Word: buddhists
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...that when he started construction on the lush, waterfall-laden, 140-ft. man-made mountain in front of his new hotel, the rumor in town was that he was building a ski resort on the Strip. But Wynn Las Vegas, which opened last week, exudes an anti-Vegas, almost Buddhist quietude. There's no theme, no showstopper like the volcano he built outside the Mirage in 1989, the pirate ships he put outside Treasure Island in 1993 or the giant pond he created with fountains choreographed to songs for the front of the Bellagio in 1998. "Theme parks...
...have offered to supply buttons spanning two centuries. "This gives us samples from many different periods of time," says Poths, "and all manufactured in one place." Some efforts, however, have been disappointing. The researchers had high hopes for a collection of ancient cremation vessels from a Buddhist mission in Hawaii, only to find that the lids were loose. Sighs Ogard: "Most things that can be opened have been...
...sound was deep, resonant and clear. For the unveiling of My Sydney at the Museum of Contemporary Art in March last year, Chinese performance artist Zhang Huan oversaw the ritualized shearing of a sheep, whose wool he later walked over, before a Buddhist temple bell was struck by a life-size bronze cast of the artist's naked body. For whom the bell tolls ? These days in the world of contemporary art, it seems to be tolling for China - from established art stars like Zhang and gunpowder virtuoso Cai Guo-Qiang to the new generation of artists, spawned...
...Buddhist graveyard at Kuba, Kawamoto walks among the block-shaped tombstones and looks down from the steep hill at Hiroshima Bay, where he swam as a child. This was the graveyard where he and the other boys used to test their courage: "In the daytime we would come up here and leave some personal belonging. In the night we would retrieve it, which would prove to the others that we were here...
Reading the names on the Buddhist tombstones, Kawamoto points out those of the families he knew. He keeps a plot of ground here for his own family. Living in Ono again, he is close to both the villages of his youth, though Kuba, like Ono, has grown considerably. The hill of the graveyard had to be cut away at the base to make way for a new high school. Growth is natural, Kawamoto says, but he regrets modern disconnections from the past. "Now the future is everything." Still, he believes that the world is in many ways better off than...