Word: lamaism
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Central to Arica's classroom work is a repertoire of exercises similar to the Audicon Plantar and loosely based on Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, Muslim Sufism and Tibetan Lamaism. Exercises called "Mentations" require the student to "concentrate your attention into each separate section" of the body for a prescribed time: 8 minutes 40 seconds for the colon and kidneys, 10 minutes 45 seconds for the liver, and so on. "Active in the World" calls for lying motionless, forearms supported on elbows, palms facing the feet, while feeling "the tissues of your body actively engaged in the dance of Life...
...Dalai Lama's peasant family came with him to Lhasa, and his father was made a noble, but he saw little of them. His days were spent with monkish tutors, in learning the Tantric texts of Lamaism and the complex religious ceremonials. At night he went to sleep in the enormous, fortresslike Potala, and could hear the palace gates close harshly and the ringing shouts of the watchmen as they marched through the long, twisting corridors. Without playmates or attending parents, the Dalai Lama matured early, and at 14 he visited Lhasa's great monasteries of Drepung...
Tibetan Buddhism, called Lamaism, is a variant of Mahayana, basing a large part of its practice on the revelatory Tantric texts. It absorbed much of the dark, animistic Bon Po religion of primitive Tibet and swarms with demons and fiercely copulating gods. The world is haunted by such specters as the ro-langs, or standing dead. They walk with their eyes closed, never change direction, and their touch is fatal to human beings. There are mountain demons who suck the life from unwary travelers, demons who cause hailstorms and earthquakes and eclipses. The Tibetan Buddhist contemplates an intricate pantheon, from...
...prostrated themselves. His presence was quite a coup: the Dalai Lama is a living God to his own people. Several years ago. uncertain of the Dalai Lama's loyalty, the Communists began to groom the exiled Panchen Lama as a rival. He is the spiritual leader of Lamaism, as the Dalai is the temporal head. Last week both the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama (who is a 16-year-old Chinese ) were delegates in Peking. Dutifully, the Dalai Lama proclaimed that "the Tibetan people enjoy full freedom of religion," and acknowledged Mao as "our great and beloved leader...
...Lamaism's most important "Living Buddha...