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...South in the 1960s, he focused his concepts of mindfulness and "engaged Buddhism" into retreats for American veterans struggling to build inner peace from the ravages of the Vietnam War. He's published more than 80 books, built monasteries in France and the U.S. and was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by Martin Luther King Jr., who said his anti-war stance was inspired by the Zen master's teachings...
...million people are Buddhist, but after the Vietnam war the Communist Party folded the religion's many sects into one state-controlled church.) Quang Do smuggled his messages to his supporters in Paris who then channel the word back to Vietnam. He has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize several times...
...Nelson Mandela became the first democratically elected President of South Africa. Just a year earlier, he had received a Nobel for helping bring about the end of apartheid...
Lester Bowles Pearson is best known as Canada's 14th Prime Minister. But before that he was a 1957 Nobel laureate, winning for work at the U.N. that helped diffuse the Suez crisis...
...from the outside world by a forbidding blizzard, the sensuality of the momentary union of lovers’ hands held underneath a table: such are the interwoven motifs in the captivating imagistic web of “Snow,” the most recent novel of 2006 Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk.Defying genre constraints, “Snow” is, on one hand, a depiction of the contemporary political realities of a country that geographically straddles the border between the East and West—a polity divided between a secularized, cosmopolitan bourgeois and a political Islamist provincial underclass...