Word: buddha
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...candle-snuffers of Afghanistan's Taliban have destroyed, with heavy machine guns and mortars and other explosives, the two magnificent statues of Buddha, 125 feet and 175 feet tall, that have stood for centuries in Bamiyan, an oasis town on the Old Silk Road, in a long valley separating the chain of the Hindu Kush from the Koh-i-baba range...
Heraclitus - "the obscure philosopher," the pre-Socratic thinker who was a contemporary 2,500 years ago of Confucius, Lao Tzu and the Buddha - is best known as the man who said that you cannot put your foot into the same river twice...
...Chinese minibuses were soon squealing out of the parking lot in convoys, and I told my driver to follow. The minibuses wound back down the hill and parked before a temple with a giant sculpture of a reclining Buddha. The temple didn't have much in the way of meditative calm. Before the Buddha stood two pretty girls in cotton-candy dresses who for $1.20 posed for photos with their pet python. It was curled up miserably in a basin with its mouth taped shut. Next to them were two more girls with a peacock. Downstairs at the entrance, shops...
...guru is "kind, knowing, giving. Like Buddha of old, you can be a persuasive speaker," the website says...
...fled the turbulence of the late '60s in search of inner and outer peace. The only woman among 60 monks, she learned the chants, devotional rituals and what she considers to be the essence of Tibetan Buddhism: the practice of visualization, or imagining yourself a Buddha to become one. "Buddhism is a come-and-see model," she says. "Meditation is the path. You don't have to accept dogma. You have to spend time on the cushion." Her time on the cushion has yielded the upcoming memoir Dreaming Me: An African American Woman's Spiritual Journey...