NPR: "The Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., is home to the only Buddhist chapel on a U.S. military base. After a controversy over religious intolerance during the summer of 2005, the chapel was built in the basement of the academy's iconic Cadet Chapel."

Inside Higher Ed: "College officials renamed the garden last spring as part of its Institute for Forgiveness and Reconciliation. As many other colleges seek to advance their missions by building new, state-of-the-art centers designed to propel them into the 21st century, Chestnut Hill is looking to emphasize the principles that the Sisters of St. Joseph - the college’s founding order of nuns - have espoused since the 17th century."

"The Sangat Project brings communities together so that we can learn from each other. We are dedicated to the preservation of cultures around the world. We have worked in the India/Pakistan (Punjab) border region, where cultural heritage has been sacrificed for political factionalism. Unfortunately, the people suffer when they are denied access to their own history because of an accident of geography and government policies."

Via the East-West Philosophy at Naropa University blog:

"Professor David R. Loy is the author of Nonduality: A Study in Comparative Philosophy (Yale University Press, 1988), Lack and Transcendence: The Problem of Death and Life in Psychotherapy, Existentialism, and Buddhism (Humanities Press, 1996), A Buddhist History of the West: Studies in Lack (State University of New York Press, 2002), and The Great Awakening: A Buddhist Social Theory (Wisdom Publications, 2003)...For many years, Prof. Loy taught philosophy and religion at Bunkyo University near Tokyo, Japan. In 2006 he took a position in the Theology Department at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. In addition to his academic work, David Loy is an authorized teacher in the Sanbo Kyodan lineage of Zen Buddhism...The text below is an edited transcript of a telephone conversation between Tom McFarlane and Professor Loy in July of 2004."

Via Matt Yglesias:

"In a recent debate leading up to the presidential elections here, the first question was not about terrorism, or violence, or even opium. It was about how candidates viewed a jagged line casually drawn on a map 115 years ago by British colonial rulers. For the West, this border separates Afghanistan from Pakistan, and it is a source of great frustration that neither country seems able or even willing to enforce it. But for many Pashtuns, the most powerful ethnic tribe here, the line runs through what they call 'Pashtunistan' and is no more legitimate than the border that once divided East and West Germany."