Winter 1999
Vol. 9, No. 2
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A Buddhist and one of America’s preeminent African-American writers applies the suffering of the first noble truth to the suffering of blacks in white America, and traces the history of Dharma among black artists.
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The Buddha predicted that his birthplace would become one of four places that “men of belief” would visit, but today, modern-day politics grow amidst the ruins and faster than new monasteries.
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Forty years after the Chinese invaded Tibet, Orville Schell looks back to 1904 when Colonel Francis Younghusband led a British expeditionary force into the holy city of Lhasa. Despite many brutal losses, the Tibetans and their culture remained largely unchanged, but Younghusband was never the same .
