Word: buddha
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...only a feeble sort of entertainment." Worried about his reputation as a serious artist in the West, Murakami rattles off a list of departures he is now taking to maintain his high-art cred. For starters, he says, he is exploring traditional Japanese materials and motifs?updated twists on Buddha statues, scrollwork, calligraphy, screen painting and a 300-year-old dye technique called yuzenzome...
Colombo, the capital, is a colorful blend of bazaars, modern stores, temples and nightclubs. In the hills northeast of the city is the former royal capital Kandy, home to the Temple of the Tooth, which features a relic said to be Buddha's upper-left incisor. To the north stand a 5th century rock fortress and the splendid ruins of two ancient cities. In the central hill country, green tea plantations stretch like corduroy over the slopes surrounding the resort town of Nuwara Eliya (Above the Clouds). A stay at the Hill Club (011-94-52-226-53; $60) will...
...Bangkok has become a magnet for antiquities from all over Asia, where the knowledgeable shopper can find anything from genuine Burmese images of the Buddha to Tibetan monastic furniture. Of course, there are also plenty of cleverly forged fakes so, as in most Asian antiquities markets, caveat emptor. With opium habiliments, shop owners don't always deceive their customers on purpose. Many are clueless as to what is real and what is a reproduction. For instance, if an "opium pipe" has a bowl made from wood or resin or anything else that's flammable, chances are it's a very...
...Ironically, the man who conceived of the Bamiyan replica, Oriental Buddha's chairman Liang Enming, was once a vice manager of Leshan's Cultural Relics Bureau, charged with protecting the very tombs he has allegedly wrecked. In the mid-'90s, Liang?whose handlers said he wasn't available to answer TIME's questions?left public service to head a private company and saw his chance when the Taliban eradicated their own cultural heritage. "This replica," he said at the time, "will make it possible for those who have never seen the statue to look for themselves at its great beauty...
...Leshan locals are angry not only at the destruction of their treasured tombs but also that Oriental Buddha was allowed to create a theme park on land their families had farmed for centuries. They criticize the local government and Leshan's Cultural Relics Bureau for handing over UNESCO-protected land to theme-park entrepreneurs and ignoring the placement of a huge buddha in an area famed for its tombs. Last week, Huang Quanchun watched in dismay as workers laden with trees marched by her ramshackle house next to the theme park. She and other locals claim that the trees...