In his recent trip to Asia, U.S. President Barack Obama toured two Buddhist temples, Shwedagon Pagoda in Burma and Wat Pho temple in Thailand. Below is a shoeless President standing in front of Shwedagon Padoga. For more photographs, see this image gallery of the President and the Buddha. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza.)
awesome!
re: the politics/spirituality interface, here’s a beautiful interview with David Loy (a Zen Buddhist teacher/scholar) which touches on issues such as: the nonduality of personal transformation & social transformation; and how in changing our perception we can create new worlds.