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Others head to the 350-foot-tall Buddhist stupa that local officials added five years ago—conspicuously designated as a “nonreligious site.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
The creature is occupied and controlled by Anida Yoeu Ali, a Cambodian-born artist who lives in Tacoma, Wash. Ali’s numerous performance-based exhibits explore her Cambodian-American identity and Buddhist and Muslim religions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Xi's visit was the target of protests by dozens of Tibetans in New Delhi, exiles like their Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, who has lived in India since fleeing a Chinese crackdown in 1959.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
Sri Lanka's Supreme Court overturned Thursday a presidential pardon granted to a hardline Buddhist monk and ordered him to serve the remainder of a six-year prison sentence for intimidating the wife of a missing cartoonist.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
As they climbed, Babi told them that Bamiyan had once been a thriving Buddhist center until it had fallen under Islamic Arab rule in the ninth century.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
At least 752 people are dead in Nepal, authorities there said, while 2,500 people are missing, many of them pilgrims who were visiting lakes in the area that Hindus and Buddhists consider sacred.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Hindus regard Kailash as the abode of deities Shiva and Parvati, while Tibetan Buddhists associate it with Mount Meru, which they say is the centre of the universe.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Tibetan Buddhists believe he is the 14th reincarnation of a spiritual leader first born in 1391.
From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 2026
Historians consider the relics the shared heritage of the Buddha's Sakya clan and Buddhists worldwide.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2025
Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds—some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even atheists!
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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