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...Although I applaud the effort that went into selecting TIME's 100, it made me uncomfortable that the Heroes & Icons category, which listed the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela, also included Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mel Gibson. Schwarzenegger and Gibson became icons as film stars, and their real contributions to the world are mere pinpricks. Bronwyn Noble Madison...
While I applaud the effort that went into selecting TIME's 100, it made me uncomfortable that the Heroes & Icons category, which listed the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela, also included Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mel Gibson. Schwarzenegger and Gibson became icons as film stars, and their real contributions to the world have the importance of mere pinpricks. BRONWYN NOBLE Madison...
...barstools and cocktail shakers. There's plenty in the venue to remind him of a monastery, from a miniature butsudan shrine in the corner to Nepalese mandalas on the ceiling, the ever-present haze of incense and a powerful Bose woofer system playing the synthesizer-backed chants of Tibetan Lama Gyurme. Drinks cost up to $7 each and last orders are at 4:30 a.m. It may be a sinfully late hour, but it's also just in time for morning prayers...
When Tenzin Gyatso was born, in 1935, fewer than 2,000 Westerners had ever set foot in his remote and inhospitable country. No Dalai Lama had ever ventured outside Asia. Now, largely thanks to him, Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism are a cherished part of many a neighborhood. Since being driven into exile by Chinese troops in 1959, the Dalai Lama has set up more than 50 flourishing Tibetan communities in exile, overseen the transmission of his culture and its religion around the world and ensured that his homeland will have a life in many countries even as it is losing...
This process has not been easy. The Dalai Lama has made little headway in protecting the 6 million Tibetans who live in Tibet. And he has not been able to visit his own country in 45 years. Yet amid all he has lost, he has given something indelible to the world. He has shown that justice and nonviolence have a power of their own and converted the extremely rigorous precepts of his philosophy into lucid truths that people of any faith can learn from. And he has shown that globalism can be a way of taking seriously the idea that...