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Fox News' Brit Hume Says Tiger Woods Must Turn to Christianity

David Edwards and Gavin Dahl The Raw Story 01/03/2010
China's Panchen Lama voted VP of state Buddhism body: report

BEIJING — China's controversial choice as the second highest Tibetan spiritual figure, the 19-year-old Panchen Lama, was voted vice president of the nation's Buddhist Association Wednesday, state media reported.

Fox News' Brit Hume Says Tiger Woods Must Turn to Christianity

Buddhism is inferior to Christianity when it comes to forgiveness of sins, according to Fox News pundit Brit Hume. Tiger Woods should turn his back on Buddhism and become a Christian to be forgiven for cheating on his wife, Hume told Fox News' Chris Wallace Sunday.

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03/10/2009
Dalai Lama turns 74, says should live to 100

The Dalai Lama celebrated his 74th birthday Monday in a typically jocular mood, remarking lightheartedly that the prayers being said for him might help him live to at least 100.

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In China, A Different Brand of Buddhism

Maureen Fan Washington Post 02/18/2009
 
In China, A Different Brand of Buddhism

The Buddhists came by the busload to this partially frozen reservoir about 55 miles north of Beijing. In the morning, they released 53,000 fish into holes cut in the ice. In the afternoon, they walked clockwise around a bonfire in the courtyard of a windswept rural hotel, chanting incantations against evil as volunteers threw cooking oil, beans, fruit and cigarettes onto the flames.