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Month: November, 2008

Karmapa as Dalai Lama’s Regent?

I just saw this article at the Times Online today. An excerpt is below: Dalai Lama may appoint a regent to succeed him The Dalai Lama, Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, is considering appointing a regent to lead the Tibetan movement after his death until his reincarnation is old enough to take over. The idea was [...]

Drafting a Statement of Purpose

My application for the doctoral program at the Graduate Theological Union is just about complete. The PhD that I would like to mentor my work there has sent in a recommendation letter for me. This makes me pretty happy as I’m really hoping that we can work together. One of the last things that I [...]