Africa: Buddhist "Fire and Water" ritual (video)

AFP, March 5, 2012; Wisdom Quarterly

(LINK) African Buddhists come together in Kenya with female Japanese master Shinso Ito, head of the Shinnyo En Order

More than 300 religious and spiritual leaders from around the world, Kenyan musicians, dancers, and tribal elders gather for Africa's first Buddhist "Fire and Water" ritual to nurture spiritual awakening.

Venerable (Bhante) Buddharakkhita, Uganda Buddhist Centre,
 is planting Dharma seeds in Uganda, Africa

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India plunged into darkness

Wisdom Quarterly

Sitting in the dark (washingtonpost.com)

A portion of the population larger than the United States was thrown off the electrical grid yesterday as India suffered a massive but mysterious blackout. Its origins were unknown but eventually corrected in the five Indian states affected. Power had to be drawn from what was until recently the last Himalayan Buddhist kingdom, Bhutan. Then today the blackout grew more massive now involving half a billion people, and still the cause is unknown. With private generators some small portions of the capital are operating. But the vast majority of citizens is suffering in sweltering heat with no end in sight. Is it due to a mass coronal ejection from a solar flare, which like a pulse weapon can easily destroy a grid, or might it be a planned attack to see how a large populace would fare in a power outage?

• Day 2 of India's blackout hits half the population
• 600,000 million people without power in India

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