Word: nirvana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exiled leader of Tibet's Buddhists. Some 1,500 pilgrims arrived in a caravan of black-and-yellow school buses at the town's 13-acre Deer Park Buddhist Center. The occasion: the spectacular Kalachakra, the wheel-of-time ceremony that all but guarantees participants nirvana. Never before performed in the West, the Kalachakra has been given only six other times by the present Dalai Lama. At the end of three days of praying, the Dalai Lama delivered a sermon on the never-ending-ness of time. Those who keep their vows are promised the attainment of Buddhahood...
...standard face of Philip Glass into an almost rococo swirl of repeated fingerprints impressed on the canvas from an ink pad: a literal parody, if ever there was one, of the "sense of touch" in traditional painting. But always he seems to be after a kind of minimalist nirvana where, as he puts it, "every square inch was physically the same, where there was no area of more beautiful brushing or virtuoso art marks...
...Buddhism is often dismissed as a weak religion. In reality it offers one of the few elements of cohesion in the ethnographic jigsaw that is Southeast Asia. On the plains, the Buddha's concepts of the "flood" (travail in the material world) and "further shore" (the search for nirvana) are apt metaphors for peasant lives constantly subjected to natural disasters. In mountain societies, which are often driven by a lust for Lebensraum, Buddhism's "middle way" tempers excesses...
...family there's going to be a little friction over something as the kids go through adolescence," says the youngest Reagan. "Nothing is nirvana. But the recent stories have been exaggerated. Being close-knit has become almost a physical impossibility, since we're so spread out. We haven't had big sit-downs over meat and potatoes. It hasn't been the Waltons or anything. But we're fairly close, emotionally. There is a bond...
Former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin has even likened the emigration to desertion from the army. Other critics contend that those going to the U.S. are motivated by the most crass materialism. One comment in the Jerusalem Post last week was typical: "They want to be lulled into nirvana by the hum of a six-cylinder auto engine, the whir of a food processor and the strains of an expensive stereo. They want to come home from work and be pampered, to make a lot of money and stop caring...