(1) i never set out to become a buddhist. (2) it happened by accident one afternoon when i stumbled into a lecture given by a tibetan lama. (3) in fact, according a pew research study conducted a few years ago there are close to 500 million buddhists worldwide. (4) the lama spoke so gently and thoughtfully about the need for compassion, especially in this day and age when violence is exploding everywhere, politics creates more problems than solutions, and more people seem to be interested in "selfies" than selflessness. (5) i had always wanted to go to tibet, though. (6) the lama spoke about his own experiences during the invasion of his homeland, and how the sense of deep compassion he'd developed during his years of monastic training him to avoid feeling hatred toward the invaders. which of the sentences detracts from the unity of the paragraph?