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...first intercontinental flight. Encountering a laptop-bearing reporter, Ogyen Trinley Dorje inquired eagerly about the computer; like his mentor, he's apparently a Mac fan. Asked if he'd managed to sleep on the plane, he replied, "Sleep, but not well. Lot of ..." Then, his maroon robe dancing, the 17th reincarnated head of Tibetan Buddhism's Kagyu sect offered an enthusiastic mime of a bumpy transoceanic flight...
...constant back-and-forth of Buddhist scholars between India and China nourished the Silk Road as an avenue of commerce. Sometimes religious divines explicitly advanced the process of globalization long before anyone knew of the word. I collect maps of the provinces of China drawn by Martino Martini, a 17th century Italian Jesuit missionary whose exquisite cartography revealed China to the world-and, indeed, to the Chinese themselves...
...also counting for Culture and Belief, will be adapted from Folklore and Mythology 100. Humanities 27, taught by English professor Stephen J. Greenblatt, will become English 127: “A Silk Road Course: Travel and Transformation on the High Seas: An Imaginary Journey in the early 17th Century” and count toward the Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding requirement this fall. The acting chair of the comparative literature department also saw two of her courses welcomed into the new curriculum. Susan R. Suleiman’s “French 132b. 20th-Century French Fiction II: The Experimental Mode?...
...Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the 17th Karmapa, or head of the Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism, sat at his ease in a throne-like overstuffed chair, rimless rectangular glasses perched on his pleasantly round, shaven head, a yellow shirt peeking out from underneath a dark red robe, feet in pebbled brown loafers. Reputedly stern, the Karmapa, who spent half an hour with TIME, was both remarkably well-tempered and focused for a man who had just come off a 14-hour flight - by far his longest since he arrived in India eight years ago as a teenager after a swashubuckling escape...
...amid all the glamour, Lacroix also respects the building's history. Constructed in 1615, it is publicly listed as Paris' oldest standing boulangerie. Antique furniture and original 17th century beams are integral to the décor, and the façade, dating from 1900, lists the confections that were once on sale. Today's offerings are of a different nature, but just as sweet. www.paris-hotel-petitmoulin.com