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...widely questioned. In fact, he is one of two spiritual leaders who now lay claim to the title. The other, Trinley Thaye Dorje, also recognized as the 17th Karmapa, visited the U.S. in 2003 and currently draws crowds of thousands when he speaks around the world. Suzan Garner, President, Siddhartha Foundation, Santa Barbara, Calif...
...faith that was started 2,500 years ago by a worldly, disaffected Indian prince, Siddhartha Gautama, is finding new adherents among the modern princes and princesses of the country's prosperous élite. They're facing some of the same tensions that have made Buddhist practice so popular in the U.S. and Europe. "As in America, there are all kinds of new pressures that are at work on people, all kinds of mental stress," says K.T.S. Sarao, a professor of Buddhist studies at the University of Delhi. The wealth created by India's technology boom has brought with...
...widely questioned. In fact, he is one of two spiritual leaders who now lay claim to the title. The other, Trinley Thaye Dorje, also recognized as the 17th Karmapa, visited the U.S. in 2003 and currently draws crowds of thousands when he speaks around the world. Suzan Garner, President, Siddhartha Foundation, SANTA BARBARA, CALIF...
...research on what people have done in the past. I started to become interested in ascetics, the great monks, San Simeon. Reading "Siddhartha" as a kid got me interested in fasting. [Standing atop a pillar in New York City] came to me early on. I looked at a huge telephone pole and thought, standing on that would be pretty amazing. Trafalgar Square gave me the London idea. For [being trapped in]ice, I was flying back to New York and just started thinking about an icicle with a fly trapped inside it. Then I started thinking about a block...
...Krakauer’s book in hand, writer-director Sean Penn forges a story in “Into the Wild” that takes “The Graduate,” slams it into “Siddhartha,” and rolls it all down Jack Kerouac’s road. When you start a Krakauer book—whether it be the Everest adventure “Into Thin Air” or Mormon tragedy “Under the Banner of Heaven”—you realize that you are about to embark...