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Cold Mountain was not a place but a man, an 8th century Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty who quit the imperial court and retired to a mountain community of Buddhist monks and hermits. There, for the rest of his life, he wrote verses (strict in form, four couplets to a page, each a small tower of vertical characters) declaring his independence from the material "world of dust." Cold Mountain was one of those jokester sages in whom Buddhist culture -- Zen Buddhism in particular -- abounded. Marden, whose interest in Oriental poetry had been deepening in the 1980s, seized...
...more than a year. Although she was already under house arrest at the time, her party won a landslide victory in the May 1990 parliamentary elections, taking 392 of the 485 seats. But the generals refused to surrender power. Instead they arrested scores of elected parliamentarians and hundreds of Buddhist monks...
Lwin signed up for six years with the reserves in 1988, about the time he applied for U.S. citizenship. But the violence of drills clashed with the peaceful approach to life advocated by his Buddhist religion...
...stakes are not uncompromisingly biblical: heaven on the one hand, hell on the other. The spirit is much more Buddhist: good souls are permitted to go on to a new life, while unworthy ones are sent back to earth to try again. After you've been to Judgment City, the second alternative is not entirely appealing. The highly evolved locals jocularly refer to earthlings as "little brains," because they employ only 2% or 3% of their mental capacity. A step backward becomes particularly dispiriting to Daniel after he meets a brave, smart woman named Julia (played by a sexily beaming...
Funding for the project will come from a Buddhist group in Japan, according to Montgomery. The project will award three or four doctoral fellowships, as well as various grants to other interested scholars and researchers. The center will also sponsor conferences and publications as needed...