JON STEWART AND THE DALAI LAMA
Maybe, just maybe, there's one other person on the planet, aside from myself, who missed Stewart's take on Obama deciding not to meet with His Holiness.   The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cHell No, Dalaiwww.thedailyshow.com

ROBERT THURMAN, ONCE AGAIN, ON TIBET, CHINA, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
The indefatigable Robert Thurman on Tibet, China, and the simple question, 'Why the Dalai Lama matters.'  And atheism, and the political right, and anything else that crosses his mind and fall within the wide arena of Tibet and His Holiness.

WELCOME TO TIBETSPACE
Welcome to TIBETSPACE, a blog in the process of changing. Begun as a site for all things Tibetan, all things Tibetan has dramatically expanded as His Holiness has created conversations that continually transcend traditional cultural boundaries.  So I will try to chart some of those conversations here, always keeping His Holiness's views in mind, but also trying to show how long those views are.

CHARTER FOR COMPASSION
The Charter for Compassion is one of the organizations that is trying to respond productively to the widespread human suffering that has become part of the daily experience of the citizens of developed countries.  Never before has the middle class, normally insulated from such suffering, had access to the fundamental images of deprivation, torture, homelessness, starvation, and environmental catastrophe that our online capabilities serve up nowadays on a continual basis.  The point is that when exposed to atrocity, most people want to do something about it.  And with such massive exposure now in play, Charter for Compassion is trying to p

JEWISH-AMERICANS LEAD THE CHARGE AGAINST SUPERSTITION; BUDDHISTS TAKE SECOND PLACE!
With Halloween and its attendant spirits having passed us by, and with superstition still a plague on many serious discussions, The Pew Research Center wondered which religious groups in American were the least and most likely to believe that angels and demons wander among us.  The results were not altogether surprising.  Among traditional religious groups, Mormons and Evangelical Christians were the most likely to b