“Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because be wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.”
His Holiness, the Dalai Lama has recently announced that he may go about the way of selecting his successor in a [...]
“Religion is the tie that binds one to one’s Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death.”
His Holiness, the Dalai Lama has stated that he may consider choosing his successor as Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism’s Spiritual Leader. He may break traditional ways of selecting a Lama [...]
“Slow and inglorious self-imposed starvation among the starving masses is every time more heroic than the death of the scaffold under false exaltation.”
A young man that was formorly a Zimbabwean policeman died of starvation in Cape Town. Adonis Musati, 23, was found on a traffic island near the home affairs refugee office. Though [...]
There is another sad chapter to the continuing conflict in Virunga National Park in the Congo. Last week another park ranger was slaughtered and another injured while on patrol to protect the critically endangered Mountain Gorillas. Mai Mai rebels have been slaying the animals on a fairly regular basis and did not hesitate [...]