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Then in 1999, nine months after President Clinton's impeachment, Sorkin's White House drama debuted on NBC. The aides were sexy, honorable and smart. The President was a folksy Nobel laureate with touches of F.D.R., Stephen Hawking, Will Rogers and the Buddha. The series was a hit, and in the glow of the characters' thousand-megawatt halos, TV's view of Washington--once typified by the evil FBI conspiracists on The X-Files--started to shift...
...whose arms and legs are covered with tattooed mantras and serpents. He dips a pointed, 60-cm silver rod into blue black ink infused with Chinese herbs and snake venom. With a steady rhythm, he delicately jabs Niwet Paopunsri, an auto mechanic, inscribing the words The Heart of Lord Buddha in ancient Khmer on the small of his back. (That's Pao's specialty; other monks draw animals or religious symbols.) Finished with the inscription, Pao whispers a prayer...
...tiger tattooed on his chest. He got into a tight spot and someone pointed a gun at him and pulled the trigger. The gun jammed. "The tiger did that," he says. In theory the tattoos shouldn't work for anyone who fails to lead his life according to the Buddha's precepts, which include nonviolence. But the monks admit that their tattoos tap into a power even they cannot fully explain...
Thich Nhat Hanh has published over 100 books, including the best-seller Living Buddha, Living Christ, an exploration of parallels between the teachings of Buddhism and Christianity...
...message is that peace, love and compassion are central to the teachings of Buddha and of Christ, and people of both faiths are engaged in this kind of practice,” she said. “We turn to these teachings from deep within our monastic traditions to give us instruction, practice and a path to practice peace...