buddhism in comic is different than buddhism in other parts of the world you know during his very difficult seventy years it was that they nearly lost their culture completely and now they're reviving it and you can feel this revival for example i go to japan a lot in there they have a buddhist culture a buddhist history and many of the people say they're buddhist but when you ask them much about buddhism they don't know anything and you ask them where do they turn when their lives are in trouble and usually they turn to work or money yeah but here they turn to the temple to the buddha to the teachers and that's a big difference. the temple is open to worship isn't taurus to like even during preparations for ground festivals. it is the most sacred place in europe's only buddhist republic and the main attraction of company is capital. some are brought in by religion others a curious to see its magnificent interior. traditionally nearly all visitors walk around the temple clockwise to pay their respects to the gold a nine meet a statue of the shock. and you can talk us out of religion was fro

it is a heathen rights but it has parallels with buddhism. and is performed each year in early spring and in autumn. in autumn we make offerings to the fire we ask for a mild winter so that nobody suffers not even the animals. and of course with a buddhist prayers to avert war and natural calamities across the world. one sacred personality of count make history is so gun. he is known by many titles the white old man the master and protector of the step and the patron saint of nomads. even though his teachings are rooted in sharman as a statue of him stands outside europe's largest buddhist temple called the golden abode of the shock your moonie buddha this sixty three metre tall building in kalmykia has capital l. a star can be seen from any point in the city. of the grand temple can accommodate a huge number of people for prayer services and grand festivals is a trucks tourists and buddhists from all over the world coming yes company. tibet and monks from the good med monastery in india have come to come here to attend an international festi

the karmapa lama said buddhism teaches that life is precious and should be preserved. 11 tibetans have set themselves on fire this year to protest china's policies towards tibet. prayer services have been held in india for the 11, among them a tibetan nun who died last week. the dalai lama has called their actions "a sign of deep desperation." >>> in other news, this weekend, tlc cable network is presenting its latest reality program, this one about american muslims. it's called "all-american muslim" and it features five different families living in dearborn, michigan. creators say they want to show musms as "eveday folks." the cast includes a high school football coach and a businesswoman hoping to open a nightclub. >>> also, this weekend, the national cathedral reopens for the consecration of the new episcopal bishop of washington, d.c., rev. dr. mariann edgar budde. the cathedral has been closed since august after it sustained significant damage in the earthquake that hit the washington area. the cathedral continues to try to raise funds for its repairs. damage from the quake has be

a priest decides he is going to show the powers of mystic buddhism and he appears and on the alter with different sorts ofornmen of owns and then progresses through profound things and all of these are tongue twisters but it's the first round of tongue twisters nothing happens and the priest is very upset and blushes extraordinary red and he tries again. the second time the chants are much shorter and he begins to lose his patience and again nothing happens. third time nothing happens and he basically says how much time to turn to the wonderrous powers of the lotus set raand he does chanting and the parody is something like if anyone is old enough to remember and the mouse before vatican two and you don't understand anything and it's mumbo jump bow and this is a parody of that. the second and third pieces before the intermission i will not introduce. i think the program notes are sufficient and rather than lecture i would much rather you enjoy the performance. the one thing i would like to emphasize about the first piece this is indeed a comic piece and in most instances westerners have

buddhism in school?: eric was a jock so not only did he not have political ideas, he had no ideas. >> eric: i had a few ideas. none of them happen to be useful now. but we had fun. i remember, let me put hit the way. che, right? my son is eric che. we call him che. i have to stop doing that. from now on it's over. >> dana: the name is over. >> greg: what if your son came home -- >> eric: we watch occupy stuff all the time. you can see him going they're young, they're kind of cool. you can see him signing in. no, no, no that's not what you want to do. you don't want to be that when you grow up stay away from that. >> greg: what if your son came home as a registered republican? >> bob: i'd disown him after i kick the hell out of him. i don't allow republicans in my house. >> greg: you don't allow them. >> bob: i don't. i might allow you in. when i was a kid, i went to a voting machine. a lesson, i was 13. my dad said see the democratic thing? pull it, good things happen. cars, women, money. what if i pull

ron nakasone, buddhism, aging in asian context, and ron had just told us about a visit to his ancestralhen was talking about the relationship and the duties of between really the living and the ancestors. share that, if you would, sir. >> in the okinawan culture, japanese culture, chinese culture, there is no distinction between life and death. in japan, in okinawa, when a person passes away, he or she has ended her physical existence, but the spiritual existence still needs be cultivated. so at the end of 33 years, it's believed that the person finally fulfills and becomes a deity, ancestral spirit. and the idea of reciprocity, feelialty between parent and child, even in death, the child has an obligation to support his or her family, parents, in fulfilling this or becoming a fully spiritual being. and we do this by remembering, offering sacrifices, and to ease this person's passage to the spiritual life. and so this obligation, of course, is not only -- should not only be relegated to when a person is dead. that's fully a continuation of caring for one's elders as they get older. and

college of the holy cross in massachusetts and the curator of a traveling exhibit on pilgrimages in buddhism, christianity and islam. we spoke to her at the museum of art in new york city. >> pilgrimages are undertaken because people want to move beyond their normal mundane life. they can be a one-day pilgrimage from one town to another on a particular feast day. enwe a weekend. they can be actually years. in the past, pilgrimage was vital in christian religion. certainly in muslim and in buddhists. only islam requires the pilgrimage, the haj. it is one of the five pillars of islam. that is nuanced. only if you are financially and physically able. on pilgrimage, people experience the same activities. therefore it produces a sense of camaraderie and sharing. constantly we see the spirit is strong but the flesh is weak. all three religions use handy objects to help focus people's thoughts. prayer beads are some of the most ubiquitous. they are brought by people especially on the haj where they could kneel down and then pray during the days of their journey. the koran's small ones were often ca

they think they can make another enormous investment in something as large as a house so different buddhism doesn't have anything to do with that all the dodd frank is trying to do is find better ways to. courage our banks to be more responsible and then encourage government to have a better pathway to bailing them out or not bailing them out winding them down when they become so large and unwieldy that we realize we have to split up the assets unfortunately somehow you no longer really hear obama care being used as much of course it comes up during the republican debates it's no longer the bad word last night it seems like dodd frank became the bad words that show a clip to the audience for a quick. the biggest regulatory problem we have is obamacare and dodd frank i will repeal those bills because the republican house next week would repeal dawud frank and allow us to put pressure on the senate to repeal blood from the housing market start to improve overnight dodd frank kill small but it kills small business the federal regulators are anti housing loan and it has maximized the pain level

in the buddhism there's concept of the beginner's mind. u're starting everything from the beginning. when steve jobs looked at a product he would always see it from the beginning. i think the problem is bill gates always tried to find a continuum from windows, do you know what i mean. so it went from windows on your pc to win toes on your phone to windows on your tablet. the thing is windows on the pc did not look so good on the funny, right, you probably saw they have no mart share. and then it didn't look very good on the tablet either. they also had a market share and at was not the right way to build that device. even in music where they tried to makeomething called the zune whicho longer exists. it was the same thing. and that is i think the fundamental mistake. >> charlie: you got to start new. >> you have toave a beginner's mind. you have to look at it and take that breath and start and say what d i really want. what am i trying to create. >> charlie: why did forbes say your company was the most innovative company of the year >> i d

>> i want to be influenced by the part of buddhism that emphasizes kindness, nonviolence, benevolence, respect for life, and yet because some of the things that irme inclined to say -- i'm inclined to say are controversial i have to be aware that though i affirm kindness and gentleness, nonetheless there's going to be some inevitable friction from what i do and i don't want to back off from that. so the part i like most next to emerson is probably william blake. he's a tough, prophetic, left wing revolutionary poet. if you could combine blake's toughness and eagerness to effect change with a sense of buddhist detachment and kindness, you'd be really going somewhere. that's tough to do. >> do you vote, by the way? >> absolutely. >> did you always vote? >> absolutely. >> what do you find in your classrooms from your students about being involved today in politics? >> i -- a lot of skepticism, virtually blanket skepticism. some vote, some don't. but as intelligent as they are and engaged in as many aspects of life as they are, the great majority of my students think politics is a sham, t

buddhism is about interconnection and the world is all interconnected now and it is time we get clearhow that will work that way. i didn't get married until my 30's. i was a working girl. i worked at the library of congress. i guess we did not -- i don't remember any conversation about that. it was just so cool and having it called "ms." was just perfect. it needs to be digitized. host: there was debate over what to put on the cover. guest: there was a big fight between gloria steinem and the editor because clay wanted a photograph that was much more "new york" magazine-like. a husband and wife tied back to back as if they were tied to a pole. the resident article -- there was an article about marriage law. and gloria steinem wanted inartistic cover the was much more visually artistic and arrested in that way. the woman represents everything women were charlie at the time. -- the woman represents everything that women were juggling at the time. we're still juggling all those things in 2011. the woman was blue intentionally because they did not want to choose a specific race so no one