It Was Not Shambala, This Village Full Of LifeRecalling a Buddhist ceremony...
In a Thai village off the Gulf of Siam about 40 years ago I was swept into an ordination ceremony that, as an Eastern Classics MA would teach me in later years, defined the difference between the two...
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Meditation In A Killing FieldWhat is the relationship of Buddhism to genocide?
We were sitting on bamboo mats in a dark pagoda built at the site of a former Khmer Rouge killing field on the highway from Siem Reap to Angkor Wat. Our Cambodian guide was struggling through a...
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The Buddhists Had The Answer To The American War in VietnamThich Nhat Hanh In...
Thich Nhat Hanh’s return to Vietnam in May for a retreat followed by a United Nations conference was a triumph for his “engaged Buddhism.” Not only was his global influence evident at the conference,...
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The Emptiness Of The Plain of JarsA sidebar to President Obama’s Laos apology
(c)by LARRY CALLOWAY THE JARS on the Plain of Jarres (French colonialists named it) are empty. The bomb craters from the secret war in Laos, pockmarks of a sick strategy called “madman,” are...
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Secret Wars Have No HeroesMore on what Obama revealed and rued
A king at rest (C)text and photos by LARRY CALLOWAY Air America was created in 1959 to support covert operations in Laos, a landlocked country of no more than 3 million people then, caught between...
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Saying Goodbye In ThaiMean Streets, Peaceful River
by Larry Calloway (c) 2012 In the new Bangkok air terminal a long sculpture on the way to international departures depicts a tug of war, demigods v. devils, in the clean bright primary colors of...
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Keeping The Secret AliveWill the CIA be great again?
Luang Prabang By Larry Joseph Calloway © A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA by Joshua Kurlantzick (Scribner, 2017) Laos is a great place to be a tourist. It...
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