Sami started to believe in karma.

He owns an electric Tesla Roadster, a Fisker Karma plug in hybrid, and a Toyota Prius.

In Hinduism, abortion is considered bad karma but that is not the same as the Manichean view defended by fundamentalist Christians and the Catholic Church.

Call it karma, call it physics, action and reaction, call it precaution the principle that reminds us that life is too precious to be risked for any profit.

In the first trial, on June 24, Karma Samdrup, 42, one of the wealthiest Tibetan businessmen in China, received a 15 year sentence from a court in Xinjiang for stealing antiques.

But local officials could not have arranged for Karma to be tried in far away Xinjiang, let alone persuade the central government to ban the brothers innocuous book about their love of nature.

Through the efforts of these three, the diverse streams of the Innermost Essence ( nying thig ) teachings of Dzogchen were brought together and codified into one of the common grounds between the Nyingma and Karma Kagyud traditions.

Abortion, while seen in a negative light, is not illegal in India, probably because it is viewed as an issue of personal morality one s karma shouldering the burden of what we in the West would call choice.

If it is true, the case against Karma suggests that officials stationed in Tibetan areas may be gaining more power, able to reach out beyond their jurisdictions to pursue what appear to be little more than personal grievances.

On August 22, 2007, a safe house wired with explosives was destroyed in the city, believed to have been an arms cache as well as a launching point for mortars that had targeted the police station in Karma.

Higher level leaders may have taken up the case against Karma persuading their counterparts in Xinjiang to resurrect the old antiques case because he had used his connections in Beijing to complain about the treatment of his brothers by officials in Tibet.