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...later years, Korea had already witnessed much war with its Chinese neighbors to the north . This history of conflict had an unfortunate and devastating effect on the preservation of important national treasures—including many secrets of the legendary Korean celadon pottery, and roughly 80 percent of the Buddhist paintings produced during the Golden Age of Korea . As such, because of its unique institutional affiliation, the Early Korea Project is the academic community’s best bet for re-discovering the lost portions of Korean history on a comprehensive level. In addition, the Early Korea Project will provide...
...enlightened discussions on Breakfast at Tiffany’s (“The movie, not the novella”), guidelines for coming out of the closet as a public figure (“Are you British? Are you knighted?”), and a monologue comparing the transience of Buddhist sand mandalas to Hollywood executives ordering salads and later excreting the contents.Orsini and Serrell oscillate between the tender and the wooden. Moments in which the two examine their hang-ups over their sexual orientation, which extend far beyond simple denial, find the two at their best, filled with passion tempered...
...white ocean in which peaks like Kanchenjunga and Lhotse appeared like frozen waves. He pulled out his camera and snapped Tenzing holding aloft his ice ax, strung with the flags of Britain, India, Nepal and the United Nations. Tenzing dug a hollow in the snow and filled it with Buddhist offerings: a few sweets, a chocolate bar and some cookies. Hillary dug a second hole and buried a crucifix. The two nibbled on some mint cake and, aware that their oxygen supplies were limited, began their descent 15 min. after reaching their goal...
...provided a vector for Buddhism to come from the east, while Hellenistic and even Egyptian influences flowed the other way. Alexander the Great's eastward conquest essentially ended there in the 4th century B.C., and Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang passed through in the 7th century A.D. on his quest for Buddhist texts. "Amsterdam, Berlin and London today are the Afghanistan of 2,000 years ago," says Khalid Siddiqi, a former Afghan refugee who is on the advisory committee for the exhibit. "It was a crucible of different cultures that came together and melded, showing the enrichment - not impoverishment - of different cultures...
...Burmese Buddhist monks demonstrated on a global scale their humble, peaceful protests for a set of inalienable, basic human rights that no government can revoke or suppress. As information technology created the opportunity for faster, more expansive content distribution, the actions of the monks spurred inspiration and support worldwide within days of their march...