dalai lama

While we're all involved with the Democratic convention with Obama and McCain's pick later today, please make sure and keep the Dalai Lama in your thoughts and prayers.

He was hospitalized, yesterday, and while there's no indication that it's serious, his hospitalization was unscheduled. He had been suffering from exhaustion, and was admitted to hospital for abdominal pain.

I'm not a Buddhist, but I have read some books by the Dalai Lama (Tibet's exiled temporal and spiritual leader), and he makes some good points. He is a very wise and compassionate man, and all of us,...

Gerard Van Der Leun has a long and thoughtful post about why prayers are answered - or aren’t, as the case may be.

This is an interesting YouTube video of the three made at Mammouth Cave and based on Compassion:

a video on you tube of Merton, Ali, and the Dalai Lama

So, if your mom is named Emily then you get to choose an object, and if you choose the right object, you are to become the Island’s next Dalai Lama?

Would-be Commander-in-Chief Barack Obama has decided to get tough with the ChiComs. Really tough. Gloves off.

While I am in total agreement that the entire planet should boycott the Olympics in China, why didn't Hillary Clinton call for a boycott before this week?

She has had YEARS to protest the games because China is the biggest financial supporter of the Sudan which in partnership with the janjaweed is committing genocide in Darfur.

German chancellor, Angela Merkel, is the first world leader to announce she won't attend the Olympics in Beijing.

Her decision is based on China's crackdown of Tibet.

While I applaud her decision to boycott the games, I am disappointed it as taken this long and why it has taken this long.

I understand wanting to keep sports and politics separate, but when the participants are representing their country then it seems like the athletes are representatives of their respective countries in a politically peripheral way.