there were different kingdoms in the himalayas practicing vajrayana buddhism, tibetan buddhism. we are the last surviving nation whose state religion is vajrayana buddhism. charlie: feudal until 1953? prime minister tobgay: yes. charlie: the first roads around 1962. prime minister tobgay: 1961 we started constructing our first motor road. my mother worked on that road. charlie: wow. prime minister tobgay: the entire country had to come together. now we have 750,000 people. our entire population had to come and work on the road. my mother was one of them. charlie: and your dad was a soldier. you were educated in the united states. prime minister tobgay: i did my high school in bhutan. i won a scholarship to study engineering. i wrote to the best 10 engineering colleges, and the university of pittsburgh. i have not regretted it. charlie: yes. prime minister tobgay: i returned later to cambridge, massachusetts. charlie: then you went back. prime minister tobgay: i went back after my college, my engineering degree. i studied mechanical engineering. most of us, after college, regardl

it's the only country in the world that designates tibetan buddhism as its state religion. most are believers and practice every day. a fundamental teaching of tibetan buddhism is reincarnation, a belief in which the soul begins a new life newed abou body after death. in 2001, jigme opened the first training facility with people for disacts as a place to build theirself-esteem and self-reliance. having a child with disabilities in bhutan carries stigma, with parents often hiding them away at home. she hopes to reverse such negative attitudes. jigme also created a bakery for youngsters from the center to give them an opportunity for employment. this type of workplace dedicated to the disabled is still unusual in bhutan. >> i call them little bhutan, not children, but little bhutan. because they make us feel very kind, make us feel compassionate. >> in this episode of asia insight, we follow jigme and her efforts to empower the disabled youth of bhutan. bhutan is a small kingdom of 700,000, sandwiched between china and india. the nation had literally no contact with the outsi

>> the novices here practice tibetan buddhism, the national religion. a man arrives. he's come to teach the nuns how to repair shoes. he works in a repair shop like this one. this is one of the world's least developed countries and many people only own one pair of shoes. but by learning how to repair them, their shoes will last longer. he has been distributing shoes to the poor rural areas free of charge. the shoes are collected in the more affluent capital to be cleaned and recycled. >> translator: there are shoes in the capital and people in the countryside don't have any to wear. want to do something about this disparity. >> in this episode of asia insight, we follow a man's efforts to ensure that no one in butan has to go without shoes. the kingdom of butan with a population of 730,000 lies south of the himalayas. traditional attire is still worn in schools and at official events. however, people now commonly sport modern leather shoes. multicolors sneakers are popular with the younger generation. in this photograph, most people are barefooted. in the past, shoes

the last surviving nation whose state religion is mamiana buddhism.feudal till about 1933. >> and then the third king abolished the system. >> rose: first roads in '62. yes, in '61, we started constructing our first road about three years before i was born. charlie my mother worked on this road. the entire country had to come together because now we have 750,000 people, so, at that time, we must have had about 600,000 people 500,000 people, and our entire population had to come and work on the road so my mother was one of them. as most of our parents. >> rose: your dad was a soldier. >> yes. >> rose: but you were educated in the united states. >> i was educated in india first, then i did my high school in bhutan, won a scholarship to study engineering in america. i wrote to the best ten colleges, ten engineering colleges and i wrote to the university of pittsburgh because, at that time pittsburgh was voted the most livable city by thyme "time magazine." >> rose: city of three rivers. a beautiful city. i returned much later to cambridge massachusetts.

they were found guilty of insulting buddhism. they were put in prison with hard labor. >> any insult against religion is taken seriously in myanmar. remind us why. >> reporter: the reason why this law exists dates back to british colonial times. it can be any religion. the reason at the moment is there is a vocal group of hard lined buddhists. the religion is under threat. we hear about them talking about the threat from muslims and muslim people coming into this country. that is the way it's expressed mostly. they see what's happened with the flier as a continuation of that. the good name of buddhism is under threat and they have to protect it. this is an old law. plenty buddhists are embarrassed it's gone this far. they apologized for what happened. the new zealander was very sorry. he had no idea it would cause this offense. >> apologies for the sound quality. >>> eight agencies say cons in vanuatu are bad. cyclone pam left much of the nation uninhabitable. 65 populated islands, many are inaccessible. we have this update from

this sect of buddhism--they believe playing the shakuhachi playing even a single tone was a means or enlightenment. [soft flute plays] shakuhachi has such a palette of different color sounds. for example, if we want a very strong round sound, more like a western flute, very hard-edged sound, we have [hard-edged flute sound] very, more strong kind shakuhachi sound. then we also want a very airy sound so the same kind of [airy flute sounds] (narrator) when another instrument and voice are added to the shakuhachi, what kind of texture results? (hahn) when shakuhachi plays with the ensemble, with koto and with vocalist, these kinds of lines together are heterophonic in nature. the same melody is being played, but there are little nuances part own [sings example] like this. shakuhachi, they may not play in that kind of ormentation, that kind of subtlety, so we might play just an introductory note to the phrase, where we play [sings example]. all of these various sounds create such a beautiful heterophonic texture. (narrator) ganga, a polyphonic song form is performed throughout bosnia and

. >>> i'm rob mcbride in seoul, a modern city connecting with his heritage through the power of buddhism>> reporter: coming up in sport, how one of north america's host historic soccer teams is playing a role in political diplomacy. ♪ >>> rescue workers have started to reach some of vanuatu's most remote islands. the u.n. says at least 11 people have been killed. more than 3,000 have been made homeless. aid has now arrived at the capitol, but little has reached the outer eye lacks. andrew thomas was one of the first foreign correspondent to teach a southern island and sent this update. >> reporter: this wrecked building is one of three that make up the main primary school on this island. 160 small children studied here but they won't be coming back for some time as you can see. this is tan na perhaps the hardest hit island. we flew down in a small propeller plane because that's the only kind of planes that can get here at the moment. what is really needed are the big military planes. >> the priors are the roads, the tents, the shelters foods, and medicines, and the tents shelter foods an

the remarkable move by china, an atheist country and the world's number one polluter, to embrace buddhismr to help persuade its citizens to care about the environment. special correspondent fred de sam lazaro has that story. a version of his report appeared previously on "religion and ethics newsweekly," and was produced in partnership with the pulitzer center on crisis reporting and face to face media. >> chung, life long atheist and environmental journalist is becoming a buddhist. his first exposeeÉ was on illegal dam construction on the upper river. over the last ten years, it's led to national attention, a job firing and now burnout. as an environmentalist, every day what we see is polluted air, polluted rivers and the slaughter of wild animals. this kind of negative energy attacks us every day. where do we draw our strength from? >> reporter: he's one of millions of chinese returning to temples that have in times past been condemned by the government. a lilt over four decades ago during china's revolution, many built temples like this one in central beijing were destroyed or defaced.

this is wednesday march 11 buddhism lecture, life of sacred text. you see the sculpture on the screen there and the display there. it's at 2300 ridge road in berkeley. it is a number of seminaries, can be as many as eight or nine seminaries that have worked together. carol and i are both graduates of one. >> i am happy to be chairman of the board of trustees. great school. >> great. we have lutherans, episcopalians, jesuits. gtu, this wednesday, be there. we are grateful that you joined us. we are grateful for reverend carol and reverend jim. i think you got a real inspiring message today. thank you for being with us. going to make you laugh...........3 comedians and a politician........that >>> welcome to bay sunday. it is good to have you on board today. we're going to make you laugh. three comedians and a politician should get your sunday rocking. a familiar face in san francisco, he spent the last few decades lamb panozzoing just about every politician on planet earth. he is an author, columnist, political pundant. how is it going mr. durst. >>

the three men were guilty of insulting buddhism and sentenced to 2.5 years of hard labor. >> pretty disappointed actually. is more than the maximum sentence. >> do have a message to people who believe that you offended them? >> i can only sam sorry so many times. it has nothing to do with me. >> relatives of the burmese men were not happy, either. in court they put the blame for posting the picture on mr. blackwood. >> philip admitted he was the one who did it. he didn't show it, just posted it on his own. >> mr. blackwood's best chance of getting out of jail on an appeal rests with government intervention. his friends and family are hoping that in the coming months he will be quietly released and deported from myanmar. bbc news. katty: tomorrow marks 50 years since the first ever spacewalk. russia completed the unprecedented mission in 1965. follow two months a -- follow two months later i the americans. he was still in your to venture off into the smithsonian's air and space museum is where we will learn more. >> 500 kilometers above the earth aleskie took the first walk into space. mainly aud

has erotic images in it, but he testified that it was innocent, and they had a common interest in buddhism, and this is what the book is all about, and so there's a whole lot of it as we have been saying, he said/she said in the case. the judge, and let me just the judge is saying that everyone needs to be quiet, and respectful, and admonish iing t jury and the courtroom which has been packed throughout the culmination of the trial, and so searching for some decorum there as we await for the verdict to be read. >> thank you, scott. in the meantime, we will bring in the cnbc's correspondent, julia boorstin, and this is one that is captivating silicon valley, and the papa rrazzi is what they are calling the venture capitalist, and the venture world as it is called. >> yes, absolutely. it is bringing a lot of gender imbalance in silicon valley, and looking at twitter, and facebook, and google, and those are 70% female and 30% male, and when you look at venture capitalists, it is very small, and it is about 6% women hold the top investment investment roles in silicon valley v.c. firms, and so

it just arrived from buddhism but all of the buddhist language stripped out.ill explain how to do it. when i talk to one of the tech reporters at the time how to do it in fewer letters then how to send a tweet. the first step is to sit with your spine straight and eyes closed. focus your full attention on the feeling of your breath coming in and going out. the third step is the key. as soon as you tried to focus on the feeling of your breath your mind will go nuts. it will start wondering. you will ask yourselves silly questions and doing your to do list or whatever. you want to notice when your mind has gotten carried away and start over. and start over again and again and again. you are literally rewiring your brain. by the way, it is a radical act. most of us have trouble paying attention at the present moment. our life is a -- we are wrapped up in the past. you are happily an outlier. charlie: the book is called "10% happier." dan harris, thank you. a pleasure. congratulations -- i think self-awareness is a remarkable thing. to bring to bear anything that

and it doesn't have to be a religion per se, he said, it can be a philosophy of life, buddhism behind eyeism and for some it is religion or not. but whatever religion or philosophy people adopt, they almost all have a golden rule within them. and if you are legitimately practicing them and practicing them well, you will be a pretty good person and that is his words. but some may have doingg mas of their own but they transfer them into values. adherence of religion is not a switch between the internal and external domains. fasten don put it as unobtrusiveness, protecting a neutral space converted and unconverted in alienism. and outsider candidates in the united states history have enthusiastically supported what is a protestant system. so catholics mormons, black protestants don't always pursue their religiouses and i want to take those of festen don and others and apply them to our actors in life the presidential candidates and so the other books and scholars tend to right about either deep careful readings of literary effects or tend to work through hugely abstract analysis of new m

it is derived from buddhism but has basically all the buddhist language and metaphysics stripped out.i talked to one of the tech reporters in the "new york times" in fewer letters than it takes to send a tweet. so it's not complicated. sit with your spine straight and eyes closed and the second step is to focus your full attention on the feeling of your breath coming if and going out. the third step is the key. as soon as you try to do this as soon as you try to just focus on the feeling of your breath, your mind will go nuts. it's going to start wandering. you're going to be asking yourself silly questions, doing your to-do list whatever. and then you just want to notice when your mind has gotten carried away and start over and start over again and again and again and again. every time you do that, it's a bicep curl for your brain. your are literally rewiring your brain. it's also a radical act because most of us have trouble paying attentiono the present moment. our life is a fog. we are wrapped up in rumination about the past and projection into the future. you are happily an outli

. >> that perfectionist drive driven by his affinity for buddhism. >> if you're only going to live herey have seemed like a jerk sometimes but what was driving it was this idealism. >> we'll see you all soon. >> without jobs apple is as strong as ever but his loss is felt every day. >> his presence is still palpable around apple. they may not be a steve but the spirit is steve is still there. >> for "good morning america" deborah roberts, abc news, new york. >> becoming steve job is available tomorrow. ginger we came back inside but that's crazy. that's the first week of spring? >> this is the first week of spring, yes. and my new friend is from where? >> florence, alabama. >> and she is just frozen here. but this is how we're doing spring break. how about we warm it up and go to florida where this morning it is stormy in central florida, treasure island. near tampa. along the bay there. you can see tampa, temperature will make it 78 there just south of the front. look at miami, almost 90. jacksonville, in the 60s for a high. that is the big picture. >> good morning, i am meteorologist

in buddhism is one of the three signs of existence, the other being suffering and non selfhood. according to the buddhist scriptures win the buddha passed away the king deity added the following:quote in permanent are all component things, they are prized and cease, that is their nature. a come into being and passed away. we should not attach to the world's say the buddhists, to things in the world because all things are temporary and they will soon pass away. all suffering, say the buddhists comes from the attachment. if i could only detached from my daughter may be i would feel better. to my mind is one of the profound contradictions of human existence that we long for immortality. indeed fervently believe that something must be unchanging and permanent when all the evidence and nature argues against that. either i and delusional or nature is in complete. either i am being emotional end vein in my wish for eternal life for myself and my daughter or there is some realm of immortality that exists outside of nature. as a false alternative, the need to have a talk with myself and

in buddhism is one of the three signs of existence, the other being suffering and non selfhood. according to the buddhist scriptures win the buddha passed away the king deity added the following:quote in permanent are all component things, they are prized and cease, that is their nature. a come into being and passed away. we should not attach to the world's say the buddhists, to things in the world because all things are temporary and they will soon pass away. all suffering, say the buddhists comes from the attachment. if i could only detached from my daughter may be i would feel better. to my mind is one of the profound contradictions of human existence that we long for immortality. indeed fervently believe that something must be unchanging and permanent when all the evidence and nature argues against that. either i and delusional or nature is in complete. either i am being emotional end vein in my wish for eternal life for myself and my daughter or there is some realm of immortality that exists outside of nature. as a false alternative, the need to have a talk with myself and