"Both events allowed the columnist to harmonize the polarities of the San Jose condition. First of all, throughout the matrix of alter egos that have surfaced to narrate this column over the last 20 years, Herb Caen Rinpoche was always my favorite. Taking his nom de plume from the legendary San Francisco Chronicle columnist, but attaching the Tibetan Buddhist honorific, he specialized in fusing the opposites of east and west, luxury and gutter, intimacy and distance, and especially last week, the sacred with the profane."
"We begin with the legendary B. R. Ambedkar, the godfather of India's constitution and the subject of a lecture last week by Dr. Christopher Queen from Harvard. Hosted by SJSU's Humanities 10 class, Queen gave a rousing presentation in the Student Union Theatre, a venue on the lower level of Student Union East, directly opposite the art building. In the struggle for equal rights, Ambedkar should be as well known as Mahatma Gandhi."
Herb Caen Rinpoche returned to San Jose State University for two author events featuring a Harvard Buddhist scholar and a former Asian pin-up model. He used a persona that fused opposites—east and west, luxury and gutter, intimacy and distance, sacred and profane. Dr. Christopher Queen from Harvard lectured on B. R. Ambedkar at the Student Union Theatre, emphasizing Ambedkar's role as godfather of India's constitution and his contribution to the abolition of caste. Ambedkar wrote The Annihilation of Caste, converted from untouchable Hindu status to Buddhism, and dedicated his life to social, intellectual, economic, and political freedom. Ambedkar maintained a protracted disagreement with Gandhi over caste abolition and integrated liberty, equality, and fraternity with Buddhism's three jewels.
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