During my tenure as Director and Dean of Global College, I spent fifteen years traveling with students through Japan, China, Taiwan, Thailand, India, Nepal, South Africa, Costa Rica, Turkey and Israel. This cross-cultural work with radically different notions of the self, feelings and desire transformed my understanding of Buddhist practice.
Celebrating with new friends after a Shinto ceremony outside Kyoto, Japan. Circa 1998
On the way to the Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar, 2000
In Israel, on a field trip to the top of Mt. Sinai, the location of the story of Moses and Ten Commandments
An audience with the Dalai Lama in Dharmsala, 2012
During a tour of sacred sites of China in the summer of 1999.
In front of the Golden Temple, from the Comparative Religion and Culture student yearbook, 2000