News Round Up for w/e 16th September 2022

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How Ancient Greeks Spread Buddhism to the Known World Buddhism is practiced in various parts of the world and the Ancient Greeks played a significant role in the mission of spreading it.

Buddhist “Teraverse” Under Development for Forthcoming Metaverse Teraverse, a project based at Kyoto University’s Institute for the Future of Human Society (IFOHS), aims to bring Buddhism to the forthcoming “metaverse,” an initiative heralded by Mark Zuckerberg of Meta Platforms.

Finding Freedom: The Death Row Journey of Jarvis Jay Masters Susan Moon on the spiritual journey of Jarvis Jay Masters, a Buddhist practitioner on death row at San Quentin Prison.

Buddhist monks that support the military junta in Myanmar Buddhism is known for meditation and its pacifist philosophy, but this does not stop some monks like the octogenarian Sitagu Sayadaw from supporting the military junta that has plunged Myanmar into a spiral of violence since it seized power in a coup in 2021.