Word: buddhists
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...misconception is that it doesn’t exist,” she says. “It’s like when people ask you where you go to school—it just takes too much explanation.”Born in Minnesota and the daughter of Buddhist converts, Howard says that her academic interest originated from a desire to read ancient Buddhist texts in its original Sanskrit. At Harvard, she learned Tibetan instead and now works in India translating Tibetan to English. In Chicago, Sara M. Berliner ’98 began her college career at Harvard...
...cast singing with bad ’80s hair, the plot darts around to introduce us to six men and the women in their lives. Then we watch as they all drive by Long Island landmarks to a beach house owned by Spooner (Chris Bowers), the hot Buddhist astrophysicist of the bunch. “Sing Now” is most engaging when it develops the friends’ personal stories. There’s the maybe-gay starving actor, the high-strung boring one with the loudmouth wife (played by the irritating Molly Shannon of “Saturday...
...couple stared blankly through most of the four religious statements, but cried when the Buddhist extolled the incomparable preciousness of the individual human life and when the head of the local Hillel center read Ecclesiastes - "to everything there is a season..." It was heart-rending to watch...
...While raucous nightlife isn't Tainan's big lure, you'll see religion practiced on a scale that easily outpaces the capital. More than 200 temples-Taoist, Buddhist, Confucian-are tucked into lanes and alleys amid the high-rises, each offering its own brand of salvation. Pray for fair judgment in the afterlife at the City God Temple, where two giant abacuses tally good deeds versus bad, or plead for high exam scores at the Confucius Temple, the island's oldest. Festivals celebrating temple gods' birthdays are several-day affairs here, their likenesses paraded through the streets on palanquins, urged...
...Even the normally peaceful agitate for war. A hard-line Sinhalese nationalist party of Buddhist monks is now part of the ruling coalition. Late last year some of the party's nine M.P.s scuffled with antiwar protesters-mostly Sinhalese but some Tamils-at a rally in Colombo. "Clearly when groups fight, the first attempt should be to solve it through talks," says the Venerable Athuraliye Rathana, who heads the Buddhist group. "But we cannot tolerate [the Tigers'] terrorist activities. We have to destroy [them], and then we can talk." It's the mantra of a nation: kill or be killed...