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...that major hostilities haven't exactly ceased, it looks as if I'm headed for mothballs. I'll be lucky if I end up at the Smithsonian next to Calvin Coolidge's Indian headdress...
...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 Buddhism on the part of [non-Asian] Americans,” Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Diana L. Eck writes in her 2001 book, A New Religious America. The interest in Buddhism in America is mostly fueled by interest in meditation, which many perceive as a trendy and reliable form of stress relief. The image of Buddhism in popular culture is also often linked...
...really tired [of it].” But childhood frustrations often prove transient and fickle, and Howard is now doing exactly what she got tired of in elementary school. This Quincy resident is writing a thesis on a specific branch of Tibetan Buddhism for her Sanskrit and Indian Studies concentration...
...million Number of female fetuses and babies aborted or killed in India in the last century, as estimated by the Indian Census Commissioner
...piece of drama. The one thing that it does do is stimulate and challenge. Enticingly, the organizers are accompanying the run with panel discussions, film screenings, and a series of post-show sessions with activists and faculty members, including the ever-popular Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Diana Eck. This kind of coordinated planning is a great touch from SAA and BGLTSA, who understand that the true purpose of Gheri Dosti and its surrounding events is to get people to think. In this, they succeed marvelously...