Word: durga
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ENVIRONMENT, June 16]. Allowing legal trade with even one country, Japan, for example, will inevitably lead to the poaching of these beautiful creatures and to their gradual disappearance. Why can't we let them be in the wild? I agree with the U.S. in opposing even limited ivory sales. DURGA DEVI RAMANAN Pittsford...
...When Durga Pokhrel was born in a small mountain village in Nepal, astrologers foretold that if she were born female, she would be as strong as a son. Appropriately named after the Hindu goddess of power, Durga went on to pursue a turbulent career as teacher, journalist and democratic and human rights activist in Nepal, during which her strength and constancy were severely tested. Contrary to the wishes of her conservative Hindu family, she became a scholar and university lecturer, but was blacklisted by the government for her political activities and eventually expelled from the university where she taught...
...trod the steppes and forests of Asia. On the banks of the Amur River in Russia, archaeologists discovered 6,000-year-old depictions of tigers carved by the Goldis people, who revered the tiger as an ancestor and as god of the wild regions. In Hindu mythology the goddess Durga rides the tiger. And Chang Tao-ling, a patriarch of the Chinese philosophy of Taoism, also mounts a big cat in his quest to fight evil and seek the essence of life. In the English-speaking world nearly every schoolchild who has ever studied poetry is familiar with William Blake...
...fairly racist basis of immigration until 1965," said Eck, referring to the quota on immigrants from Asia lifted by the Kennedy administration. In researching her project on America's newest religious communities, Eck plans to visit Buddhist groups in Los Angeles and the annual Durga Puja festival in New Jersey, which honors a Hindu god- dess...