Word: nirvanas
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...evening he reads from recent verses describing himself as a failure. In one he confesses: "My tirades destroyed no intellectual unions of the KGB and CIA . . . I have not yet stopped the armies of entire mankind on the way to World War III . . . I never got to heaven, nirvana, x, whatchamacallit. I never learned...
...season finally ends. It always takes several weeks to bury the Redskins; every game is rehashed, and every possible theory that can be advanced for either their success or failure is put forth, and no player is left uninterviewed. For a diehard Burgundy and Gold fan, it was nirvana...
...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...