Mountain flank covered with prayer flags, Eastern Tibet, June 2013

Gemang Monastery, Eastern Tibet, June 2013

Sunset behind a monastery, Eastern Tibet, June 2013

Minyak region, Eastern Tibet, June 2013

Excerpts from a speech given by Muhammad Yunus at the Université de la Terre, UNESCO, April 27, 2013

‟Two thirds of the population in Bangladesh has nothing to do with banks and is stuck in poverty. With empty hands, you …

Excerpts from a speech given by Muhammad Yunus at the Université de la Terre, UNESCO, April 27, 2013

‟Today’s crisis is a man-made crisis, not a natural disaster like a tsunami. How did it come about? We’ve converted the financial …

Tibetan monk in meditation at the Yilung Lhatso lake at an altitude of 12 800 feet

Stupas in Eastern Tibet

Two Tibetan monks contemplating the vastness of the high plateaus of Eastern Tibet

The media seems to play on the fascination that we seem to have with violent, malicious, and perverse actions. A criminal who commits a horrible crime will be discussed much more than a volunteer who helps the elderly. Perhaps this …

It is 7pm in February 2013. In a little village in Rajasthan, we enter a small room in a house just bordering the village pond. The room is lit by two storm lamps, recharged during the day by solar panels. …

Last February, along with friends from our humanitarian association, Karuna-Shechen, I visited our friend Sanjit ‟Bunker” Roy at the Barefoot College he founded approximately 40 years ago.

When he was 20 years old, Bunker, who was educated at one of …

Now I have some heart-advice to give you: a sky needs a sun, a mother needs a child, and a bird needs two wings. Likewise, emptiness alone is not enough. You need to have great compassion for all beings who …