Dalai Lama

Buddhists in Borscht Belt! All Praise His Holisticness

Professor Robert Thurman welcomes the Dalai Lama to a medical conference in upstate New York.
Jan Shlansky-Kittay
Professor Robert Thurman welcomes the Dalai Lama to a medical conference in upstate New York.

On the morning of Wednesday, Sept.  read more »

Notions of Tibetan Tranquility Are Rattled at Rubin Museum

<i>Kamala, Suvarnadvipa, Viraya</i>, from Tibet, ca. the 17th century.
Rubin Museum of Art
Kamala, Suvarnadvipa, Viraya, from Tibet, ca. the 17th century.

Sometimes, one’s priorities get misplaced.  read more »

His Holinesses

We hear the Dalai Lama will stop by the Farley Post Office this Sunday to pay tribute to his late friend, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, for whom the post office will be renamed—once it turns into a train station. Turns out the two went way back, and the Senator’s daughter, Maura, agitated for Tibetan rights before she began agitating for the train station. No time set but His Holiness’s official schedule shows him to be across the street at Madison Square Garden at 3 p.m.
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Disaster Ignites Debate: 'Was God In the Tsunami?'

"Was God in the Tsunami?" I woke up to that question in my Yahoo inbox four days after the waves str  read more »

Tibet via the B.Q.E.

Sunnyside, Queens, may be as remote as Tibet for the average Manhattanite, but for Tibetan exile Yun  read more »

Dear Bill Murray: Please! Come to Newport Film Fest!

I'm going to interrupt this column before it even begins with an important announcement, an open let  read more »

Tibet's Cool, But What About Cuba's Travails?

Martin Scorsese's Kundun needs no hype from me; a month after it opened, the lines still stretch aro  read more »