Word: buddhism
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...world-renowned Buddhist scholar, Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh has become almost synonymous with the words reconciliation and healing. Exiled by both North and South in the 1960s, he focused his concepts of mindfulness and "engaged Buddhism" into retreats for American veterans struggling to build inner peace from the ravages of the Vietnam War. He's published more than 80 books, built monasteries in France and the U.S. and was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by Martin Luther King Jr., who said his anti-war stance was inspired by the Zen master's teachings...
...gone out of control from my original idea, and my fashion shows had become big theatrical events.”Bartlett decided to put his business on hold for a year, something that is rare in the fashion industry. He went to Cambodia and Thailand, practicing Buddhism and yoga, and finding himself.After his hiatus, Bartlett stepped back into the industry with a small collection shown at the Harvard Club of New York. Since then, he’s become a more down-to-earth designer, offering clothes that are classic and sensible, while still being edgy...
...successful in evoking richly ornate Tibetan monasteries. A white table upstage bore the image of the Dalai Lama and a three-dimensional mandala and torma, ritual offerings usually made of yak butter or ground barley. One graduate student in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, a specialist in Tibetan Buddhism, speculated that the table served as a throne, with the Dalai Lama’s image acting as a manifestation of His presence...
...with tools that worked for me and may work for them.” A self-confessed former “workshop junkie,” Rader said his curriculum and teaching technique have been heavily influenced by the thinking of Carl Jung, among others, as well as Tibetan Buddhism. Writing, he says, should be an ego-less process. Through exercises such as the exploration of students’ pasts and their own “falls from grace,” Rader says he wished to cultivate an understanding of the role of the screenwriter as a conduit...
...Stravinsky and Henri Cartier-Bresson among his friends. But 35 years ago he went to Nepal to become a Buddhist monk. When a European scientist from the Himalayas takes us into the meaning of well-being, the result is something that does not belong to East or West, to Buddhism or to neuroscience. It tells, instead, a simple truth: we can change the world by changing the way we look at it. -By Pico Iyer...