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Dates: during 1990-1999
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LUMBINI, NEPAL: Beneath the Maya Devi temple to Buddha's mother in this southwestern Nepal town lies a recently uncovered complex of rooms that may transform this remote hamlet into a sort of mecca for the world's 340 million Bhuddists. After carefully studying the chambers discovered 9 months ago, a multinational team of archaeologists has announced that the rooms prove that ancient inscriptions claiming the site is Buddha's birthplace are true. The inscriptions were found on a pillar at the ancient Maya Devi temple erected by Ashoka, an Indian king who converted to Buddhism and spread the religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bhudda Slept Here | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

...archive has done its best to make this event comprehensible by grouping related films together, inviting four authorities to lecture and giving the screenings a more or less chronological sequence. The retrospective opens tonight with an 8:30 screening of "Before Maya Deren: Restored Milestones of American Avant-Garde Cinema," a collection of films from the 1920s and 30s, and ends Monday with Stan Brakhage's 1995 "Hand-Painted Trilogy...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: From Bauhaus to MTV: Forging the History of Abstract Film | 12/7/1995 | See Source »

Renowned Russian ballerina Maya Plisetskaya returned from six years of self-exile to the Bolshoi Theater to celebrate her 70th birthday today. She resurrected her Swan Queen from Swan Lake, the role that first brought her international fame. Plisetskaya now lives in Germany where she continues to teach and perform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECONCILIATION AT SEVENTY | 11/28/1995 | See Source »

...spirited and celebratory rally in front of the Capitol to condemn racism, declare their own personal sense of purpose and responsibility, and pledge to their families and communities their best efforts to build a more equitable and violence-free society. Among those who spoke at the rally: poet Maya Angelou and civil rights activists Jesse Jackson, Joseph Lowery and Rosa Parks. Delivering a two-hour, meandering address laced with fiery denunciations of white racism and the white establishment, Farrakhan urged black men to renew their moral and spiritual dimension and take charge of their own destiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: OCTOBER 15-21 | 10/30/1995 | See Source »

...march presented a vision of hope. Speakers such as Dr. Benjamin Chavis, Maya Angelou and Rev. Jesse Jackson inspired the jubilant crowd. And yes, even Minister Louis Farrakhan, though long-winded, preached a message that emphasized courage and faith. He was unflinching in his rebuke of white supremacy as well as black wrongs. All Americans should have listened to him. His speech was not a hateful rant nor the message of a bigot...

Author: By David W. Brown, | Title: Marching Towards Hope | 10/18/1995 | See Source »

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