Word: buddhists
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...which students will write a journal and interview one another. But on most campuses, rattled students have to fend for themselves. Mental-health services are mobbed; at Syracuse University there's now a 19-day wait to see a counselor unless it's an emergency. At Spirit Rock, a Buddhist meditation center in Northern California, attendance at teen meditation classes is up 30% since Sept. 11. Sophie Clavier, a lecturer at San Francisco State University, says her class in international relations has become "a group-therapy session." The students, she says, normally nervous about speaking up, "have been openly insecure...
...toward dreams of stardom as martial masters or celluloid action heroes. Most of the more than 20,000 students will return home after a few years to humble lives as security guards or construction workers. The fortunate few will be chosen by the abbot as monks, earning the Buddhist surname "Shi." They'll pay their dues at the temple by posing with tourists or welcoming state officials, and then they might become members of the exhibition troupe or go into business on their own, using Shaolin's cachet to open martial-arts schools elsewhere in China...
...days' notice. Mrs. Zhang, a mother-of-two who rented out rooms to visiting martial arts students, says she too wants the temple to look pretty for visitors but, left to bivouac on what used to be her living-room floor, she tearfully deems the project "obviously un-Buddhist." Yong Xin is less imposing when it comes to Shaolin's intangibles. If, as he claims, he practices kung fu every day, his pillowy physique has borne its rigors with baffling indifference...
...every rival ethnic and sectarian group, and stopped women from working or studying. Their interpretation of Islam was severe: thieves had their hands amputated; men were physically punished for not wearing beards. Omar the hard-liner was at the center of every decision, including the destruction of two giant Buddhist statues in Bamiyan earlier this year. The Taliban refused to surrender bin Laden after the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Washington's current threat still hasn't rattled Omar. The Taliban now says the Saudi millionaire should stand trial in Afghanistan...
...something normal." My ten-year-old patient recites the plot of every horror movie she has ever seen, complete with severed body parts. She acts out a puppet show in which scary monsters eat her, and then me. She wonders if kids can get drafted. My gentle Buddhist patient from China comes, sits quietly, says, "I never in my life heard of such a thing happening." I fight back tears because her simple observation captures our common experience...