Buddhist monks end 'Walk for Peace'
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Walk for Peace gained millions of followers from Texas to Washington. Why are Americans following monks like they're running after Forrest Gump?
Before Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, he asked several of his friends to continue his life’s work building what he called “beloved community.” One of those people was the Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, poet and mindfulness teacher Thich Nhat Hanh.
A diverse swath of Americans searching for calm said they found some as a group of Buddhist monks finished a 2,300-mile trek from Texas to Washington.