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Like a Buddhist monk who separates himself from any earthly matters to attain Nirvana, Shelomi has found genius in oblivion...
...world-renowned Buddhist scholar, Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh has become almost synonymous with the words reconciliation and healing. Exiled by both North and South in the 1960s, he focused his concepts of mindfulness and "engaged Buddhism" into retreats for American veterans struggling to build inner peace from the ravages of the Vietnam War. He's published more than 80 books, built monasteries in France and the U.S. and was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by Martin Luther King Jr., who said his anti-war stance was inspired by the Zen master's teachings...
...Jones herself, the rest of the band members were all male and all young. One guitarist was wearing a black and orange pin-striped suit with a bright teal tie, another was dressed like a 1950s gangster, and the third looked like an Urban Outfitters version of a Buddhist monk. Standing in the middle of this motley crew, surrounded by an exorbitant amount of various instruments, Jones looked like a little girl lost in a strange, musical land. She, however, was anything but a little girl to her group of boys, even joking at one point, “They?...
Lowell House became a campanological haven this week as Russian bell ringers, bell makers, and a monk arrived in a new stage of the Lowell Russian bells’ long journey home. The fate of the 17 historic bells, currently on a 77-year hiatus from Moscow’s Danilovsky Monastery, was finally decided in September when a Russian metals mogul offered to pay about $1 million to bring them home and to buy a new set for Lowell. Yesterday, plastic sheeting surrounded the belfry as the Russian experts recorded the bell tones and made moldings of the bells?...
Clad in traditional ochre robes, the group was comprised of thirteen singing monks and accompanied by one attendant monk who acted as a shrine master and a silent performer of offerings, serving the vice abbot of their own Gyuto Tantric University. The monks came to Harvard under the aegis of WorldMusic/CRASHarts, an organization for the advancement of international arts funded in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council...