Word: scrolls
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Last month, a crowd of 1,300 watched the 27th president of Harvard University hold up a Torah scroll during a service ushering in Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement...
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...ritual objects rescued from the ravages of China's Cultural Revolution, these works have found their way to the West from monasteries and homes of prosperous Tibetan families. The more than 700 items on display include religious sculptures, ritual objects, musical instruments and monastic utensils, as well as cloth scroll paintings, or thangkas, images of deities and saints. In the words of the Dalai Lama, who inaugurated the exhibition in May, to a Buddhist the sacred images are a "source of inspiration ... and enlightenment." Scroll paintings, for example, portray the Buddhist conception of the world and, to the initiated, reveal...
...This scroll...
...small group of otherwise ordinary citizens who perceive the world in extraordinary ways. Synesthesia is a kind of crossing of sensory signals in which the stimulation of one sense evokes another; purple may smell like kiwi; the aroma of mint may feel like glass; letters and digits might scroll by in Technicolor. This week a few dozen synesthetes and the psychologists who study them will gather at Princeton University for the first meeting of the American Synesthesia Association--a society devoted to furthering research into the phenomenon in the hopes that it will reveal something about the inner workings...