Word: buddhists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case is nothing special. I am a simple Buddhist monk--no more, no less." he said. expressing hope that the award would focus attention on compassion in every human being...
...This prize may open more people's eyes to look at their own quality," said the Buddhist leader, who wore sandals and traditional red-and-orange robes...
...Burma's myriad pagodas, those words from the Buddhist Okasa prayer are often on the lips of worshipers these days. They are an incantation against the five enemies -- water, fire, robbers, people who wish evil on others, and rulers. Down through the centuries, it is the last category that has been most feared. But rarely in living memory have the Burmese so urgently believed they needed protection from their rulers...
...over rash of heavily impastoed, drippy dots. Far less theatrical but also keenly focused on subject matter and technique, sculptor Katsura Funakoshi creates blank-faced portraits of everyday people whose looks betray neither race nor nationality. Made from camphorwood, his torsos are as skillfully carved as the ancient Buddhist sculptures whose construction they recall. Psychologically intense, they are also a little bit spooky...
...atmosphere, colored by streams of newcomers including policemen and even Buddhist monks, changed from tragic to almost festive. A miracle was revealing itself in the center of this ancient empire, a truth which had been buried so deep and so long that it had almost been forgotten: the miracle is their own strength. It is their own strength that the Chinese people are rediscovering right at this moment...