As Stephen Batchelor has recently shown, the open-minded, non-authoritarian side of Buddhism, too, quickly succumbed to its theocratic side, gasping under the weight of those heavy statues.
NEWYORKER: The Big Reveal
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The task of balancing the promotion of democracy with safeguarding America's security interests became harder still as Mrs Clinton travelled eastward to Azerbaijan an authoritarian state, yet an important provider of non-Russian oil and gas and a vital transit route for America's troops to Afghanistan.