Word: buddhistically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mostly lost after the end of the Cold War. Oil companies would still love to build a pipeline through Afghanistan, but other than a corridor between the Middle East and Russia or China, it has little international value. The Taliban’s actions, such as destroying ancient Buddhist statues, have not endeared them to the Islamic world any more than to the western. The only country that recognizes the Taliban government is Pakistan, the country where many of the Taliban leaders were first indoctrinated in refugee camps they fled to as children during the protracted civil...
...beautiful and interesting excursions, the country outside Jinghong provides endless choices. Walkers can enjoy jungle jaunts along the Mekong and through Dai or Hani villages (see DETOUR). The main draw is the cultural diversity of tribal minorities. Predominantly populated by the Buddhist Dai, Banna is ethnically linked to the hill tribes of Laos, Burma and northern Thailand. Other smaller groups in the area are the Hani and Lahu peoples, mainly of Tibetan stock. Known for their hospitality and resistance to assimilation, the indigenous cultures provide a color and individualism very different from that found in other, more monolithic parts...
...Thaksin is an effortless campaigner, his languorous walk, the gradual coming together of his palms in a Buddhist greeting, the soft grip of his handshake, all his movements coalesce to communicate equilibrium, an almost soothing presence. On any street, in any temple, at any doorway, he is the calm center of the media storm that follows him everywhere. He is the first Thai politician to exploit the mass media of TV and the Internet, to understand that a good sound bite on the tube is worth much more than making his point in a sit-down meeting with...
...Having abandoned mouse-whackers, on Buddhist grounds, and having despaired of the cats as hired assassins, we have resorted to a "Havahart" trap - a small rectangular steel cage, with doors at either end and bait in the middle, that captures the mouse alive. We have caught a mouse on each of the last two nights (baiting with peanut butter, of course). I come into the kitchen and find the little prodigy, eyes bright with terror, scrunched in a corner of the cage, under the flap door. It's possible that part of his unhappiness arises from humiliation at being fooled...
...allegories, the art too is exclusively sacred in nature, and to the devout the images retain their divine powers even when on display. Like a mandala, the exhibit of Tibetan art at the Museum der Kulturen in Basel, Switzerland takes visitors on a journey through the mystic universe of Buddhist deities, monks and saints. The exhibition, which lasts through the end of October, presents one of the most important collections of Tibetan art in the world. It was compiled over three decades by a German theological scholar, Gerd-Wolfgang Essen, now 70 and living in Hamburg, Germany, who says failing...