Lobsang Tenzin Negi is the founder and director of Drepung Loseling Monastery in  Atlanta. He directs the Emory-Tibet Partnership, which focuses on Buddhist meditation and science. He is an expert on Tibetan Buddhism and meditation.

The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers includes indigenous women from the Americas, Asia and Africa who first convened in 2004. Their alliance emphasizes prayer and education to protect the Earth and indigenous ways of life. The group’s office is in Sonora, Calif. Contact using the form on their website.

The Hindu Association of Hong Kong serves nearly 100,000 Hindus from South, South East and Far East Asia. The Temple complex is a declared heritage building according to local authorities. Contact the temple priest, Shri. Hiro Sharma.

The Sri Ranganathar Swamy Temple in India has a website that provides resources on Hindu worship, temples, festivals and practices. It is based in Tamil Nadu, India.

The International Center for Research on Women works on a wide variety of issues of importance to women in Asia and East Africa. Press contact is Jeannie Bunton, vice president of external relations.

Sakhi for South Asian Women is a community-based organization in the New York metropolitan area committed to ending violence against women of South Asian origin. Contact executive director Kavita Mehra.

Read a Sept. 5, 2012 Patheos article about the violence in Burma and the conflict stemmed from the discourse between race and religion.

Thomas W. Simons Jr. directs the Program on Eurasia in Transition at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and is a fellow at the center. His expertise is in modern and contemporary Islam, South and Southwest Asia, and East-West relations.