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According to Tibetan Buddhist belief, the material world is a school through which all souls pass in order to learn the spiritual lessons of sympathy for human suffering, patience, humility, and love. Death, they feel, is simply a release from the illusion of the material world. They believe in each...
The Dalai Lama spent three days in Boston this week, speaking publicly twice, attending receptions and participating in a seminar at the Divinity School--all part of his 46-day visit to promote "compassion and love and closer understanding between the various types of religions," he said Wednesday.
Perhaps Geoffrey's brother at last exposed the real Duke, a fumbling, impotent, useless human being, unworthy of eulogy, much less a 270-page memorial. But this stinking jailbird did not bring up Geoffrey. The book is not about the real Duke, but the Duke of Deception, the father who...
Gordimer's compassion and outrage color one of the central images of the book--the beating of a donkey.
A: Yes. I read somewhere that someone said it was a political compromise. The first time I heard that was when I read it in the press. I was very surprised. I never thought it was a compromise. Let's look at it from a practical point of view. What...