Word: buddha
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...Taliban government claimed it had completed the destruction of two giant statues of Buddha and closed the BBC's Afghanistan office because of the organization's coverage of the action. Photographs confirmed that a third Buddha statue had been demolished, but authorities denied access to the site of the two largest figures. Later in the week, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar ordered the slaughter of 100 cows to "atone for the delay" in destroying the statues. In an unrelated development, the U.N. suspended aid to Afghans encamped near the Tajik border because of the presence of armed men among...
...hand-over of Hong Kong to mainland China is a relatively minor event among the emotional cataclysms in this short-story debut. Chiu refracts classic old-vs.-new-world tensions through the prism of second-generation Chinese-American Gen-Xers, inspired more by Kurt Cobain than by Buddha. The resulting chasm between the Chinese Americans and their immigrant parents is filled with disappointments, with tales of anorexia and homophobia, and that stubborn reluctance by young and old to see each other as each wishes to be seen...
...mile of soft-stone cliff is honeycombed with caves, many of them bearing ancient Buddhist wall paintings dating back to around the 4th to the 5th century A.D. The core of this already much defaced religious center, as it once was, consists of two gigantic standing figures of Buddha, recessed into the cliffs sometime between the 3rd and 6th centuries. The larger of them is 175 ft. high--purportedly the biggest standing Buddha in the world. On Saturday, a spokesman for Mohammed Omar claimed to the Associated Press that soldiers using explosives had "destroyed 80% of the statues. There...
Heraclitus, the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived and wrote 2,500 years ago--around the same time as Confucius, Lao Tzu and the Buddha--is best known as the man who said you cannot put your foot into the same river twice...
...Afghanistan's Taliban destroyed ancient Buddha statues because...