Sri Lankan Monk on Dealing with Tsunami Disaster

NPR | By Rob Sachs

Published December 31, 2004 at 12:00 AM EST

Walpola Piyananda, a Buddhist monk, shares his experience as a Sri Lankan spiritual leader in the United States, in the wake of the tsunami that devastated his native country.

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