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...LOVE IT This is elevated soap opera filmed with patience and subtlety. A Taipei family tiptoes individually and together to the precipice of crisis: a father whose business needs a new-media fix from a Japanese swami (the marvelous Issey Ogata), a mother who seeks emotional solace in a Buddhist retreat, plus other hearts breaking from romantic despair or breaking down from old age. Opening with a wedding fracas and closing with a funeral, Yi Yi puts the trials of three generations delicately on view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Winners' Tales | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...during a visit to a temple of 1,000 Buddhas in Bangkok, Jan Willis lingered over a single, ungilded statue. Unlike its golden neighbors, the Buddha was black. In that moment, the assurances of her Buddhist teacher--"You're already a Buddha; you just have to manifest it"--became real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Color and The Cushion | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

...Buddhism at Wesleyan University. At her home in Middletown, Conn., she points to a snapshot of the 1981 encounter, noting that only after a decade of meditation was she able to examine her blackness. She adds, "I became able to deal with the deep wounds of race because of Buddhist practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Color and The Cushion | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

...personal. In the U.S., she contends, Buddhism remains a religion of white elites. The few practicing African Americans tend to belong to Soka Gakkai International, a school of the religion that emphasizes simple chanting, usually for prosperity. Willis prefers a more rigorous dharma and is developing meditations for Buddhist centers that focus on race. Her teachings have not yet reached the masses, but, as she is quick to point out, "I'm not a proselytizer." She is, however, a philosopher with a bold agenda. "People tell you for centuries that you're just a cattle, just a beast of burden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Color and The Cushion | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

...could be doing a lot of community outreach over the next four years," Borowitz said. "Visiting Buddhist temples is a favorite activity...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Will Massachusetts Hall Be Next Stop For Gore? | 11/9/2000 | See Source »

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