Murderer Executed with Nitrogen Gas in Method That Infringed on His Buddhist Breathing, Meditation Practice: Attorney
Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was put to death in Louisiana for the nearly three-decade old murder of Mary 'Molly' Elliott.
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Remembering China’s Empress Dowager Ling, a Buddhist who paved the way for future female rulers
The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...
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Buddhist death row inmate 'cruelly' executed with nitrogen was refused 'meditation'
Jessie Hoffman Jr, convicted of murder and rape, was executed by the state of Louisiana on Tuesday. His legal team tried to ...
Louisiana puts man to death in state's first nitrogen gas execution
Louisiana has used nitrogen gas to put a man to death, marking the first time the state has used that execution method ...
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Who will die on 'The White Lotus' season 3? Buddhist ethics give a clue — and Greg should watch out
Time in Buddhist philosophy doesn't work the same as time in Western philosophy. In the West, time is linear. Our lives have a fixed start date — birth — and end date — death. In Buddhism ...
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Remembering China’s Empress Dowager Ling, a Buddhist who paved the way for future female rulers
The source for the image was the popular Buddhist text, the “Lotus Sūtra.” She also attempted to put her own granddaughter on the throne after the death of her son. As I argue in my book ...
Louisiana puts man to death in its first nitrogen gas execution, his lawyer says
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch effort to block Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas, which is ...