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    NOBEL CAUSE A group of Nobel laureates including the Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mother Theresa, and Desmond Tutu convened in Bangkok early this year to protest the detainment of fellow laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, currently in her fourth year of house arrest in Myannmar (formerly Burma). The State Law and Order Restoration Council seized control of Myanmar in 1988 after killing hundreds of members of Suu Kyi's Burmese Democracy movement. A Montreal-based group, the International Center for Human Rights and Democratic Development, brought the Nobel Peace Prize recipients to Thailand along with representatives of Amnesty International and the American Friends Service Committee. More »
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    After collapsing onstage four years ago, singer-songwriter Alejandro Escovedo is back in the recording studio. Showing true dana-paramita, several musicians, including Steve Earle, John Cale, and Lucinda Williams, compiled “Por Vida,” a tribute album, in 2004, to help Escovedo pay his mounting medical bills for treatment of hepatitis C. Deeply touched, but still ailing, Escovado turned to Buddhism as a way to make peace with his suffering. Finally, he visited an acupuncturist who informed him that his prescribed medicine was eating away at his bone marrow.More »
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    The Pope: Part II In the Winter 1994 issue,“Tricycle”reported on the response of the Catholic Church to the rise of Buddhism in Italy. That article, based in part on “Why So Many Religions?” - an advance chapter of Pope Paul II’s new book,“Crossing the Threshold of Hope”(Knopf) - represented the Pope’s views regarding non-Christian religions as being in alignment with those of the Second Vatican Council of 1962�66 - in other words, moderate. Since that time,“Crossing the… More »
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    Korean Researcher Hwang Woo-suk talks about his work and his practice.More »