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...inscribed on the list, it not only benefits from the media attention and tourist revenue that such notoriety can bring, it also becomes eligible for a piece of UNESCO's preservation fund. In 2001, the world recoiled when the Taliban destroyed two 6th century, 150-ft. statues of Buddha carved into the mountainside in the Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan. Since it was inscribed on the list, the site has received more than $4 million to help with reconstruction and to hire a sculptor to re-carve some of the damaged stone. "Countries are under a lot of pressure...
Eight years ago, I wrapped up my elementary education at Advent Episcopal Day School in Birmingham, Ala., but I remain an ardent Calvinist. I never read Calvin, my favorite philosopher, in a Harvard class, but the miniature, striped-shirt Buddha from the 1980s Bill Watterson cartoon still affects my thinking and writing today...
...Gender Perspectives on Premodern Japan.” In the past decade, Adolphson has authored two books, “The Gates of Power: Monks, Courtiers, and Warriors in Premodern Japan,” which was published in 2000, and “The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha: Monastic Warriors and Sohei in Japanese History,” which came out this year. Kurashige said the University’s decision runs counter to the nation-wide trend of enhancing college programs in pre-modern Japanese studies. “If Harvard is phasing out this sort...
...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...