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...Akshobhya Buddha The founder of a Taiwan-based Buddhist association received this 1,300-year-old head?sawed from its torso at the Four Gate Pagoda in northeastern China in 1997?as a gift from his disciples. He returned it to China...
...said, ‘Rick looked so relaxed, completely comfortable in the present, he looked like a Buddha.’ ‘That’s why I love him,’ Joy said. The truth was,” Allen chuckles, “I had no idea what was going on. I seemed the ideal of non-attachment because I was going to flunk the course...
...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...
Each Dalai Lama is believed to be the Buddha of Compassion, reincarnated to serve the population...
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...