Here are the main news, analyzes and opinions of the day. Know all about the latest news and other updates from the Hindustan Times. ISKCON temple in Dhaka Bangladesh vandalized: report A mob of around 200 people reportedly vandalized the ISKCON Radhkanta temple in Dhaka, Bangladesh on Thursday, news agency ANI reported. Read more Bhagavad […]
This massive Hindu temple is a beacon of peace and has been under construction since 2010. It is open to the public and welcomes all. The largest Hindu temple in North America is said to be the huge Swaminarayan Akshardham located in Robbinsville, New Jersey. If you want to explore the rich Hindu culture without […]
BILLINGS – MetraPark announced Tuesday that rock band Halestorm will perform in Billings with special guests Stone Temple Pilots, Black Stone Cherry and Mammoth WVH. The concert at First Interstate Arena is scheduled for Wednesday, May 10. Advance tickets March 3 from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., with public ticket sales beginning March 4 at […]
Baylor Scott and White Medical Center in Temple set a record. Even balancing the added demands of COVID-19, doctors were able to help nearly 200 patients receive lifesaving organ transplants in 2021. This is a 25% increase from their previous record, which was established in 2017. Abilene’s Kevin Allen was one of 167 kidney transplant […]
Although the prairie state has many unique aspects, from its cities to its attractions to its natural beauty, some of its architecture is unlike anywhere else in the country. Located in Oak Park, you will find the most remarkable temple in Illinois. It’s a place that means so much that […]
Gov. Tom Wolf proposed a 5% funding increase for state-related universities, including Temple University, during his final budget speech on Feb. 8. | GOVERNOR TOM WOLF / COURTESY Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf proposed a 5% increase in funding for state-related universities, including Temple University, during his final budget speech on Tuesday. Pending approval by the […]
The Pulgas Water Temple is located at 56 Cañada Road in Redwood City. Pedestrian access is available from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. daily; the car park is open Monday to Friday and closed on weekends. A A leafy glade at the southeast end of Upper Crystal Springs Reservoir, on a country road east of […]
“faith, race, placeexplores how Pittsburgh’s fragmented religious landscape came into being and how historical divisions are confronted today. The Sri Venkateswara Temple in Penn Hills grew out of a series of dance classes in a basement in Squirrel Hill. A new U.S. immigration law in 1965 brought a wave of Indian professionals to Pittsburgh in […]
While several synagogues across the United States bear the name Temple Isaiah, the one in Palm Springs stands out as an architectural marvel like no other. The structure on West Alejo Road was designed in 1947 by E. Stewart Williams as the modernist Al Liberman Chapel before being expanded with a west-facing Brutalist addition designed […]
Welcome to the Real Estate Newsletter, where this week our stories celebrate California architecture at its greatest and its smallest. By big I mean big. In Koreatown, we explored the new Wilshire Boulevard Temple event space, a 55,000-square-foot pavilion described as a “three-story parallelogram draped in a honeycomb pattern.” Opening soon, the striking structure, paired […]
The Temple of Israel in downtown Wilmington is the state’s oldest Jewish place of worship. (Port City Daily / Amy Passaretti) WILMINGTON – The sentry standing at the corner of Fourth and Market streets is North Carolina’s oldest Jewish place of worship. The Temple of Israel is a beacon of history, a snapshot of Moorish […]
In recent weeks, the area around Al-Aqsa Mosque, known to Muslims as the Al-Aqsa compound and to Jews as the Temple Mount, has remained calm. Calm is deceptive. This 35-acre complex on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem’s Old City, one of the most politically flammable places in the Middle East, has seen an increase in […]
Archaeologists unearth an apsidal temple from the Buddhist period in the Bazira area of Barikot Tehsil, Swat. According to reports, the well-preserved four-meter-tall temple is 2300 years old and dates from the Buddhist period. Interestingly, archaeologists also discovered coins, an onyx seal, and many other pots and plates bearing ancient inscriptions. Ca’ Foscari University and […]
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WILMINGTON, North Carolina (WECT) – The Temple of Israel at 4th and Market Streets needs urgent repair, and the community urged to help raise the $ 500,000 needed to restore the nearly 150-year-old shrine . The Temple of Israel is the oldest Jewish place of worship in continuous use in the state of North Carolina […]
(RNS) – In recent weeks, the area around Al-Aqsa Mosque, known to Muslims as the Al-Aqsa compound and to Jews as the Temple Mount, has remained calm. Calm is deceptive. This 35-acre complex on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem’s Old City, one of the most politically flammable places in the Middle East, has seen an […]
Moshe Porat | Courtesy of Temple University Fox School of Business Former Temple University Fox School of Business Dean Moshe Porat was convicted of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud for using false data to improve the school’s national ranking . Porat, 74, a resident of Bala Cynwyd, conspired with statistics professor Isaac […]
Estimated reading time: 4-5 minutes If there is a gift that suits both the boys and girls in your family and keeps everyone equally entertained, most parents would be delighted. Gender norms aside, building sets are great entertainment for boys and girls, teens and adults. Suzanne Calton, owner of a Utah business, said her Latter-day […]
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Pittsburgh – The Tree of Life / Or The Simcha The congregation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania received a state grant to rebuild the synagogue, which was the site of the worst anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history. >> Read more trending news The $ 6.6 million grant will help rebuild the synagogue site into a new place […]
CARLY CIVELLO / TEMPLE NEWS On October 27, the United States Department of State announced that it had issued the first passport with an “X” gender marker, which represents non-binary, intersex, or gender non-conforming people. The gender marker “X” will become an option for all US passport applicants in 2022, CNN reported. Pennsylvania made the […]
A century-old sculpture of two Hindu gods was resettled in Kathmandu almost 40 years after it was stolen. A century-old sculpture of two Hindu gods has been relocated to his temple in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu, nearly 40 years after it was stolen and first appeared in the United States. The stone statue of the […]
On a thunder of tambourines, warm voices echoed throughout the small sanctuary of Robertsville on Sunday, November 14. Just under a dozen people stand up and share their struggles and gratitudes in conversational prayer, and more virtually join on Zoom. The number is smaller than most Sundays, but Kenneth Lawson, the longtime Church of God […]
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FREMONT – High in the Fremont Hills, a temple and meditation hall with hundreds of Buddha statues of all shapes and sizes, including a nine foot tall copper one in a woman’s garden. But they and other structures on the 29-acre yard – including a “Hindu God House,” greenhouse, treehouse, lodge, and residence – may […]
FREMONT – High in the Fremont Hills, a temple and meditation hall with hundreds of Buddha statues of all shapes and sizes, including a nine foot tall copper one in a woman’s garden. But they and other structures on the 29-acre yard – including a “Hindu god’s house,” greenhouse, treehouse, lodge, and residence – may […]
WESTMINSTER, Colorado (CBS4) – Construction of a new Lao Buddhist temple continues almost 10 years after a fire destroyed the place of worship that a community relied on to gather for cultural traditions and celebrations. (file photo credit: CBS) READ MORE: Annie Potts and Montana Jordan set to “get even more trouble” on brand new […]
Voinea Gratiani Miclescu (© Benton County Sheriff’s Office) A Vietnamese Buddhist temple in Rogers, Benton County, Arkansas, United States was recently robbed by six Romanian nationalists. The suspects were Marta Chicui, 36, from California, United States, Floarea Miclescu, 39, from California, Voinea Gratiani Miclescu, 40, from California, Francisca Velcu, 43, from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United […]
(RNS) – Six people were arrested this week and face charges of robbery, trespassing and third-degree assault at a Vietnamese Buddhist temple in Rogers, Arkansas, in what appears to be a growing trend of break-ins and robberies at Asian Buddhist temples across the country. The six people arrested in Arkansas, five women and one man, […]
FALL RIVER – The three monks received their vaccines on Sunday. The same goes for the only nun who also resides at the Khmer Buddhist Temple on Highland Avenue. “I am happy,” said Lompha Riph, a petite woman who shaves her head in a manner consistent with Buddhist tradition. A total of 68 people, mostly […]
Pisit Opnititanit left Thailand and eventually found his way to a few acres of land next to a cow pasture on Martin Bluff Road in Gautier, Mississippi. The Buddhist monk could have stayed in his home country, where 95% of the people practice Theravada Buddhism. Instead, his devotion led him to the Mississippi Gulf Coast […]
At gofundme.com The Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple in the Little Tokyo neighborhood of Los Angeles is rushing to rebuild and maintain a welcoming character following a vandalism incident on February 25. Following the attack, which damaged lanterns and a large window, the temple received an outpouring of support, with online fundraising reaching over US$90,000, more […]
The Higashi Hongan-ji Buddhist temple. From ktla.com Higashi Honganji, a Buddhist temple in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo neighborhood, was vandalized on February 25. In security camera footage, an unidentified, apparently white, 30-something man can be seen jumping over the security fences in front of the temple before smashing two metal lanterns, putting fire at their […]
Little Tokyo Buddhist temple break-in and alleged arson investigated for hate crime Police are investigating a hate crime against a Buddhist temple in Little Tokyo. LOS ANGELES – Police are investigating a hate crime against a Buddhist temple in Little Tokyo. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, someone broke into Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple […]
From irishexaminer.com In New York’s Queens neighborhood, an army of volunteers helps Buddhist monks from the United Sherpa Association, a nonprofit cultural organization created to promote and preserve Sherpa culture in the United States. The association has settled in a Buddhist temple and has been offering food to all those who need it since the […]
Jiang Xiaowei / SHINE Wang Fengshuo, a graduate in Buddhist studies at Harvard University’s Divinity School, teaches the philosophy of life and death from an Eastern and Western perspective. “You matter because of who you are. You count until the last moment of your life, and we will do everything we can, not only to […]
Image from gofundme.com A man was arrested for destroying three Buddha statues on Sunday April 5 at Wat Lao Santitham, a Buddhist temple in the town of Fort Smith, Arkansas. Shawn Michael Israel, 21, was caught by police cameras at the temple with a hammer in his hand. Israel is heard saying that the statues […]
A dispute over who controls the board of directors of Wat Lao Buddhavong, a Theravada Buddhist temple in Catlett, has caused deep divisions far beyond its walls, deeply reaching the Lao-American community in the Washington, DC area. The most visible expression of Theravada Buddhism in the United States for over three decades, Wat Lao Buddhavong […]
Inthichak was arrested and charged with trespassing on September 5, according to police records. He stayed with friends and spent one night in a homeless shelter. “It’s a very difficult time for me,” he said. His next court date on the trespassing charge is later this month. He is one of the many members of […]
A new place of worship meets the needs of Louisville’s growing Buddhist community and serves as a center for the preservation of Vietnamese culture, language and faith for the hundreds of immigrants who have made Louisville their home over the years. The new Buddha Blessed Temple, 7748 Third Street Road in the Iroquois Quarter, will […]
The Buddhist temple of Salinas has renewed its altar by looking back to its past and to the future. In the Buddhist tradition, the temple sent its altar to Japanese artisans to be restored on the occasion of its centenary. It was shipped last August and the artisans had it for nine months, repainting the […]
The Mahamevnawa Buddhist Monastery is the only Buddhist temple in the United Arab Emirates. At thenational.ae An unassuming villa in a bustling Dubai suburb is home to the UAE’s only Buddhist monastery, which since 2009 has become a focal point for the country’s burgeoning Buddhist population, currently estimated at half a million people. The Mahamevnawa […]
Entering the God De Buddhist temple on Nine Mile Road is truly a feast for the senses. The scent of thick and sweet incense fills the air. Monks dressed in yellow robes strike gongs and whisper eerily into Buddhist singing bowls, while singing in a haunting, almost hypnotic tone. A cornucopia of food fills the […]