Uganda's First Buddhist Monk
DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 10, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 10, 2026 "Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves." — Henry David Thoreau Uganda's First Buddhist Monk A boy raised Catholic in Kampala flew to India in 1990 to earn an MBA and returned, seven years later, with a shaved head, brown robes, and a large Buddha statue that customs officials mistook for witchcraft. What Bhante Buddharakkhita built from that improbable homecoming — a meditation hall, a school, a clinic, and a borehole bringing clean water to a lakeshore vi...