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According to a 2008 report from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, Buddhism has become the third most popular religion in the US after Christianity and Judaism. In fact, the most complex Buddhist city in the world is now Los Angeles, where there are more than 300 Buddhist temples and centers, representing nearly all of Buddhist practices around the world.

As per CNN, “programs and workshops educating inmates about meditation and yoga are sprouting up across the country.” In December this year, Thomas Dyer, a former Marine and one-time Southern Baptist pastor, will head to Afghanistan as the first Buddhist chaplain in the history of the U.S. Army.

It is not Buddhism alone. According to a report in Newsweek, Americans are “becoming more like Hindus”.

The East-West twain are finally beginning to meet, it seems.

Buddhist villagers of Banglung village in Assam's Karbi Anglong district are faced with a peculiar problem.

Hundreds of storks nesting on a sacred peepal tree are threatening the tree's survival. Several branches of the tree have already dried up because of infection caused by the birds' presence and their weight.

The villagers had thought of chasing the birds away but did not do so because it is against their religion. So, they have asked the forest department to take steps to protect both the tree and the storks.

Some lesson in living harmoniously with nature, even each other, for all of us.

Perhaps the Chinese, who are busy destroying Tibet's culture and changing its demographics by pushing in Han settlers, would also do well to re-learn the teachings of Buddha from the people they are oppressing.