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...potters and sometimes commissioned pieces from them; his approval became a signature of authorship. His passion was tea bowls - the "active," intimately handled objects of a ceremony that, imported from China, had been turned by its first Japanese grandmaster, Sen No Rikyu, into a cultural rite linked to Zen Buddhism. The "way of tea" had become an essential part of the samurai-influenced code of upper Japanese behavior. It connoted roughness, naturalness and - at its origins, at least - lack of pretension. In it, aesthetics and morality were conjoined, under the sign of severe restraint...
...scale of Europe?s industrial revolution, they?re perceived as a mortal threat to the very survival of the Chinese state. It?s that thinking that has driven the crackdown on the Falun Gong religious sect over the past 18 months. Despite the group?s apparently harmless blend of Buddhism, exercise and mysticism, the idea of a nationwide organizational structure to rival the Communist Party?s was intolerable to the leaders in Beijing. And concerns over the social impact of economic liberalization have seen Zhu increasingly eclipsed in Beijing?s leadership by hard-liners grouped around People?s Assembly chairman...
Comprised of a collection of extremely rare printed books, dating from the Song period (AD 960-1209) up to 1911, and fragments of the Jingang Sutra handwritten scrolls of the Tong Period (AD 618-906), the articles treated a wide variety of topics in history, literature and Buddhism, Cheng said...
other texts on Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism and Islam...
...less corrupt or that paying attention to my breath will stop the shootings in the inner city. But receding into my bedroom and rejecting my ability to make a difference cannot do anything at all. And as I explore philosophy and history, I find that many voices, not just Buddhism, teach the same lesson...