Word: buddhists
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...Meanwhile, aid workers say over a million Afghans are now at risk of starvation caused by years of war, drought and their government's ineptitude. To many, losing a part of their heritage in Bamiyan?and at the other Buddhist sites in Jalalabad, Ghazni and Kandahar?is only one of many tragedies inflicted on them by 20 years of ceaseless turmoil...
...Here is the author Sally Wriggins' description, in her book "Xuanzang, a Buddhist Pilgrim on the Silk Road," of what's been lost: "The first sight of the valley of the Great Buddha must have made weary travelers gasp - immense cliffs of a soft pastel color, and behind them indigo peaks dusted with snow, rising to a height of 20,000 feet. They saw the reddish cliffs in the cold, clear air; as they came closer, they could make out two gigantic statues of the Buddha standing in niches carved in the mountains. Closer still, they saw that...
...Some may go to Shantideva for consolation. It was in the eighth century, around the time that the iconoclastic synod gathered, that the Buddhist master composed the "Bodhisattvacharyavatara" or "The Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life," a classic of Mahayana Buddhism...
...Yuen never saw a prop he couldn't use to enhance a fight. His heroes and villains have used chopsticks, pigtails, calligraphy brushes, umbrellas, trash can lids and robe sleeves as impromptu weapons. Another Yuen rule: if it slithers, hops or scoots, hire it! Snakes in 1980's The Buddhist Fist; a man-size toad in the phantasmagorical Miracle Fighters of 1982; rats in Shaolin Drunkard. In the 1977 Broken Oath (the last movie Yuen action-choreographed before he turned director with the Jackie Chan Snake in Eagle's Claw), lovely, severe Angela Mao plays with scorpions; she always...
China has become a nation of spiritual seekers in the past decade, as faith in communism waned following the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre. Wang Ze, a 52-year-old consultant for frozen-foods companies, became a Tibetan-style Buddhist four years ago after meditating to the Tibetan mantra for compassion, om mani peme hum (which Dadawa later turned into a pop song). He and his wife converted one of their four rooms into a shrine. At the time, they didn't know anyone else who practiced. Recently, he says, "we hosted an initiation ceremony for 17 Chinese." A senior lama...