Word: sutras
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...sacred Buddhist sutras constitute a large portion of the exhibit’s works. Many of the sutra chapters include illustrations that accompany the calligraphic text. Beautifully detailed woodblock prints, both inked and touched up with gold pigment, make up the magnificent pages of the sutras. The copying of such texts was vital to the transmission of Buddhist beliefs and practices. Furthermore, it was considered a meritorious act that brought good fortune to both the patron who commissioned the work and the artist himself...
...concepts even for the uninitiated. His facility with self-deprecating humor and deliberately mundane metaphors makes him a mesmerizing teacher. At a packed lecture in Hong Kong's Convention and Exhibition Center last summer, he told his audience that they could go to sleep if they wanted because the sutra he was about to teach was "very, very long and rather boring"; he then held them rapt for more than three hours. Film, Khyentse Norbu argues, is an ideal vehicle for transmitting Buddhist wisdom with freshness in the 21st century: "(For a long time) Buddhism has the tradition of using...
ROCK-SOLID SUTRA Nobody knows why the ruling 10th century Chandela clan picked this desolate spot on a heat-seared plain 300 kilometers southwest of Varanasi as the site for its prodigious spree of temple building?nearly 100 in as many years. But it's a good thing the Moguls, who were lopping off the heads of idolatrous sculptures in their rampage across northern India, never found them. They would have been apoplectic with rage at the temples' stone figures communing in sexual positions that would make a Pattaya prostitute blush...
...archaeologists understand the significance of this Kama Sutra in stone, but Anoop Jain, a temple guide, has his own theory. "People were becoming too holy," he explains as he directs a beam of sunlight with a heart-shaped hand mirror toward a pair of stone lovers engaged in a passionate kiss. "They were going to the forest to meditate, and no one was getting married." So the King, suggests Jain, commissioned the carving of erotic scenes into temple walls for "inspiration." It will never be known if the King's pro-family program proved fruitful. Though mighty warriors, the Chandelas...
...move put Nair a bit out of the loop. She followed up with cable-TV films and some lukewarmly received features, including Kama Sutra, an over-the-top costume (and often costume-less) drama. Monsoon, with five plot lines and (by Nair's count) 68 characters, feels like her first real epic, but it started small. It cost only about $2 million and the shoot took 30 days, with up to four scenes a day filmed on handheld cameras. Although it's been a smash with critics, Monsoon Wedding isn't up for a foreign-film Oscar this year - India...