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  2. Kirtanananda Swami - Wikipedia

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    Kirtanananda Swami [1] (IAST: Kīrtan-ānanda Svāmī; September 6, 1937 – October 24, 2011), [2] also known as Bhaktipada, was a convicted criminal, Gaudiya Vaishnava false guru and the co-founder of New Vrindaban, a Hare Krishna community in Marshall County, West Virginia, where he served as "spiritual leader" from 1968 until 1994.

  3. Waddell Buddhist temple shooting - Wikipedia

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    Robbery. In the early hours of August 10, 1991, a mass shooting occurred at Thai Buddhist temple Wat Promkunaram (Thai: วัดพรหมคุณาราม; RTGS: Wat Phrom Khunaram) in Waddell, Arizona, killing nine people. At the time, this was the deadliest mass shooting at a place of worship in U.S. history, until it was paralleled ...

  4. New Vrindaban - Wikipedia

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    New Vrindaban is an unincorporated area and an ISKCON (Hare Krishna) intentional community located in Marshall County, West Virginia, United States, near Moundsville. [2] The town consists of 1,204 acres (4.87 km 2) (0.1 km² of which is water), [3] and several building complexes, homes, apartment buildings, and businesses including the Sri Sri Radha Vrindaban Chandra Temple (RVC Temple) and ...

  5. Henepola Gunaratana - Wikipedia

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    Exchange. General Buddhism. v. t. e. Bhante Henepola Gunaratana is a Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist monk. He is affectionately known as Bhante G. [1] Bhante Gunaratana is currently the abbot of the Bhavana Society, a monastery and meditation retreat center that he founded in High View, West Virginia, in 1985. [2][3][4] He is the author of the ...

  6. Murder of Arthur Warren - Wikipedia

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    J.R. (nickname) Known for. Homicide victim. The Arthur Warren murder was the killing of 26-year-old American Arthur Carl ("J.R.") Warren Jr. on July 4, 2000, by two male teens. According to Liz Seaton of the Human Rights Campaign, it had all the earmarks of a hate crime. [citation needed]

  7. Buddhism and violence - Wikipedia

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    — Kakacūpama Sutta, Majjhima-Nikāya 28 at MN i 128-29 Buddhism encompasses a variety of traditions, beliefs and spiritual practices largely based on teachings attributed to Gautama Buddha. Nirvana is the oldest and most common term for the end goal of the Buddhist path and the ultimate eradication of duḥkha —nature of life that innately includes "suffering", "pain", or ...

  8. 2020 Williamsburg massacre - Wikipedia

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    Perpetrator. Oreanna Myers. On December 8, 2020, in Williamsburg, West Virginia, United States, 25-year-old Oreanna Myers shot and killed five children, aged between one and seven, with a shotgun before setting her house on fire and committing suicide. Myers was the biological mother of three of the children, and the stepmother of the other two.

  9. Radhanath Swami - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Singing kirtan at Radha Gopinath Temple. Radhanath Swami (IAST: Rādhānātha Svāmī) (born 7 December 1950) [1] is an American Hindu Gaudiya Vaishnava guru, community-builder, activist, and author. He has been a Bhakti Yoga practitioner and a spiritual teacher for more than 50 years. [2]