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...throughout its 22-year history, the Thursday morning magazine has faithfully tracked the off-beat interests of Harvard students and has kept them in touch with the trends of pop culture, ranging from Buddhism...
...magazine also began to feature more off-beat journalism, including a report on "Buddhism for the Upwardly Mobile" in 1986. The introduction of the "Endpaper" section gave a forum for Crimson writers to relate personal experiences. Occasionally, the magazine ran politically oriented pieces, such as "Jews at Harvard...
This is a particularly vexed matter because Tibetan Buddhism is an unusually charged and esoteric set of practices uncommonly difficult to translate, "a unique blend," as the Buddhist scholar Christmas Humphreys once wrote, "of the noblest Buddhist principles and debased sorcery." Its core, as with all Buddhism, is a belief in suffering and emptiness, and the need for compassion in the face of those. But unlike the stripped-down austerities of Zen, say, Tibetan Buddhism swarms with animist spirits, vivid symbolic depictions of copulating bodies, and Tantric practices of magic and sexuality that, taken out of context or practiced without...
...quite independent" have left him somewhat powerless as all kinds of questionable things are done in the name of his philosophy (a prominent lama was slapped with a $10 million sexual-harassment suit in California). And his wish to make peace among the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism has so infuriated a few that earlier this year three members of his inner circle were found murdered in their beds, apparently by a breakaway sect...
...reincarnation of the 14th Dalai Lama, logically, will not be a reincarnation that disturbs, or is an obstacle to, that work. Quite clear, isn't it?" In any case, he says cheerfully, "at a certain state the Dalai Lama institution will disappear. That does not mean that Tibetan Buddhism will cease. But the institution comes and goes, comes and goes...