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...many Westerners, the most familiar figure in contemporary Buddhism is the Dalai Lama, the point man for Tibet's aspirations to escape Chinese control. But among American Buddhists, his Gelugpa teachings are equaled in popularity by those of the related Kagyu Karma, or Black Hat, sect. Hence the consternation -- "a lot of confusion and pain," says Terry Sullivan, spokeswoman for Karma Triyana Dharma Chakra Monastery in Woodstock, New York -- that is spreading in American Buddhist circles over an ugly and odd battle for the Black Hat leadership...
...guru took her message to the World Parliament of Religions this past summer when she spoke to more than 6,000 delegates, including the Dalai Lama. Ma is also an artist, and she recently presented her photographs of babies, children and adults with AIDS to Pope John Paul II in Rome...
...this is a dream. Seth is not in my room. Please end, horrible dream of mine. Get Seth out of my subconscious room." When finally he resigned himself to the fact that I was indeed in his room, he started to fling old pictures of His Holiness the Dalai Lama at me. I patiently weathered his storm and endured his cursings: I had to know what was going...
...Silence of the Lambs (as a SWAT team member). He had a few lines of dialogue in David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, but his biggest break came last year, when director Bernardo Bertolucci invited him to play the American father of a reincarnated Tibetan lama in Little Buddha, due to be released for Christmas...
...release of a colleague. Aung San Suu Kyi, winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, is in her fourth year of house arrest in Rangoon. "She continues to inspire the people of Burma," said Costa Rica's former President Oscar Arias Sanchez, flanked by Tibet's Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa (standing). Mikhail Gorbachev and Mother Teresa, also Peace Prize recipients, sent messages of support...