Sunday, March 21, 2010

Kentucky loses a Buddhist pioneer

Courier-Journal.com (March 19, 2010)
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky - In the late 1970s — long before Buddhism registered on the cultural radar of most Americans — Mary Catherine McCliment was taking every course she could in Tibetan studies at Indiana University from an exiled Tibetan monk.

Soon she took formal vows as a Buddhist and in the past decade took a leading role in establishing a Tibetan Buddhist center in Louisville, with monks in residence.

She sought to live out what her teacher at IU — Thubten J. Norbu, the late brother of the Dalai Lama — had inspired her to do: “Go and learn everything you possibly can about Tibet — its history, language, religion, culture — and go out and teach that.” More>>

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