Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...called "Zen Blush"; a new sitcom, Dharma and Greg. A designer fruit-juice container entreats, "Please recycle this bottle. It deserves to be reincarnated too." A Buddhist temple is where Al Gore came into some dubious campaign money, and monks star in computer commercials. Type buddhism into the search engine of amazon.com the Internet bookstore, and it spits back 1,200 titles, from scriptures to modern inspirational writings to a robust selection of cookbooks. And then there is Hollywood, where more and more people seem torn between a sincere desire to conquer ego and the drive to be seen doing...
...baroque exuberance [of] priestcraft, rituals, mantras, magic, monasteries, mystics and hermits." Another singularity was the succession process for a ranking monk: upon his death, associates used dreams and portents to locate the child deemed his next incarnation, whom they then groomed to "resume" his "old" duties. The search took on political ramifications in Tibet, where the Dalai Lama, the head of the largest Vajrayana lineage, was also head of state...
...groups of Buddhists had converged with two more groups of seekers. Helen Tworkov, editor of the influential Buddhist quarterly Tricycle, says a generation explored Buddhism "out of an enormous sense of shame" over the Vietnam War and its images of monks setting themselves afire in protest. Others were in search of enlightenment that lasted longer than a tab of acid. Their quests seemed to end in Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a brilliant apostle of Vajrayana and part of the Tibetan diaspora. Trungpa's Naropa Institute in Denver, an eclectic colloquium of Eastern spiritual and Western intellectual cultures, constituted...
...never happen," says trooper Mitch Tuttle as he cruises Interstate 15 in search of speeders. His radar locks onto an Olds coming the other way at 102 m.p.h. Tuttle crosses the median, turns south and shifts into warp. He's at 100, 110, 120, 130, 135. Now he's got him. Mike McCready, a 21-year-old Canadian student on his way to a reunion of Mormon missionaries, steps...
...clad urban priest. Until now, Cain has written the show under the pseudonym PAUL LELAND, but a campaign against the show mounted by conservative Catholics prompted the priest to come forward. Cain argues that the show's critics don't recognize that Nothing Sacred is about one priest's search for God. He claims that the attacks, branding the show's two Jewish executive producers "Godless," are anti-Semitic. As of last week, about eight sponsors had begged off. For now, ABC and Disney are standing behind the show, but if the ratings don't improve, last rites may have...