Asia in Arkansas

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  • Southeast Asian Refugees in Arkansas

    Southeast Asian Refugees in Arkansas

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    What can we learn from the history of refugees in the state of Arkansas? In April of 1975, Fort Chaffee, near Fort Smith, Arkansas, was announced along with three other locations across the US as one the processing centers for Southeast Asian refugees who were escaping the Vietnam and Cambodian wars, through the 1975 Indochina…

  • Tibetan Cultural Institute of Arkansas

    Tibetan Cultural Institute of Arkansas

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    In today’s article, I had the opportunity to sit down with Ven. Geshe Thupten Dorjee, a co-founder of The Tibetan Culture Institute of Arkansas (TCIA) to learn more about the organization and its place in the community. TCIA was founded in 2006 by Ven. Geshe Thupten Dorjee, an ordained Tibetan Buddhist monk, and Professor Sidney…