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...beginning the Buddha found enlightenment underneath the bodhi tree, near what is now Nepal. A pampered prince born around 563 B.C., he frustrated his father's efforts to shield him from the sights of suffering and death, became a wandering holy man and eventually formulated the Four Noble Truths that unite all Buddhists today: that life is full of suffering; that most of that suffering, including the fear of death, can be traced to "desire," the mind's habit of seeing everything through the prism of the self and its well-being; that this craving can be transcended, leading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUDDHISM IN AMERICA | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

...placed on the web site. If the 124th Editorial Guard takes this crucial step, The Crimson will be vaulted from a paper read on a small college campus in Cambridge to a publication read by anyone with a web connection anywhere in the world, from Djibouti to Nepal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How to Improve The Crimson | 2/4/1997 | See Source »

...plan to return to Nepal permanently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Harvard To Hell... And Back | 10/10/1996 | See Source »

...What kind of message do you hope your book conveys to the rest of the world, especially those who know little or nothing of Nepal's history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Harvard To Hell... And Back | 10/10/1996 | See Source »

...story of Nepal. It is a story of a survivor of human rights abuse. It could be anywhere, anybody: maybe they were killed and they can't tell their story; maybe they can't write about it... It is a human's story, a woman's story, [a woman] who suffered. You don't need to know anything about Nepal. The second book I am writing now is about women who were socio-economic victims of their government. It is not just political... . Anybody could be in this situation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Harvard To Hell... And Back | 10/10/1996 | See Source »

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