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Beware of men in robes. Fallen spiritual figures are in painfully plentiful supply these days, and as a sprawling new history of the San Francisco Zen Center shows, the list of faiths bedeviled by them very definitely includes Zen Buddhism?in particular, the unique American variety of it that sprang into being...
...frosh weekend, Richard T. Halvorson ’03, a philosophy and government concentrator in Pforzheimer House, dragged the people he’d met that day to meetings of the Harvard Secular Society. Raised a Catholic, Halvorson was fascinated by Buddhism and secular humanism in high school, yet Christianity beckoned. Halvorson, drawn to what he saw as the historical validity of the New Testament and the answers it offered to his philosophical questions, made a decision to become a Christian the summer before he arrived at school...
...aspects of student life at Harvard that encourage such a change. “The preoccupation with wealth and the focus on rather dismal ‘realist’ theories in class has prompted me to seek out the ideals of acceptance and not-wanting and compassion in Buddhism,” says Roxanna K. Myhrum ’05, who made the decision to become a Buddhist shortly before coming to college...
Thich Nhat Hanh has also written extensively on the use of Buddhism to help with personal issues, including depression, and family and relationship issues...
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...