Word: buddha
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...formation so that they faced each other rather than the audience, the monks began their performance by silently unwrapping the unassuming white bundles already laid out in front of them, revealing brilliant blue embroidered silks. The silks displayed the crown of the five Buddha families and the other accoutrements of the deity in preparation for The Vajra Master Initiation from the Yamantaka Tantra, the first piece of the evening. They quietly donned the silks and hats, each flank of the “V” formation waiting until all its members were ready to flip the petalled capes over...
...lazy-looking dreadlocked puli. He has three laptops full of music in his living room but can't work iTunes on any of them, and when friends stop by, he greets them with well-intended but lung-collapsing hugs. He's your classic effortlessly amiable clumsy dude--a metaphorical Buddha in a terry-cloth robe...
...those interested in a classier package and more novelistic read, Vertical, Inc., publisher of the Buddha series by revered manga author Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989), has just released his single volume Ode to Kirihito (825 pages; $25). Best known for his stories on themes of the power of love and karmic justice, here Tezuka has created a sophisticated medical horror story, with so much perversity that it may permanently change the master's American reputation as the Japanese Walt Disney. Though it retains Tezuka's core interest in the karmic consequences of immoral behavior, in this particular book he seems...
ENLIGHTENED READING If the typical graphic novel is too action packed for you, here's something a bit more Zen: the fourth volume of Buddha--a 10-part series--tells the story of the epic figure's life and journey toward Nirvana...
...unique sound that centered around ceaseless beats, catchy, allusive lyrics, and diverse musical traditions. With their sophomoric effort “Talk to La Bomb,” Brazilian Girls unroll another chic dose of electronic, lounge, jazz, and house in the same vein of sound popularized by Buddha Bar and their compilations...