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Word: sutra (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vaux: When I first started college there was a book called "Hammer of the Gods." ...I also was profoundly impressed by the Kama Sutra, which has many useful insights into the workings of relationships and social structures. Everyone should read...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Professor Fun Facts | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...Take a trendier path toward spiritual renovation. Stretch your body like silly putty and learn some interesting new positions that even Cosmo Kama Sutra would be proud of at Yoga Class (Malkin Athletic Center; Monday, Wednesday and Friday 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. and Tuesday and Thursday 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.; $5). As a mental practice as well as a physical one, yoga will relax you as it is centered on strength and flexibility training...

Author: By FM Staff, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Spiritual | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

...people made of thoughts, eagles born from copulating trees and spontaneously appearing mountains all have the opportunity to be exploited for their "exoticism" and "Orientalism." The sexually explicit exploits of the Hindu pantheon are particularly vulnerable to such a reading--India is the culture that brought us the Kama Sutra, after...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Indian Campfire Tales | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

...logic seems as tortured as a position from the Kama Sutra, but Clinton's potential argument (which was tested last week on TIME reporters by a high-level presidential confidant) comes down to two basic presidential passions, one still alleged, the other long proved. The alleged passion is for fellatio. According to a lawyer who has heard them, the Lewinsky tapes show that when it comes to intimacy, the infamously reckless Clinton is a play-it-safe puritan. Facetiously referring to herself as the future "special assistant to the President for b___ j___," Lewinsky reportedly told Linda Tripp that Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: When Sex Is Not Really Having Sex | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...What is the sound of one hand clapping?" The late-blooming Soka Gakkai practice, favored by Tina Turner, is also nominally a Japanese Mahayana offshoot, although rather atypical in its teaching that the repetition of a four-word phrase, translatable as "Devotion to the mystic law of the Lotus Sutra [scripture]," can gain adherents happiness and material amenities in this world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUDDHISM IN AMERICA | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

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