Jalue Dorje knew it would be the last big party before he joins a monastery in the Himalayan foothills — thousands of miles from his home in a Minneapolis suburb, where he grew up like a typical ...
The young Buddhist lama sat on a throne near an altar decorated with flowers, fruits and golden statues of the Buddha, watching the celebrations of his 18th birthday in silence, with a faint smile.
Today, rights consciousness has expanded to include issues of gender equality, racial justice, LGBTQ+ rights, environmental rights and the rights of marginalized groups. While the language of rights ...
There is one Gandhi museum in the Americas. It is in Houston. “We wanted a space to tell a story about how social change can be made from the concepts of peace and non-violence,” says Dr. Manish Wani, ...