Word: buddhists
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...many prominent pieces that have never been publicly exhibited, including rare crucifixes, snuff bottles, screens, ornaments, paintings and antiques from as far afield as East Timor, Japan, Goa, Korea and Macau (the latter meriting a section of its own). There is also a special exhibition devoted to Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist and Shinto religious objects. But art experts and historians are most excited about the reappearance of a well-known collection that has not been shown publicly for many years...
...Western consumers began exhibiting unprecedented curiosity about Chinese belief systems and culture, but also at a time when multinational brands needed a sinicized graphic language in order to address hundreds of millions of Chinese shoppers. A postmodern Chinese style subsequently entered the global marketplace, appropriating elements of brushstroke calligraphy, Buddhist iconography, imperial and folk art, Shanghai Art Deco imagery, China Coast painting and the political art of the Cultural Revolution, while applying Western typographical ideas to Chinese characters...
...into trouble. After a democratic uprising in 1988 was brutally suppressed by the junta, Maung Thura spent several years in and out of jail. He has been harassed by the junta several times since then, most recently last September when he was arrested for daring to bring food to Buddhist monks who led another doomed pro-democracy push...
...accounts, they have arrived late to the crisis. The U.N.'s World Food Program (WFP) calls this emergency a "silent tsunami" that could have dire consequences for more than 100 million of the world's poor in countries as varied as Somalia and North Korea. A South Korean Buddhist organization recently quoted a North Korean official's chilling view of the mounting hunger there: "Life is more than difficult. It seems like everyone is going...
Surprisingly, what would normally be considered a harrowing brush with death proved a transporting spiritual awakening. As a result of her stroke, Taylor found herself in a transcendental state, stripped of the burdens of normal consciousness. Freed from the need to worry or analyze, she attained something resembling the Buddhist and Hindu conception of Nirvana: a complete denial of self through the cessation of desire. After a long period of recovery, she now claims to be able to escape the demands of her left lobe at will. Living in a brightly colored house in Indiana, she serves as a prophet...