Word: asia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Eradicated from India through the efforts of successive invaders by the 13th century, Buddhism--or, as its practitioners knew it, the dharma--had already expanded outward in three main variations. Theravada, which came to dominate Southeast Asia, was probably closest to the original, concentrating on meditation-aided awareness. Its monastic practitioners regarded the Buddha as a great sage but no deity...
...Western intellectual cultures, constituted one of the great spiritual bazaars of the 1970s. One of its most popular courses, after Trungpa's dialogues with such people as Timothy Leary, was a seminar offered by Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein, two former Peace Corps volunteers who returned from Southern Asia as adepts in the Theravadan practice's Vipassana meditation. Suddenly all three branches of Buddhism were teaching on American soil. It must be noted, however, that they did not necessarily teach here the way they taught anywhere else...
...whole object is to invite people who wish to visit or to work in Asia," Chan said. "People in Boston are globally oriented and do have specific interest in Singapore...
Chan said that students are increasingly more interested in Asian markets, and since Singapore is the eighth largest export market of the United States, it functions as "the gateway to Southeast Asia," for the global market," she said...
...company has 12 teams of physicians and ethnobotanists working year-round to establish relationships with native healers in 40 countries throughout Africa, Southeast Asia and South America. Skeptics, most of whom work for competing drug companies, suggest that Shaman cannot depend on primitive healers, who are seen as a cross between country doctors and clerics...