Monks from Thubten Dhargye Ling center in Long Beach try to catch a glimpse of the Dalai Lama
when he arrives at UC Santa Barbara.
‘This crisis is good,’ Tibetan leader says, because it reminds people that money has limitations. He also speaks about arcane aspects of Buddhist history and philosophy.
Reporting from Santa Barbara — The [...]
We just finished our visit to Massachusetts and I am getting further behind on my writing. I do have a few minutes here in a hotel lobby in Niagara Falls (where we are spending the night on our journey to Lincoln, Nebraska. The plan is to get some sleep, take a look at the falls, [...]
By Harry Funk, Online editor
Everyone knows what art is.
It hangs in galleries, behind velvet ropes and in ornate frames, for aficionados to enjoy for generations to come.
Sure, that’s the way you learned it in school: da Vinci and Rembrandt, Manet and Monet, van Gogh and van Dyck. Art for the ages.
But what about that dragon [...]
October 13th through the 17th
After our visit to the Cleveland area, we made the beautiful drive to Westminster College in New Wilmington, PA. The trees are changing to their Autum colors with brillant shades of red, orange, brown, and everything in between. This part of the country is also the home of many Amish communities [...]
