Word: dharma
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...such example. Drawn to Buddhism by a Zen text, her parents were Zen Buddhist until she was four, when a Tibetan lama visited Rochester, N.Y. “They were so moved,” Howard says, that they became Tibetan Buddhist and helped set up the local dharma center, which they now run. Howard laughs as she recounts the long hours she spent at the dharma center as a child, saying “[my sister and I were] frustrated with what it was doing to the family...I got really tired [of it].” But childhood...
Novice monks spread freshly washed clothes out onto the cobblestone courtyard. Arthritic, bead-clutching Buddhist nuns shuffle around the Rumtek Dharma Chakra Centre, accumulating merit with every leisurely lap. If it weren't for the guards on the rooftop, toting antique Enfield rifles, the 273-year-old Rumtek Monastery would be a vision of calm...
Sacred Site (rumtek.org) In a Stupa: Wandering dumbly around a temple with no understanding of what you're looking at is incredibly boring. A quick visit to the official website of the Rumtek Dharma Chakra Centre, one of Sikkim's main religious destinations, will let you expound sagaciously about the turquoise and coral of the main stupa and explain the meaning of the butter-and-rice sculptures to your stupa-fied travel companions. A schedule of special ceremonies, such as the Mahakala mask dances and Tibetan New Year celebrations, will enable you to sound even more erudite...
...best writing occurs when Carmichael uses her literary license to explore the world she has created. The flat Dharma and Greg dichotomy is best executed in the paintball sequence, when the free spirit exclaims in frustration, “Just, for once in your life, be the type of person who can deactivate the hypermatrix flux equivocator...
...combination is inspired, in a Dharma & Greg laugh-track kind of way. Emily, a polite and perfumed sophomore member of the Bee from the Upper East Side of New York, meets Jordan, a Jersey native who lives in the Dudley Co-op and made headlines by being a member of the PSLM sit-in while still a first-year at the college. Still, Harvard is a small, small world. It turns out that the two have met once before, while dining with Manuela L. Zoninsein ’05, Emily’s roommate and Jordan’s FUPpie...