Word: buddhism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nepal became a stronghold of late Buddhism and its imagery when it retreated from Islam, which swept through India during the 12th century. Sequestered in the Himalayas, the religion existed in one of its headiest forms short of Zen-Tantric Buddhism. Its credo begins with the Adi-Buddha, a primordial god of ultimate beauty...
...encounter of Moni Mekhala, Goddess of Waters, with Ream Eyso, the Storm Spirit. If the mythology was a little confusing, that was only what the world had come to expect of His Royal Highness Norodom Sihanouk Varman, Cambodia's Retired King, Commander in Chief, Supreme National Leader of Buddhism - and known to some unkind Western detractors as "Snookie...
...Unless Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and other sects are merged into or replaced by a great One Religion, sectarianism will continue to divide the world and communities into self-centered groups, isolate peoples, use sectarian prejudice for political advantage, and stimulate conflict which is deadly dangerous in the atomic-space...
...with the capture of Troy in about 1250 B.C., which launched the Greeks' thrust into Asia Minor. Since that time, the East has rebounded with two long periods of ascendancy-one following the Persian conquests under Darius (522 B.C.), the other from roughly A.D. 400 to 1000, when Buddhism was sweeping Asia and Europe was plunged in the Dark Ages. The West was ascendant from 331 B.C., when Alexander swept through Asia Minor and into India, to about A.D. 200, when Roman power in the Near East crumbled. The second era of Western ascendancy began around 1500 and extended...
...Chinese!" a famous German Sinologist, Ernst Grosse, had exclaimed when he bought 16 of Bissier's works in 1919. "I was puzzled," says Bissier, but in 1920 he began studying Zen Buddhism, and at length saw what Grosse meant. "The key element of my work is the balance of contrasting things," he says. He seeks with the brevity of his brushstroke what he calls the "concept of bipolarity": the yin-yang principle of gentle seesawing between the male and female, the calm and the restless, always seeking the ultimate equation that man can never quite strike...