Word: journeyer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...exhibition is designed to take viewers on a virtual journey along the Silk Road. It begins in the ancient Sogdian capital of Samarkand in present-day Uzbekistan?one of the last of Alexander the Great's conquests before he went south to India?and moves east through the now vanished western kingdoms of Khotan, Kroraina and Miran before ending in China. Over the course of this journey eastward, remarkably well preserved 1,000-year-old manuscripts and icons reveal the growth and evolution of the Silk Road's most illustrious commodity: Buddhism. The merging and morphing of regional beliefs produced...
...Chinese city of Gaochang in Xinjiang province, shows one of the earliest known Chinese depictions of hell and is the exhibit's best example of the evolution of Buddhism along the Silk Road. Composed in the 10th century by a Chinese monk, the sutra illustrates the purgatorial journey of the soul from death to rebirth in one of seven orders of being, ranging from the highest, bodhisattvas (those who have attained enlightenment), to hungry ghosts or, still worse, those who have been banished to hell. The sutra was one of the first attempts to syncretize the Indian Buddhist philosophy...
...we’re stepping into the next step of our journey, it’s useful to have these type of lessons taught to us,” said Rodriguez, who will be working at Citigroup...
...This journey across the pond is just another chapter for the two-time Ivy Player of the Year, who has excelled both on and off the court...
Filmmaker and visiting lecturer Ross McElwee has completed the new film Bright Leaves, which, lauded by critics from The New York Times to Time magazine, is due for national distribution in the fall. The film tells the social, economic and psychological tale of a journey across the tobacco terrain of North Carolina by a native Carolinian whose great-grandfather created a famous brand of tobacco. It describes the appeal of cigarettes and their legacy in North Carolina...