The Washington Post: Courtside Chaplains

by Danny Fisher

Bhante Walpola Piyananda, author of the wonderful memoir Saffron Days in L.A.: Tales of a Buddhist Monk in America, served as the official Buddhist chaplain for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, CA, so I guess it’s not altogether out of the question that Buddhists might get involved in this sort of chaplaincy work…