Four Buddhist monks led nearly a thousand people down State Street on Saturday in a rain-soaked call for peace. It was the 26th Saturday that antiwar protesters had gathered in downtown Santa Barbara, but this time
Ole Nydahl looks more like an extreme-sports enthusiast than a Buddhist monk. Yet the tanned, hefty Dane is Europe's first lama. Nydahl, who was responsible for bringing Tibetan Buddhism to St. Petersburg in the early 1990s
Playing for peace
Lobsang Wangchuk, a Tibetan Buddhist monk, plays the dung shen, a traditional Buddhist long horn, during a special Unity Church of Corvallis service Sunday morning at the Majestic Theatre. He is accompanied by Geshe Jangchub Sangye, center, and Lama Geshe Ngawang Lungtok. (TIFFANY BROWN/Gazette-Times)
Loving and being friendly with your enemies can help you achieve inner peace and possibly contribute to world peace. Happiness for all and suffering for none. Those were the overwhelming messages from six Tibetan Buddhist monks
The photographer Don Farber has made his domain (in the words of his publisher) "the beauty and diversity of Buddhist life around the world." His collection "Taking Refuge in L.A.: Life in a Vietnamese Buddhist Temple" appeared in 1987 and
He seems to be like many other Westerners - fascinated by Tibet's mystical aura, follower of the Dalai Lama like Hollywood star Richard Gere, and an ardent, if naive supporter of the political freedom of Tibet.
There aren't many places where you can rack up so much good karma in so little time. Walking the one-mile-plus clockwise loop around the Labrang Monastery complex in north-central China, you can spin 1,174 brightly painted Tibetan prayer wheels
