Word: bodhi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beginning the Buddha found enlightenment underneath the bodhi tree, near what is now Nepal. A pampered prince born around 563 B.C., he frustrated his father's efforts to shield him from the sights of suffering and death, became a wandering holy man and eventually formulated the Four Noble Truths that unite all Buddhists today: that life is full of suffering; that most of that suffering, including the fear of death, can be traced to "desire," the mind's habit of seeing everything through the prism of the self and its well-being; that this craving can be transcended, leading...
Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle St., Harvard Square. 876-6837. "My Life to Live" at 4:15 and 7:45 and "Two or Three Things I Know About Her" at 6 and 9:30 on Thursday, March 17. "Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?" at 4:45 and 7:30 on Friday, March 18 through Sunday, March 20, with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. "Between the Teeth" at 10 on Friday, March 18 through Sunday, March 20. "Mona Lisa" at 3:45 and 7:50 and "The Long Good Friday...
...walk around his church, as airy and futuristic and free of Christian iconography, almost, as a Hyatt Regency hotel, you can see that the heart of his scripture is simple optimism, on the surface scarcely different from that espoused by New Age gurus across the state (in the Bodhi Tree bookstore, Create Your Own Future tapes are on sale, made by a Stanford professor...