Word: mandala
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...under the pillow, the other under the mattress, and instructed to remember their dreams so the Dalai Lama could interpret them during the ceremony. On the platform were two ever present reminders of tantric practice: a statue of Kay-Dor, a ferocious manifestation of the Buddha, and an elaborate mandala, a ritual design used in invocations, made out of ground precious stones and sand...
...Mandala Folk Dance Ensemble: July 14, 7 p.m. Kennedy School, 158 Spring St. Cambridge. Free...
...Mandala Folk Dance Ensemble: A lively, versatile 35-member troupe performs traditional dances from 9 countries. April 30 at 8 p.m. at the Peabody School Auditorium, 44 Linnean Street, Cambridge. Tickets...
...White might have received less critical veneration if he came from Wales or Idaho. Still, for 30 years he has quietly written long, uncompromising and cerebral novels. Voss (1957), a study of a German exploring the Australian interior frontier, shimmered with metaphysical mirages. With desert-dry irony, The Solid Mandala (1966) considered the lives of twin brothers, respectively a librarian and a simpleton, and praised feeling at the expense of intellect. Three years ago, in The Vivisector, he produced an ambitious account of an artist who coldly rejects life whenever it impinges upon his work. White himself is an intensely...
...record of that final, searching trip has just been published as The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton (New Directions; $12.50). Painstakingly edited by a team of scholarly admirers, but still tantalizingly unfinished, the journal is a collage of Asian images, sacred and profane. Merton talks at length of Buddhist mandalas, the mystical cosmograms that often represent the diversity and unity of the universe. And the book itself is a kind of mandala, drawing the reader deep into a philosophical analysis, then abruptly forcing him out into the physical world: Ceylonese girls bathing in country streams, Indians in Darjeeling with "English...