanese participation has been slight over the past three conferences. This small number also reflecting problems among Japanese Buddhists in understanding INEB and the nature...