Martin Goodson
News Round Up w/e 26th September 2020
News & snippets from Zen cyber-space.
Two Science-Backed Ways to Ease a Worried Mind: Our brains are wired to worry. Here’s what the research says about how to mindfully calm your worried mind.
A Zen Priest at Harvard Finds the Key to Happiness. Robert Waldinger is a Zen priest and leader of the longest-running study of human happiness. As Andrea Miller tells us, he’s found that science and Buddhism agree on what makes life happy and meaningful.
Book Review: Thriving in Crisis: Buddhism and Political Disruption in China, 1522–1620.
Buddhists in Hawai‘i Lead Bell-ringing for International Day of Peace. Buddhists from the Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawai‘i led a virtual global bell-ringing yesterday in celebration of Peace Day, a state holiday in Hawai‘i that coincides each year with the United Nations International day of peace.
Revisiting the Old Silk Road. According to Deepankar Aron’s new book called On the Trail of Buddha: A Journey to the East, hundreds of thousands of people travelled freely between India and China once, contributing to the spread of Buddhism all over the east Asian region.
China razes 1,000-year-old Buddhist temple. In the latest act of religious oppression, China has demolished a 1,000-year-old Buddhist temple in its Shanxi province. India Today's OSINT team delves deep to find out the truth through the latest satellite images.