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Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” is a short story taken from her 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club. While the story and the book are presented as fiction, there are many parallels between the character Jing-mei and Tan in real life, and between the mother in the story an

Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” is a short story taken from her 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club. While the story and the book are presented as fiction, there are many parallels between the character Jing-mei and Tan in real life, and between the mother in the story an

A Buddhist monk was on a ship with a maniac who was killing everyone, Monk decided to prevent further harm by killing him. Do you think this conforms with the principles set out in Buddhism and karma, compassion come into play in this story?

A Buddhist monk was on a ship with a maniac who was killing everyone, Monk decided to prevent further harm by killing him. Do you think this conforms with the principles set out in Buddhism and karma, compassion come into play in this story?