by Alice Schmitzhofer | Feb 14, 2024 |
Our world faces many crises, both collectively and on individual levels. People are deeply divided along ideological, social, economic, and political lines. But perhaps worst of all, many people feel lost and lonely, unable to connect to each other, themselves, or the...
by Alice Schmitzhofer | Feb 1, 2024 |
The Flame of Hope joined Tushar Gandhi (great grandson of Mahatma Gandhi), Rev. Joel King (nephew of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.), and Gregory Foster (nephew of Coretta Scott-King) to launch A Season For Nonviolence at the International Peace Museum (IPM) in Dayton,...
by Alice Schmitzhofer | Jan 6, 2024 |
The tragic events on October 7th, 2023 and every day afterward have wreaked severe trauma and pain on both the Palestinian and Israeli communities. The heart of Mahayana Buddhism says that the key to achieving wisdom and unifying with the Great Spirit lies with...
by Sanno Banba | Jan 5, 2024 |
Flame of Hope India Mission 2023 Sanno Bamba I landed at the airport in Bodhgaya with the Flame of Hope to participate in the International Sangha Forum, held at the invitation of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Ryokyu Endo, Flame of Hope Ambassador from Japan, was...
by Miwa Tamamoto | Dec 30, 2023 |
Dutch ‘Freedom Fire’ unites people locally and internationally The first ‘Freedom Fire’ originated in 1948 In 1948 the Liberation Fire was brought by Montgomery in Portsmouth to the D-day beach in Normandy. Then taken to Wageningen by Nijmegen...
by Miwa Tamamoto | Dec 30, 2023 |
At the Liberation festival in Alkmaar, The Netherlands On 5th of May 2023, we were honored to receive the Dutch ‘Freedom Fire’ (aka Liberation Fire) into the Flame of Hope at the annual Liberation festival in Alkmaar, the Netherlands. The Freedom Fire is the...
