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...correct one. In fact, the piece may allude to an ancient Chinese legend about a tigress adopting a human baby. The early bronze workers certainly knew how to convey animal brutality when they wanted to, as illustrated in two small ornaments nearby that depict fierce tigers attacking defenseless deer. The museum also features an exceptional collection of tomb figures, or mingqi, especially from the Han dynasty (206 B.C. to 220 A.D.). The Han believed that humans have both a physical life (po) and a spiritual one (hun), and that at death the two go their separate ways. While the spirit...
...Scent pods from MALE MUSK DEER, prized as medicine to treat pain and swelling, can sell for up to five times the price of gold. At risk throughout Asia, deer populations are under severe pressure in Mongolia...
...correct one. In fact, the piece may allude to an ancient Chinese legend about a tigress adopting a human baby. The early bronze workers certainly knew how to convey animal brutality when they wanted to, as illustrated in two small ornaments nearby that depict fierce tigers attacking defenseless deer...
CONVICTED. CHAI SOUA VANG, 36, Hmong immigrant and National Guard veteran accused of fatally shooting six deer hunters and wounding two others, all but one of them unarmed, after they confronted Vang about trespassing; of first-degree murder; in Hayward, Wis. Vang, who shot four of the hunters in the back, said he acted in self-defense after one used a racial slur and another shot...
Still, amid the hassles and dangers, there are, for the faithful, moments of transcendent beauty. Second only to Bodh Gaya in importance on the pilgrimage circuit is Sarnath, where the Buddha went after his enlightenment to meditate in a deer park and preach for the first time. By daytime the deer park is unimpressive. As the sun sets, though, the brick ruins of the monasteries glow incandescently amid the lush green grass. Just beyond the park's walls, a peacock climbs the roof of a Burmese Buddhist monastery to watch the sunset. In the other corner, near a statue...