Word: buddhisme
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...what is likely good documentary form, Kerouac brings up all these issues without dwelling on any one in particular. The key issues surface--the author's Oedipal ties to his mother, his dabblings in Buddhism and his benzedrine-induced writing method, but although they're faithfully examined, Antonoli doesn't go beyond a cursory treatment of the straight facts...
...Romantic philosopher an awakened appreciation for primitive wisdom, the original versus the classic in poetry. Herder and Schelling are seen as the primary influences on Novalis's later search for a universal religion. He also discover overlays of Oriental motifs and values in "The Iranian Nieztsche" and "The Buddhism of Wagner...
...that first made heads turn in American literary circles. Giinsberg, who finished "Howl" in 1956, was part of an American troupe of writers which included novelists Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs and poets Gregory Corso and Philip Whalen. Known for their experiments with hallucinogens, affection for jazz, dabblings in Buddhism and spontaneous lifestyles, the Beatniks formed one of the major literary movements in the post-modern era. In the midst of the 58-year-old Ginsberg's East Coast tour to promote his new book, Collected Poems 1947-1980, he took an hour to talk to The Crimson...
...pain, which was partly the result of never having been alone before." Thus it was in 1973, after divorcing her second husband, that Deirdre Blomfield-Brown decided to change her name and her life by beginning a novitiate in the 2,500-year-old tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Today Ane Pema Cho-dron, 47, whose name means "lotus dharma torch," is executive director of a meditation center in Boulder, Colo., and probably the only American woman to have been fully ordained as a Buddhist nun. The mother of two children and a former elementary school teacher in California...
...plastic bag of drugs he smiles for at the show's beginning. He shakily picks up a red diary, saying "Mom, I want to tell you about war." His eyes gaze on scenes of destruction: he is not with us, but in insight into killing, drugs. Buddhism and He tells his mom how he kicked over a castle one of the army men as building along the beach. It is as though he is speaking of our nation and the death of our 35th President. And that idea reverberates throughout--the collection of soliloquies...