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...sacred MacGuffin has been stolen; you go get it back), Ong-Bak needs the things Jaa can add. And there are plenty. As Ting, a country-boy studying to be a monk who has been taught Muay Thai martial arts and goes to Bangkok to retrieve a missing Buddha head, Jaa battles a series of Asian and Caucasian bruisers with fists, feet, elbows, head--he uses them all in his full-body barrage--with a sleek intensity and jaw-swiveling impact unique in movie martial arts. He also knows how to take a fall. In one match, he gets...
...YOURS TOLD A REPORTER, "HE'S RIGHT UP THERE WITH THE DALAI LAMA, THE BUDDHA AND JESUS." WHAT ABOUT THAT? I wish, I wish...
...monastery he is housed in, Nhat Hanh is unruffled by all the attention he's receiving. "I know we will be observed by many people, even by-especially by-the police," he told TIME. "But we don't mind because we believe the police officers also have the Buddha nature. If you radiate joy, compassion, understanding, peace and calm, they will be able to appreciate it and profit from it." He said he planned to visit detained Buddhist dissidents as well as official church leaders, and hoped his visit would relax the official attitude toward religion...
...What would the Buddha say to an unemployed young man in Bihar today? Almost nothing about God, heaven or the afterlife. As Mishra points out, the Buddha "either ignored or denied just about every piety?God, soul, eternity?that was current in his time and was to form the basis of many subsequent religions." His promise to his followers was not salvation in heaven but an end to suffering on earth, if they reined in their desires. At the heart of the Buddha's message is the idea that humans do not possess a steady, unchanging self; instead...
...tribute to Mishra's ability to link India's past to its present that he has turned a book on the Buddha into a social commentary of immense urgency about contemporary India?especially the parts of the country, like Bihar, which are far removed from the glamorous boomtowns like Bangalore. Ironically, it is not the solution Mishra offers (Buddhism) but the problem he identifies?the restlessness in India's heartland?that really lingers in the reader's mind. Mishra may well be right?Buddhism, with its emphasis on curbing desire, might be an answer to India's problems?but nothing...