Lion's Roar

WHEN DID THE WAR BEGIN?

THERE’S A MOMENT in reading War and Peace when I say, “Tolstoy! You Buddhist you!”

At this point, I’m almost a thousand pages in. Tolstoy’s love of humanity is clear. He understands their frailties and failings, their quotidian concerns. He scorns the selfish, upholds the

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