Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. A court stayed her lethal injection that was scheduled for Sept. 30.

This matrix of Dharma lists, traditionally ascribed to "Nāgārjuna" but certainly from centuries later, shows both medieval Buddhism's pedagogical continuity with early Buddhism as well as its accretions and innovations, giving us a feeling for how Buddhism evolved during this period.