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Thich Nhat Hanh is internationally known for his “engaged” style of Buddhism, “which seeks to bring Buddhism to bear on issues of social justice,” Austin said in her introductory remarks...
...Bamiyan's Buddhas survived for nearly 18 centuries. Genghis Khan did not touch them?he was quite tolerant of other religions. The Shia Muslim Hazara who live in the valley protected them, and adherents of Sufi Islam, a mystical sect with a wide following in Afghanistan, see echoes of Buddhism in their own practices. But last March, Taliban commanders flew in by helicopter. A public meeting was called, and the main speaker, then-Defense Minister Obaidullah Akhund?who reportedly surrendered to the new government last week and was set free?read a decree by Mullah Mohammed Omar, the movement...
Apple's secret, which doubtless comes from Jobs' early flirtation with Zen Buddhism, is knowing what to leave out, understanding that in the complex world of computers, less is way more...
...March this year, Muslim extremists, for ideas of their own about idolatry, used dynamite to "kill" the giant Buddhas in Bamiyan, in the high peaks west of the Afghan capital Kabul. While blowing up the statues - one of them near 55m tall - could not touch the tenets of Buddhism, the destruction of part of the world's cultural heritage caused widespread outrage. It highlighted the contrary nature of the "nation" of Afghanistan, a place forever falling apart under the weight of war, but which over millennia has also produced wondrous works...
...that doesn't mean he's not serious about being a monk. At his U.S.A. Shaolin Temple, housed in a funky third-story loft in lower Manhattan, Yan Ming instructs nearly 500 students in Buddhism and kung fu from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day. Eyes blazing, arms akimbo, voice roaring?picture Yul Brenner in The King and I?he exhorts his students to summon "more qi" and "train harder." "Occasionally" he admits, "I still forget that American students are different from Chinese. In China I could tell a kid to stand in the corner for two hours...