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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...take time off from school. He is now living with Buddhist monks at the Gampo Abbey, a religious community in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Gordon had been moderately interested in Buddhism since high school, when he read a book on Zen, but he did not seriously become involved until his junior year of college. “I just gave it a shot,” Gordon says in a phone call from Nova Scotia. Last year he began attending the Harvard Buddhist Community’s Monday meditation sessions in the Mather Tranquility...

Author: By Jannie S. Tsuei, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eastern Exposure | 11/6/2003 | See Source »

...Buddhists who were not originally Unitarian or some other religious affiliation, the practice of Buddhism can be quite different. Meghan C. Howard ’04 is one such example. Drawn to Buddhism by a Zen text, her parents were Zen Buddhist until she was four, when a Tibetan lama visited Rochester, N.Y. “They were so moved,” Howard says, that they became Tibetan Buddhist and helped set up the local dharma center, which they now run. Howard laughs as she recounts the long hours she spent at the dharma center as a child, saying...

Author: By Jannie S. Tsuei, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eastern Exposure | 11/6/2003 | See Source »

Cambridge Zen Center...

Author: By A. HAVEN Thompson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Meditation in Cambridge | 11/6/2003 | See Source »

Type of Buddhism: Korean Chogye (Zen...

Author: By A. HAVEN Thompson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Meditation in Cambridge | 11/6/2003 | See Source »

...quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself. -Zen koan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Long Haul | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

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