Word: buddhists
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Nava Mekong launched this year and sails twice daily, journeying two hours upstream between high hills forested with teak trees, and past fishermen casting their nets from tiny craft. Among the destinations are the Pak Ou caves, where a brace of limestone grottoes houses thousands of Buddhist statues and images. (See TIME's Global Adviser for exotic, beautiful and interesting getaways...
...Millions of viewers regularly watch his satellite television channel ASTV, which openly advocates for the PAD and could provide the new party with a potentially huge voter base. "We asked our people and the masses want us to do this," said PAD spokesman Panthep Pourpongpan. (Watch TIME's video "Buddhist Monks in War and Protest...
...Gore was able to get most people to forget the money he took from the tobacco industry and Buddhist monks by winning both the Nobel Prize and an Oscar for his work on educating the world about the dangers of global warming and other problems that affect the environment...
...Buddhist, she told an interviewer she rises each day at 4:30 a.m. for meditation and reads voraciously. Neighbors said she once played Mozart on the family piano, but the music stopped early in her detention...
...artist, revered both for his feisty personality (he admits to occasionally having an "abusive tongue") and provocative contemporary Buddhist art, still wakes at 2 a.m. to meditate and then scrutinize the stucco motifs by flashlight. He writes in his book Creating Buddhist Art for the Land, "I love and am attached to my project like all parents who want to see the success of their children. That's why I suffer every time when things don't come out as I've expected. This is the dharma principle that I hold to be my mentor these days. As I build...