Word: sanskrit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...introduced her to her own personal entity, Salem. Greatly impressed, she talked her husband into buying 42 acres of land just across a lake from a nine-acre ranch used by Barham and his wife Martha. Kübler-Ross called her property Shanti-Nilaya ("Home of Peace" in Sanskrit) and made it a center for workshops on death and dying. One result, says a defector from the center, is that "she is so emotionally dependent on the Barhams that...
Dalai comes from the Mongolian word for ocean, to signify broad knowledge. A lama is a spiritual teacher, akin to the Sanskrit guru. In Tibet, though, the Dalai Lama was head of state and revered not merely as a holy man but as the incarnate Lord of Compassion. His person is crucial to the fate of his landlocked Himalayan homeland, and thus to relations with China and the Soviet Union. He has lived in exile in Dharmsala, India, since 1959, when he fled after Chinese troops crushed a rebellion by Tibetans. His country, he told TIME Correspondent Marcia Gauger...
...devotees fly to the altar clutching their instruments, the congregation swelling behind them. A devotee with a mrdrunga or drum, sets a slow simple tempo and begins to chant in Sanskrit. The congregation answers the leader's prelude and sways with the slow tempo. The devotees dance closest to the altar, beating mrdrungas or kartals, small high-pitched cymbals, and leading the rest of the congregation in the singing and dancing...
Once again they press their foreheads to the floor. They answer the Sanskrit words of a devotee, confirming their love of Krishna. Another devotee salves the altar with a wet cloth...
...earth. Krishna is supposed to have taken the bodily form during the first century A.D. in the village of Braj in North India. He is portrayed as a mischievous lad in The Round Dance of Krishna, a poem by Nanddas written in the 16th century and based on Sanskrit texts. Krishna is chased along the banks of the Jumnu River by 160 women and with an affected reluctance allows them to catch him. While declaring the strength of love, he multiplies himself and makes love to the 160 women simultaneously...