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Quickly, Steve and Larry explained the basics of several meditation traditions, among them the Southern Buddhist tradition, which focuses on breathing patterns. Their own method, they said, is a hybrid of several traditions. But, they said, the goal of any sort of meditation is to lose yourself, to become so detached from your everyday existence that your thoughts simply drift through your head without your becoming preoccupied by them. Eventually, they explained, you stop "thinking" all together...
...want to begin similar work on other monuments. The most ambitious project would be the restoration by Polish specialists of the Bayon, the last great temple built before the collapse of the Khmer civilization. Most of the temples at Angkor are Hindu, but the Bayon was built as a Buddhist shrine. While Angkor Wat soars, the Bayon suffocates. It is crowded with 54 sandstone towers, each with four carved visages of a complacently smiling future Buddha, or bodhisattva. The faces are probably likenesses of the temple's builder, King Jayavarman VII. The King, whose vigorous rule turned...
Cross-Cultural Buddhist Perspectives onNature--by Masatoshi Nagatomi, professor.Coolidge Hall, Room...
...United States is a religiously plural nation, and this is a plural university. Our community is home to a rich variety of religious traditions--among them, Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu--along with various degrees of religious skepticism; and on certain questions of sexual morality, views differ sharply within and among those who are not religious. While we cannot, as a result, expect consensus on all these questions, it is part of the distinctive role of the university in our culture to represent a space within which a divergence of reasonable opinion on such on such matters is combined...
After many unconventional adventures--such as riding to Hong Kong in a train full of pigs and trading Sun's talents as a dwarf tosser for passage to America--the two adventures finally steal the sutra from a Buddhist library in the United States and return to China...