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...part of the exhibition is dedicated to the lives of those exiled. An important element of Tibetan culture and spiritual life in Switzerland is the Monastic Institute in the town of Rikon. When the first refugees started arriving four decades ago, the Dalai Lama sent several monks and an abbot to Rikon, where the exiles congregated, to provide them with spiritual care. Today the monastery continues to preserve and promote Tibetan culture. The monks, with their lifelong study of the Buddha's teachings, have always been at the heart of Tibet's religion. Living in isolation from secular concerns...
Photographs in the main hall at the Labrang Monastery convey Tibet's plight: of five portraits on display, the Dalai Lama is exiled, three others are dead or their identities disputed, and the last, Labrang's abbot, is barred from living with his monks. The local party committee hung a sign calling the spiritual place "a center for patriotic study." Even so, Labrang teems with 2,000 monks and many pilgrims, who are often Chinese. "Older monks feel differently, but I didn't go through the Cultural Revolution, so I welcome them," says a monk too young to remember China...
Ingalls' second work, An Anthology of Sanskrit Court Poetry, published in 1968, contained his own translation and commentary on verses collected by the Buddhist abbot Vidyakara...
...have been no trial had the issue simply been a matter of lack of foresight. These were politicians, after all, not medical experts. However, Fabius, Herv? and Dufoix are accused of delaying the implementation of mandatory blood screening, even though government scientists had already vetted a test devised by Abbot, an American company. Delaying the final approval of that test was seen as a way to give a French company, Diagnostics-Pasteur, a crucial head start for its own product in what was expected to become a lucrative market. The fact that Fabius's health adviser at the time...
...show up at class with mismatched socks, and the prof can even tell you why. Sociology 150: "The Social Underpinnings of Taste," taught by Abbot Lawrence Lowell Professor of Sociology Stanley Lieberson makes a class out of fashion and pop culture. Enjoy...