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Be Your Own Buddha - Be Your Own BuddhaBuddha Purnima is the day Gautam Buddha was born, attained enlightenment, and entered Nirvana. On this pious day, the moon glows brighter and bigger than usual. Watch the moon on the...

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi delivered the keynote address on the occasion of Vesak Global Celebrations on Buddha Poornima through video conference today. Members of Venerated Mahasangha, Prime Ministers of Nepal and Sri Lanka, Union Ministers S

A three-day digital program, the US Book Show–which lies on the calendar where BookExpo did–is announcing panel discussions, with programming to include exhibtion and networking. Image – iStockphoto: R Classen Layouts Early Bird Tickets Now on Sale Not long after ReedPop “retired” BookExpo in December, it was announced that a “new American publishing trade fair” would be put into place. Today (April 14), the US Book Show, that stand-in for what had been the long-running BookExpo, ...

Tirreno Tidbits and Nice Notes Share this story Photo by Bas Czerwinski/Getty Images It’s Ronde van Vlaanderen season, don’t you know? So yes, I am here to write about the week’s ongoing races, all of which are nice little practice events for the Ronde van Vlaanderen. Tirreno-Adriatico Best Bet I am guilty of writing off these races, even one that goes through central Italy, for lack of interest and need of sleep, but the fact is that both races have provided plenty of reasons to stay tun...

Print article As of late December 2020, the COVID-19 figures in this country are genuinely scary: 18 million cases and 328,000 deaths. In the world, there have been 78 million cases and 1.7 million deaths. Science has done an extraordinary job of creating three vaccines within nine months, all of which have efficacy rates in the 90-95% range. There is every reason to hope that within a year, the virus will be on the run, if not in wholesale retreat. I do not wish to talk about the science; th...

December 16, 2020 NORTH DELTA – Local parents Leonard Durry and Evan Takada, practising Buddhists and parents of Avyda Durry-Takada, age 8, have been stymied by their daughter’s total lack of interest in receiving gifts for Christmas. “I grew up with presents under the tree,” said Durry. “It’s not a religious thing for us, obviously, but it is a nice tradition to wake up to and be excited in the morning. To see Avyda practising the Eightfold Path warms our heart, but it would be nic...