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...that when he started construction on the lush, waterfall-laden, 43-m man-made mountain in front of his new hotel, the rumor in town was that he was building a ski resort on the Strip. But Wynn Las Vegas, which opened in April, exudes an anti-Vegas, almost Buddhist quietude. There's no theme, no showstopper like the volcano he built outside the Mirage in 1989, the pirate ships he put outside Treasure Island in 1993 or the giant pond he created with fountains choreographed to songs for the front of the Bellagio in 1998. "Theme parks...
Ratti contacted the Buddhist chaplain at MIT, who is also a member of a Buddhist organization in Sri Lanka, and arranged for a prototype of the student’s design to be built as a community center in Sri Lanka...
...CLOSED. THAM KRABOK CAMP, home to ethnic Hmong refugees from neighboring Laos since 1992; following an agreement by the U.S. to accept most of its remaining 5,000 residents under a refugee resettlement deal; in Tham Krabok, Thailand. Located 130 km north of Bangkok on the grounds of a Buddhist temple, the camp once housed as many as 20,000 people. Its closure marks the end of a nearly three-decade-long project to resettle more than 300,000 Hmong, who were enlisted by the U.S. to fight communists in Laos and were consequently persecuted by the ruling regime...
...event featured a screening of the 42-minute long documentary, as well as a question and answer session with Eck, Antell, and the three women featured in the film: Dr. Laila Al-Marayati, a Muslim, Dr. Shamita Das Dasgupta, a Hindu, and Mushim Ikeda-Nash, a Buddhist...
...families and religious communities. Eck points out that “we understand that being ‘Hindu’ may involve a strong critique of Hindu institutions, and yet a sense that religion is very important to the women who come to Manushi [Mushim’s Buddhist women’s network] with issues of domestic abuse...