Word: dharma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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KINGSTON'S racy, invigorating style makes Tripmaster Monkey more than a retelling of The Dharma Bums with an Asian-American twist, more than yet another Less Than Zero tale of disillusionment. Her style is clever and humorous, not ponderous or heavy-handed. She meanders in and out of first-person narration, and dialogue eases its way between Wittman's thoughts and actions...
...Rinpoche was not a charlatan. By all accounts, he was brilliant, he was the real thing. The easiest conclusion to draw, looking from the outside in, is that he was an astute businessman. His devotees ran to the upper middle class, white, with impressive academic credentials. They dressed like Dharma bums in the beginning, but soon the teacher had them shaved, suited and cravated. If they did not exactly turn their pockets inside out for their teacher -- and some did -- they made good fund raisers. Moreover, he encouraged them to be all they could be, in their professions as well...
Ginsberg inscribed a quote from author Jack Kerouac and stamped an orange-ink copy of his Buddhiss name, "Loon of Dharma," Into the young man's book...
...been alone before." Thus it was in 1973, after divorcing her second husband, that Deirdre Blomfield-Brown decided to change her name and her life by beginning a novitiate in the 2,500-year-old tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Today Ane Pema Cho-dron, 47, whose name means "lotus dharma torch," is executive director of a meditation center in Boulder, Colo., and probably the only American woman to have been fully ordained as a Buddhist nun. The mother of two children and a former elementary school teacher in California and New Mexico, Chodron followed the path of enlightenment to Hong...