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...potential reserves, with an estimated value of $128 billion, are spread over more than 600 sites on the Tibetan plateau, a remote and environmentally fragile area more than twice the size of Texas. The region is also politically sensitive. China invaded Tibet in 1950, and its leader, the Dalai Lama, later fled to exile in India. The Tibetan government in exile, which is based in the north Indian town of Dharamsala, has long accused Beijing of exploiting their homeland, a concern that has only been amplified by the new discoveries...
...communism; the way liberation theology in Latin America helped pave the way for new democracies; how Desmond Tutu and the South African churches served to inspire victory over apartheid; how "People Power" joined with the priests and bishops to bring down down Philippine strongman Ferdinand Marcos; how the Dalai Lama keeps hope alive for millions of Tibetans; and, today, how the growing Evangelical and Pentecostal churches of the global South are mobilizing to addresse the injustices of globalization...
...Gyuto monks, who went into exile with the Dalai Lama in 1959 upon China’s annexation of Tibet, currently reside in India. Although their numbers have dwindled from the standard 900 who had originally resided in Tibet’s capital city, Lhasa, the comparatively large group of young monks who have joined in exile have helped their membership to increase. They are among the most elite of all Tibetan monks, and their liturgical traditions some of the most esoteric. The monks’ multiphonic technique, in which individuals have the ability to produce up to three notes...
...stage, adorned with relatively few decorations and objects, was ultimately quite successful in evoking richly ornate Tibetan monasteries. A white table upstage bore the image of the Dalai Lama and a three-dimensional mandala and torma, ritual offerings usually made of yak butter or ground barley. One graduate student in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, a specialist in Tibetan Buddhism, speculated that the table served as a throne, with the Dalai Lama’s image acting as a manifestation of His presence...
With the help and encouragement of the Dalai Lama, Davidson recruited Buddhist monks to go to Madison and meditate inside his functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) tube while he measured their brain activity during various mental states. For comparison, he used undergraduates who had had no experience with meditation but got a crash course in the basic techniques. During the generation of pure compassion, a standard Buddhist meditation technique, brain regions that keep track of what is self and what is other became quieter, the fMRI showed, as if the subjects--experienced meditators as well as novices--opened their minds...