Word: monasticism
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After a decade of living and working in almost monastic seclusion in Yountville, he has had to devise a business model that allows him to oversee several restaurants spread out over 3,000 miles, while maintaining the exacting standards for which he is famous. That means more than doubling his...
For the most monastic undergraduates, it might have seemed that salvation had come last week in online form. Suddenly, thanks to the guerilla computing of one Kirkland House sophomore, students could log onto an open website and compare the facebook photos of almost all their peers, choosing the better-looking...
Two years ago, Yifa began organizing outreach retreat programs for college students—one is a weekend at Deer Park, a mountain owned by Fo Guang Shan in New York, and the other a month-long program in Taiwan during which students practice a humanistic Buddhist monastic life mixed...
J.M. Coetzee almost never gives interviews, so I counted myself very lucky when he granted me an audience in the early 1990s. We met in his office in Cape Town, the great novelist a pale and austere presence in his tweeds and corduroys, and I under strict instructions from his...
Bangkok has become a magnet for antiquities from all over Asia, where the knowledgeable shopper can find anything from genuine Burmese images of the Buddha to Tibetan monastic furniture. Of course, there are also plenty of cleverly forged fakes so, as in most Asian antiquities markets, caveat emptor. With opium...