It was at a meeting with the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation’s chairman that I was first acquainted with Bill Porter. Robert Y.C. Ho had introduced
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* “What used to be done by Religion has to be done alone by Art.” – Saburo Hasegawa, in a letter to Isamu Noguchi. January
Later this month in April and early May, people across the world will celebrate Vesak in many different ways, but they are bound together by a special
