Sinhalese-Buddhist nationalist Gotabaya Rajapaksa elected president of Sri Lanka, the pope meets with Thailand’s supreme Buddhist patriarch, and rival Karmapas co-author a prayer. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.

A dharma lesson in recognizing the goodness in others

In his address to Congress, Pope Francis drew attention to an unlikely American: the Trappist monk Thomas Merton, who played no small role in popularizing Buddhism in the West.