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By Amanda Heller
Globe Correspondent / March 21, 2010

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Like many young people in the 1970s, Stephen Batchelor turned to the East in search of some deeper truth than what was available to him in suburban London. Unlike many of his contemporaries’ journeys, however, his was literal, and when he reached the East, he stayed. After studying in India under the exiled Dalai Lama, Batchelor was ordained a Buddhist ... (Full Article: 575 Words)

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