Buddhism -- India's gift to Steve Jobs

New York, Oct 6 (PTI) Like it has done to so many icons
across the world, India was the source of spirituality to
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who later converted to Buddhism.
Jobs had taken a "spiritual retreat to India" and
"traversing through the country had sparked Jobs' conversion
to Buddhism," a CNN report said.
Jobs had travelled to India in the late 1970s, with money
he had saved working as a technician at a video games
manufacturer in the US.
He reportedly visited the Neem Karoli Baba at his Kainchi
Ashram with a Reed College friend Daniel Kottke in search of
spiritual enlightenment.
Born in 1955 in San Francisco, Jobs grew up amid the rise
of hippie counter-culture. Bob Dylan and the Beatles were his
two favourite musical icons and he shared their political
leanings and anti-establishment views.
"Like the Beatles, Jobs took a spiritual retreat to India
and regularly walked around his neighbourhood and the office
barefoot," the CNN report said. PTI YAS
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