"Does anger have a religion? Does worry have a nationality?" asks the monk, looking very intently at me.
I am sitting alone in an auditorium with Geshe Dorji Damdul. One of the most renowned Buddhist scholars, the Dalai Lama's personal interpreter, and co-author of a number of the Dalai Lama's books, Damdul was in Chennai for a talk as part of the Applied Buddhist Psychology course being held at BALM (Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health).
My first question to him is whether the term "Buddhist" in Applied Buddhist Psychology would make people think that the talk and the course is about religion and hence put them off.
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