Word: buddhists
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...meantime Sri Lanka has experienced more than a year of peace thanks to a truce between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Tourist arrivals hit 393,000 last year, nearly returning to pre-civil-war levels. And some visitors are finding the country's Buddhist sites and exquisite beaches so charming?and safe?that they want to claim a permanent piece of paradise. A mini property boom on the southern coast has begun...
...BUDDHIST ART: THE LATER TRADITION. Also at the Sackler is this comprehensive exhibit of Buddhist art from China, Korea, Japan, Tibet, and India that spans over a thousand years. Surveying the transmission of Buddhism throughout East Asia from the 10th through the 18th centuries, the exhibit features 72 pieces, including scroll paintings, Buddhist “sutras,” or sacred texts, Chinese censers, and Tibetan bell handles. See full story in last week’s issue. Through Sept. 7. Hours: Mondays through Saturdays, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Sundays...
...spoilers, whining about being frozen out of the talks, lambasting the LTTE for every violation of the truce, and claiming that life is getting harder under Wickremesinghe. On a recent trip to the ancient capital of Anuradhapura, Wickremesinghe woke at dawn to visit the holy Bo tree, a Buddhist pilgrimage destination. When the Prime Minister's convoy neared the ruins, the walkie-talkies started chattering with a surprise: Kumaratunga was already at the site. The convoy detoured and the Prime Minister wandered around the back of the ruins for half an hour. Finally he aborted the trip and went back...
...seamlessly into the snow. "Those were mine," says Jampur. "They died last winter. There was no meat on the bones, so we just took the skins and left the rest." Inside, his ger is warm and smells like a wet horse. There's a shrine with carved animals and Buddhist prayer maps, and a lightbulb and television are wired to a car battery. For weather reports, he relies on a 30-year-old Russian-made radio...
...Buddhist Art: The Later Tradition” effectively demonstrates that Buddhist iconographic conventions remained essentially the same from one country to the next over several centuries. Said Mowry, “I wanted to make sure the objects worked well together both intellectually and visually.” And, indeed, the exhibit’s visual variety and geographical diversity provides both aesthetic pleasure and insight into the history of Buddhism...