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Seven Tibetan nuns from the Keydong Thuk-che-cho-ling Nunnery in Nepal visited Harvard on Friday for a combination of cultural and political events hosted by Students for a Free Tibet and the Divinity School's Buddhist Community...
...know that non-Western males, particularly in anthropological studies in Africa, Asia and Nepal, who hunt or grow their food for a living, have significantly lower testosterone levels than Western males," says Bribiescas. "We think energy intake has something to do with this...
...their communities. The establishment of branches is critical--it makes our impact permanent and it is the means through which we instill in students a strong sense of social responsibility. In the last three years, VISIONS delegates have reached almost 20,000 students through education efforts in India and Nepal; but it is the establishment of two student-run chapters in Bangalore and Mumbai (Bombay), India, that will have the greatest impact on the community. Next summer, we will send four more delegations of students to India, Nepal and Africa...
...beyond. There is the Getty Grant Program, which has given out some $63 million since 1984 to support worldwide research in the history and conservation of art--projects ranging from computer-aided studies and reconstructions of half-effaced 8th century Mayan murals to the conservation of monastery temples in Nepal...
According to fliers that organizers handed out at the talk, more than one million Tibetans have been killed since the Chinese invasion in 1950. About 120,000 Tibetans are now living as refugees in Nepal, India and the rest of the world. Five million Tibetans remain in Tibet...