Monk’s hunger strike leads to Sri Lanka Muslim ministers’ resignations, a Zen master will send 10,000 tons of food to North Korean kids, and a California man tries to pass his swastika off as a Tibetan symbol. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.

In a recent interview, University of Michigan professor Scott Kurashige, author of The Shifting Ground of Race, notes a parallel between the hostility toward Japanese-Americans during WWII and hostility toward Muslims in America today. Kurashige notes that in both cases, the United States was attacked on its own soil by a foreign enemy, leaving Americans […]