Wednesday 30 April 2008

INFORMATION ABOUT HISTORY OF DHARMA YATRAS.

This link;
http://www.suanmokkh.org/ds/dy/index.htm
offers some information about  Dharma Yatra's.

Cut and paste or copy the above web address into Google.

In Thailand and other places they have strong and very active traditions of Dharma Yatra's- Peace Walks.
I lived in Thailand for 4 years and witnessed and participated in many Yatra's there.

To see films onYoutube about various aspects of Dharma Yatra please type in the Youtube search box the following titles;
1. Dharma Yatra movie,
2. Dharma river Yatra 1, 
3. Dharma river,
and
4. " Thich Nhat Hanh on Burma" which will expalin the role of Dharma Yatra's in Vietnam during the American war there and also how the philosophy of peace and non confrontation which is central to Yatra practise influence Martin Luther King in USA.