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...This daily morning meditation, hosted by the graduate student sector of the Harvard Buddhist Community (HBC) and regularly offered since the mid-1980s, is part of a growing interest in Buddhism on campus and nationally. According to data collected in the American Religious Identification Survey, a study run by the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, the percentage of Americans who identified themselves as Buddhist doubled from 1990 to 2001 (0.23 percent to 0.53 percent). While a portion of these numbers comes from the immigrant Asian population, “there has also been a turn toward...
...gift of calm nothingness should thus be available to people of all religious persuasions. In fact, the Tranquility Room itself was set up by a previous tutor who was Ba’hai, according to Radich, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in Buddhist Studies. The room, the very name of which reflects its focus, exists not to spread certain religious or even philosophical beliefs, but to “provide a space for different ways people can step outside and look [at themselves,]” says Radich, “and meditation can do that regardless of whether...
...Harvard, Nguyen’s weeks are filled with activities within the Vietnamese community. In addition to BRYE, she is involved with her Buddhist Temple Youth group, the Vietnamese Student Association, a Vietnamese literature reading club and the Intercollegiate Vietnamese Student Association that spans New England. “I think that if there were more time in the day, I would definitely like to get involved in other ethnic organizations and get to learn about other cultures. Because there are only 24 hours in the day, I feel like I should be doing what I could for Vietnamese children...
...Nguyen tutors both Mondays and Thursdays in Dorchester. On Friday nights she attends her reading club and goes to bed early to prepare for a 5-1/2 hour teaching session that starts at 8 a.m. Saturday mornings at the Vietnamese Language School. On Sundays, she goes to her Buddhist Temple Youth Group until 4 p.m., so “there’s not much time left for partying...
...assigned to capture and kill "Butcher" Li (Jiang Wen), a once-respected army officer accused of treason because he refused to kill women and children in a raid. Lai Xi and Li make an uneasy truce long enough to escort a general's daughter (Vicky Zhao Wei) and a Buddhist monk to safety. Can they escape the pursuit of evil Master An (Wang Xueqi), the preening aesthete and superslick fighter who stands in their path...