When the Dalai Lama delivered his first lecture to an American audience, the year was 1979, and t... Buddhism grows in America.
When the Dalai Lama delivered his first lecture to an American audience, the year was 1979, and the place was in northwestern New Jersey, at an obscure Buddhist teaching center.
"We had maybe several hundred people," said Diana Cutler, who has lived at the center for decades. "He wasn't famous then."
Recently, the 75-year-old leader of Tibetan Buddhism and global human rights champ...
Oct. 22, 2005 — To say that we are all on a quest to find ourselves is an awful cliché... Korean Temple Stay Experie
Oct. 22, 2005 — To say that we are all on a quest to find ourselves is an awful cliché — but one in which I am sorry to have to say, does contain a granule of truth. Aren't we constantly looking for what will ultimately make us happy?
I know we mightn't realize it straight off, but isn't that desire for a better car (or simply just a car), or a bigger TV, or better labe...
By John Satish K., New Delhi: Lack of money and domestic pressures are what come in the way of sp... Religion no obstacle to sp
By John Satish K., New Delhi: Lack of money and domestic pressures are what come in the way of sportswomen in Pakistan, not religious compulsions.
Pakistani women players now here for the Asian Satellite Badminton Championship insist that their society, though Islamic, offers them all the opportunities, and women have excelled in many sports ranging from squash to swimming.
"I have ...
Lack of money and domestic pressures are what come in the way of sportswomen in Pakistan, not rel... Religion no obstacle to sp
Lack of money and domestic pressures are what come in the way of sportswomen in Pakistan, not religious compulsions.
Pakistani women players now here for the Asian Satellite Badminton Championship insist that their society, though Islamic, offers them all the opportunities, and women have excelled in many sports ranging from squash to swimming.
"I have been playing badminton competi...
NEW YORK -- A growing number of countries have adopted population and development policies to mee... Sex inequality slows growt
NEW YORK -- A growing number of countries have adopted population and development policies to meet the health-care and education needs of women, including their reproductive health needs. In spite of that, gender inequality persists in most countries around the world. According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) state of world population report 2005, gender inequality hinders not onl...
BORN 1944, in Trinidad, which he left, aged 16, for England. FAMILY Father a headmaster and... Darcus Howe: The bruiser...
BORN 1944, in Trinidad, which he left, aged 16, for England.
FAMILY Father a headmaster and Anglican deacon. Mother a teacher.
EDUCATION Queen's Royal College in Trinidad. Studied law at Middle Temple in London.
CAREER As a Black Panther activist, he was charged with riot and affray in 1971, and acquitted. Sentenced in 1977 to three months for assaulting a police officer. Fro...
Interviews from The Independent & The Independent on Sunday Home > News > World > Asia Th... Asia falls for a girl band of fo
Interviews from The Independent & The Independent on Sunday Home > News > World > Asia
They strut their stuff and shake their booties as well as any pop band worldwide, and their infectious dance tunes are taking the Asian music scene by storm.
But in one crucial respect Lady, the hottest music act to come out of South Korea in years, are not your average girl group. They may have...
When Edmund Morris is commissioned to write a biography of Ronald Reagan, he invents a schoolfrie... Rules of engagement...
When Edmund Morris is commissioned to write a biography of Ronald Reagan, he invents a schoolfriend for the president, with his own name, from whose perspective he can describe the events of the president's childhood. When novelist and biographer Peter Ackroyd writes a biography of novelist Charles Dickens, he inserts fictional sections. When Philip Roth writes a novel based on his marriage to...
PHONE: 2037439467Inspired by Depeche Mode, Jimmy Pop and high school friend Mike Bowe — who later... Jimmy Pop brings R-rated r
PHONE: 2037439467Inspired by Depeche Mode, Jimmy Pop and high school friend Mike Bowe — who later helped found Bloodhound Gang and rapped under the name Daddy Long Legs — formed the band Bang Chamber 8.
Around 1992, though, the pair, joined by Bubba K. Love and a fourth rapper named Foof, formed Bloodhound Gang. Their second demo tape, "Hitler's Handicapped Helpers" had a cover with band...
PHONE: 2037967777Inspired by Depeche Mode, Jimmy Pop and high school friend Mike Bowe — who later... Jimmy Pop brings R-rated r
PHONE: 2037967777Inspired by Depeche Mode, Jimmy Pop and high school friend Mike Bowe — who later helped found Bloodhound Gang and rapped under the name Daddy Long Legs — formed the band Bang Chamber 8.
Around 1992, though, the pair, joined by Bubba K. Love and a fourth rapper named Foof, formed Bloodhound Gang. Their second demo tape, "Hitler's Handicapped Helpers" had a cover with band...
