{"id":649,"date":"2006-04-16T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-16T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=649"},"modified":"2006-04-16T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-16T14:33:00","slug":"649","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pagans and the Dalai Lama<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some California Pagan friends attended <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2006\/04\/15\/MUSLIM.TMP\">this event with the Dalai Lama<\/a>. Yes, the headline says that it was about the image of Islam, but apparently the 500 &#8220;scholars and religious leaders&#8221; included some Pagans, including the Pagan chaplain of the state prison system.<\/p>\n<p>One of them, M. Macha NightMare, writes about <a href=\"http:\/\/besom.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/sacredness.html\">getting ready for the event<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I confess that I would normally rather clean my closets than attend large interfaith events, but that&#8217;s just me. Huston Smith would have been interesting to hear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pagans and the Dalai Lama Some California Pagan friends attended this event with the Dalai Lama. Yes, the headline says that it was about the image of Islam, but apparently the 500 &#8220;scholars and religious leaders&#8221; included some Pagans, including the Pagan chaplain of the state prison system. One of them, M. 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