Buddhist Monks In Myanmar

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  3 Buddhist Monks Among 22 Shot Dead At Myanmar Monastery

  At least 22 people, including three Buddhist monks, were shot dead at close range in central Myanmar last week, according to a doctor's postmortem report, in what opponents of military

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  80-Year-Old Monk's Reappearance Brings Solace In Coup-Hit Myanmar

  When dawn arrives in normal times, 80-year-old Buddhist monk Maha Bodhi Myaing Sayadaw emerges from his meditation on the plains of northern Myanmar to silently receive food offerings from a handful of followers.

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  In Myanmar, Pro-Democracy Monks March Against Military Junta

  Scores of pro-democracy Buddhist monks took to the streets of Myanmar's second-biggest city Saturday, rallying against the military coup in demonstrations that coincided with the 14th anniversary of previous clergy-led mass protests.

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  15 Dead As Truck Carrying Buddhist Pilgrims Plunges Off Cliff In Myanmar

  Fifteen Buddhist pilgrims including a monk were killed after their flatbed truck plunged off a 300-metre (1,000 feet) cliff in eastern Myanmar, police said Tuesday, blaming faulty brakes

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  Protests In Myanmar's Rakhine State Opposing Rohingya Return

  Protesters in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state demonstrated on Sunday against the planned repatriation of Rohingya Muslims from Bangladesh, referring to them as "runaway refugees". About 100 people led by Buddhists monks marched through the state capital Sittwe holding red banners and chanting slogans.

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  Rise Of Violent Buddhist Rhetoric In Asia Defies Stereotypes

  Buddhism may be touted in the West as an inherently peaceful philosophy, but a surge in violent rhetoric from small but increasingly influential groups of hardline monks in parts of Asia is upending the religion's tolerant image.

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  Myanmar Monk Returns To Preaching After Ban, Denies Fuelling Rakhine Violence

  Myanmar Buddhist monk Wirathu said on Saturday his anti-Muslim rhetoric had nothing to do with violence in the western state of Rakhine, as he emerged from a one-year preaching ban.

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  Pope Francis To Meet Top Buddhist Monks In Myanmar, Address Military

  Pope Francis will meet Myanmar's top Buddhist monks, its military generals and Aung San Suu Kyi in November when he visits that country and Bangladesh, caught up in a crisis over Rohingya Muslim

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  Myanmar's Top Monks Parry Claims Of Buddhist Hardliners

  The body representing Myanmar's top monks has distanced itself from a vocal Buddhist nationalist group, in an unprecedented blow to the anti-Muslim network blamed for a surge in sectarian violence across the country.

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  Dalai Lama Urges Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi To Ease Rohingya Tension

  Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has a moral responsibility to try to ease tension between majority Buddhists and minority Rohingya Muslims, her fellow Nobel laureate, the Dalai Lama, said on Monday.

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  Myanmar Protesters Denounce Term 'Rohingya' Outside US Embassy

  Hundreds of demonstrators, including Buddhist monks, denounced the United States for its use of the term Rohingya to describe Myanmar's stateless Muslim community during a protest outside of the U.S. embassy in Yangon on Thursday.

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  Aung San Suu Kyi Urges Action on Illegal Use of Religion in Election Campaign

  Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi today urged the government to take action against people using religion to stir tensions as campaigning intensifies for landmark polls next month.

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  Hardline Monks and Myanmar's Opposition Clash in Social Media Row

  A war of words is being fought in Myanmar, largely over social media, between nationalist Buddhist monks and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party, highlighting divisions in the run-up to a general election on Nov. 8.

• Myanmar Buddhists Hold All-Sects Meeting

  The government's governing body for Buddhist monks is hosting its first conference in 19 years, bringing together the religion's nine main local sects at a time when there are rising concerns about Buddhist extremists targeting other religions.

• Bomb blast during sermon by radical Myanmar monk wounds five

  A bomb exploded metres away from a radical Buddhist monk as he delivered a mass sermon in Myanmar, police said on Monday, the latest flare-up as inter-religious tensions simmer.