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...spoilers, whining about being frozen out of the talks, lambasting the LTTE for every violation of the truce, and claiming that life is getting harder under Wickremesinghe. On a recent trip to the ancient capital of Anuradhapura, Wickremesinghe woke at dawn to visit the holy Bo tree, a Buddhist pilgrimage destination. When the Prime Minister's convoy neared the ruins, the walkie-talkies started chattering with a surprise: Kumaratunga was already at the site. The convoy detoured and the Prime Minister wandered around the back of the ruins for half an hour. Finally he aborted the trip and went back...
...seamlessly into the snow. "Those were mine," says Jampur. "They died last winter. There was no meat on the bones, so we just took the skins and left the rest." Inside, his ger is warm and smells like a wet horse. There's a shrine with carved animals and Buddhist prayer maps, and a lightbulb and television are wired to a car battery. For weather reports, he relies on a 30-year-old Russian-made radio...
...sacred Buddhist sutras constitute a large portion of the exhibit’s works. Many of the sutra chapters include illustrations that accompany the calligraphic text. Beautifully detailed woodblock prints, both inked and touched up with gold pigment, make up the magnificent pages of the sutras. The copying of such texts was vital to the transmission of Buddhist beliefs and practices. Furthermore, it was considered a meritorious act that brought good fortune to both the patron who commissioned the work and the artist himself...
...from the 10th through 18th centuries. The three rooms chart Buddhism’s progress chronologically, with each room presenting a wide variety of objects – scroll paintings, wooden and bronze statuary, ceramics, ritual objects and figurines. “I hope visitors see the evolution of Buddhist iconographic types and regional and national styles,” said Mowry...
...Buddhist Art: The Later Tradition” effectively demonstrates that Buddhist iconographic conventions remained essentially the same from one country to the next over several centuries. Said Mowry, “I wanted to make sure the objects worked well together both intellectually and visually.” And, indeed, the exhibit’s visual variety and geographical diversity provides both aesthetic pleasure and insight into the history of Buddhism...