Rev. Danny Fisher

Via Barry Boyce over at Shambhala Sun Space: Woody Allen mentions, of all things, Hui-Neng‘s revered Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch in a new humor piece for the New Yorker magazine. Hui-Neng and Woody Allen–together at last!

The New York Times reports on the major meeting of Tibetan exiles this week in India.

[Photo by Gilles Sabrie for the New York Times.]

I have enabled backlinks here at the blog, which will allow you to keep track in each post of other pages/blog posts/sites on the web that link to that particular post. (For an example, visit my recent post on Karen Armstrong’s proposal of a Charter for Compassion and scroll down to just below the comments.) I don’t know why I didn’t have this feature enabled to begin with, but no matter–it’s on now.

Visit Amnesty International’s page devoted to the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo here.

The editors of the Washington Post and the Boston Globe sound off on Burma’s junta, which has stepped up their attacks on pro-democracy activists by harshly sentencing several dozen demonstrators, journalists, and bloggers in recent days. The Post‘s editors write:

Those punished included 14 leaders of the 88 Generation Students group, each of whom received the draconian term of 65 years. According to Irrawaddy, 25 other activists who joined the September 2007 uprising, including five monks and several women, were given terms of up to 26 years, while the labor activist Su Su Nway was sentenced to 12 1/2 years. The charges included such “crimes” as posting information about the revolt on Web sites and having contacts with foreign media. No lawyers represented the accused; several lawyers were imprisoned last month for complaining about the unfairness of the legal process, and others were banned from the court.