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...Forum, a relatively new organization which has drawn substantial involvement from just about every student religious group on campus. The group has been meeting since last May to organize itself and to plan interfaith activities. Last semester we put together a panel discussion which included student representatives from the Buddhist Community, the Catholic Student Association, Hillel and the Humanist chaplaincy...
Indeed, Smolan's site gave few indications that cyberspace is anything but a realm of bliss. Among the thousands of images that streamed into San Francisco were ghetto kids in California playing computer games, Buddhist monks spreading the word online and wheelchair-using students in Thailand communicating with disabled kids all around the world...
According to Esquire magazine, Courtney Love has been crisscrossing the country seeking a resting place for husband Kurt Cobain's ashes. This summer she left two handfuls at a Buddhist monastery in Ithaca, New York, where monks performed consecration rituals on them. However, she seems to have forgotten to pick them up. The monks have delivered them to an undisclosed location. Says a monastery official: "We're not a cemetery. We're no Graceland." Well, actually, neither is Graceland. Here is where other famous rockers have permanent residence...
...WEAK LIGHT OF DAWN ONE morning last week, hundreds of Buddhist monks gathered at the Jokhang temple in Lhasa to select a new Panchen Lama, the second highest religious leader in Tibet. Traditional yak-butter lamps glowed as three ivory markers were placed inside a golden urn. Each marker was inscribed with the name of a Tibetan boy identified, during a six-year search, as a possible incarnation of the 10th Panchen Lama, who died in 1989. The urn was turned several times, and then a senior monk withdrew a marker bearing the name of Gyaincain Norbu...
...more than happy about the release of Burma's chief dissident, Aung San Suu Kyi, after six years of house arrest [BURMA, July 24]. She is the only person who can bring peace to Burma. With her humanitarianism, intellect and Buddhist gentleness, she brings a hitherto unseen sophistication to the politics of her country. The people of Burma deserve a better future. I only hope they will have the patience that will be needed for change. LINDA SCHWARTZ Adliswil, Germany...