January 25, 1967 The Nobel Institute? Drammesnsveien 19 ?Oslo, NORWAY Gentlemen: As the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate of 1964, I now have the pleasure of
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This is a shortened and edited version of an article I wrote for the recently published second volume of Book B. Book B is a contemporary series of
A long time ago, monks in India debated about the importance of “study” and “practice,” trying to sort out whether their loyalties lay as “monks
