by Carolyn Gregoire, The Huffington Post, March 26, 2014
New York, USA -- Hwansan Sunim had a pretty typical suburban American childhood. Born to Korean-American parents in Westchester County, N.Y., he grew up in Irvington, an idyllic small town on the Hudson River.
Cedar Mill, Oregon, USA -- At age 24, Domyo Burk was neurotic and miserable. She had just graduated from Reed College with a degree in biology, and she had lived a fairly fortunate life. But she was neurotic and miserable, without any apparent reason.
By MASAKI HASHIDA. Asahi Shimbun, January 05, 2014
Tokyo, Japan -- Five women gathered in a condominium in Tokyo’s Kagurazaka district on a recent Friday night to share their worldly problems with Yuken Kikuchi, a female priest of the Jodo Shu (Pure Land) sect of Buddhism.
London, UK -- An Irishman, Laurence Carroll has a strong claim to be the first Westerner to become a Buddhist monk, and became famous in Burma in the early 20th Century for denouncing the spread of Christianity there.
Akong Rinpoche was key to Tibetan Buddhism flourishing in the west
