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Though Gore's aura of invincibility has been dented by his strange fund-raising adventures among Buddhist nuns, he remains the Democratic front runner; since Truman, no Vice President who has tried for it has been denied his party's nomination. If he is elected, Gore could bring to the job an extraordinary combination of qualities: he is smart, decisive and prepared (his father, Senator Albert Gore Sr., chose the job for him when he was a boy growing up on the eighth floor of a Washington hotel). He even has a core of convictions...
Though the course also looks at Native American, Christian and Jewish traditions, it emphasizes more the religious life of Asian-Americans--Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh and Jain--and the African-American and immigrant tradition of Islam...
...Buddhist monk self-immolated himself, would he be acting rationally within his own preference system, or would it be an irrational action explicable only by the draw of religion or culture...
...American really be a Buddhist, a person who stresses the abolition of desires, including that for a future life? Our whole capitalistic culture depends on individualism, whereas Buddhism looks upon the individual as an illusion. Buddhism asks us to become a different person, but most of us do not want to do that. I'm skeptical about the future of Buddhism in the U.S. ANGELO A. DE GENNARO San Antonio, Texas
Sandra Esner, co-founder of the Tibetan-American Resource Alliance, based in Langhorne, Pa., spent the afternoon shuttling three Buddhist monks between Drexel University, the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall, for activities scattered throughout...