Word: nirvanas
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...named after a geographic region. Next time, though, turn the corner past the Middle East and visit its gritty next-door cousin: t.t. the Bear’s Place. t.t.’s has as much street cred as any place in Boston—according to legend, Nirvana played there for a crowd of 14—and you’re less likely to run into that obnoxious future i-banker from your Justice section. At t.t.’s you can party with the pierced and enjoy some of the best acts on the small...
...unemployment is rampant. Yet the town is seeing a real estate boom, roads are markedly better than anywhere around and children go to well-maintained schools. Kushinagar is where the Buddha died, and pilgrims come to see the gilded statue that commemorates the spot where the Buddha attained nirvana as well as a brick monument built in the field where he was cremated. "The only improvement we have seen here is because of the monasteries and the Buddhists," says Laldhar Yadav, who owns a cloth shop...
...sweated more than we do but also because they fretted less. Technology helps us get more done in the least possible time, but today's lifestyles mean frazzled nerves for most of us. Unless we work simultaneously toward greater peace of mind, physical fitness alone will be an empty Nirvana. The ancient dictum of a "sound mind in a sound body" has never been more relevant. M. Venkata Krishnan Madras, India...
...sweated more than we do but also because they fretted less. Technology helps us get more done in the least possible time, but today's lifestyles mean frazzled nerves for most of us. Unless we work simultaneously toward greater peace of mind, physical fitness alone will be an empty Nirvana. The ancient dictum of a "sound mind in a sound body" has never been more relevant. M. Venkata Krishnan Madras, India How about ballroom dancing for exercise? It's joy, not work. Swing, salsa, tango for blood pressure, heart, balance and alertness. All that while you hear great music...
...have stolen hundreds of artifacts, an allegation that temple manager Kallicharan Yadav dismisses as "baseless." What is undeniable is that Hindu priests have turned parts of the Buddhist holy site into shrines to their own gods. A day's drive away, Nalanda University, the wellspring from which ideas of Nirvana and reincarnation washed across the world from the 5th to 12th centuries, is nowadays a forgotten pile of bricks and weeds. Faced with this overwhelming array of neglected treasures, Thakur concedes: "Sometimes it's all so depressing, I don't even want to think about...