Bill Crane has been a per diem interfaith chaplain at Boston Medical Center for five years. He began hospital chaplaincy training after a 42-year career as an attorney and is a long-term Buddhist practitioner. He can be reached at billcrane1945@yahoo.com. A pdf version can be downloaded here. In a well-known jataka tale, the Buddha, as a bodhisattva in a previous lifetime, is said to have looked down from the edge of a cliff to see a starving tigress and her cubs. Gazing at the tigress’s … [Read more...]