Myanmar (formerly Burma) is ruled by a military government. The leader of the opposition National League for Democracy, which won the national elections in a landslide, has been placed under house arrest. This sociopathic regime refuses to allow world relief organizations to help the cyclone victims -- even though the death toll is much higher there than the horrific earthquake death toll in the Sichuan province of China. In Tibet, China insists that the government, NOT the Dalai Lama, shall have total control over Tibetan Buddhist practice and over determining the lineage and the Dalai Lama's successor. The United States has strict economic sanctions against Cuba, but no economic sanctions against China, one of the worst and most persistant and virulent Human Rights violators in the World today. Reminding us that not ALL practicing Buddhists have the freedom to practice. As Shakespear once wrote, "What Love can do, that dares Love attempt." Become informed. Become involved. In infinitessimally small ways, great change manifests itself.