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Anyone who has visited Paris' Parc des Princes stadium over the years has long anticipated the tragedy that former French national soccer goalie Bernard Lama last week lamented with a platitude wrapped in hindsight. "Everyone knew that when the first death from fan violence occurred in France, it would happen in Paris," commented Lama less than 24 hours after a supporter of his former team Paris Saint-Germain was shot and killed by plain clothes police officer trying to protect a young Jewish man from an anti-Semitic mob of nearly 150 marauding PSG fans. "All the elements were there...
...year in recent years. On Friday, Americans nation-wide doled out $8.96 billion on purchases—a six percent increase from the same day last year, according to Chicago-based consumer data collection firm ShopperTrak. Yet some view the consumption frenzy encouraged by Black Friday sales as problematic. Lama Surya Das, a Buddhist leader who heads the Dzogchen Center in Cambridge, views after-Thanksgiving sales as a “surfeit of materialism,” and instead advocates “Buy Nothing Day.” “I think we’re becoming somewhat...
...Jews honor holy places, but have no tradition of actually following in their [prophets’] footsteps.”In keeping with its ecumenical aspirations, the Abraham Path Initiative has been endorsed by a wide range of public figures—religious and otherwise. The Dalai Lama has given his approval, as has former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.“It would indeed be a dramatic demonstration of brotherhood if religious leaders and lay persons could join in re-tracing the route of their common ancestor, Abraham,” Carter has said, according to the project?...
...Each year as many as 3,000 Tibetans attempt the Himalayan crossing, hoping to join their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in India. China, which has systematically tried to erode the influence of Buddhism since invading Tibet in 1950, continually patrols the rugged region to prevent escapes. While there are occasional reports of border guards firing on refugees, this is the first time such an incident has been widely witnessed. Xinhua, China's state-run news service, quoted an unnamed official claiming that the guards were "forced to defend themselves." But Sergiu Matei, a climber and cameraman for Romania...
...think of the Lutheran student from the Midwest who found that the rationalism of the Dalai Lama opened to her a world of thought that was not only challenging, but compelling. I think of the student who wanted to write her term paper on women’s issues in Islam and discovered the breadth and power of Muslim feminist writers she didn’t know existed, the Muslim student who discovered the writings of Abraham Joshua Heschel, and the atheist who found that Buddhist philosophers didn’t “believe in God” either...