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...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-after seven rebirths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Record: Jul. 27, 1981 | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

Lord Canning was once asked by a preacher how he enjoyed his sermon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: What the New Grads Are Hearing | 6/15/1981 | See Source »

...William Sloane Coffin opened the conference--organized by the Boston/Cambridge Ministry in Higher Education--with a sermon on disarmament at St. Paul's Church Friday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cardenal Addresses Peace Conference | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

...post-assassination sermon, an earnest lamentation about the "sickness of American society," has become a notably fatuous genre that blames everyone and then, after 15 minutes of earnestly empty regret, absolves everyone. It is true that there is a good deal of evil in the American air; television and the sheer repetitiousness of violence have made a lot of the country morally weary and dull and difficult to shock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: It's Time to Ban Handguns | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

Those Drinking Days is a passionate blend: part autobiography, part confessional, part sketches of famous alcoholic writers and part sermon on the dangers of "Drunkspeare ... its bird song and purling ravishment, bliss of self-love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Drunkspeare | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

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