Word: sutras
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...Kama Sutra: Sexual Positions for Him and for Her,” by Anne Hooper
...Shiao Lin, he put his palms together in prayer while a monk next to him recited a Buddhist sutra...
...decided to come out and to work against discrimination. "There was a choice to make," he says, "whether you feel threatened and live your life with misery, or you live with courage." In 2001, Pant and a few friends organized the Blue Diamond Society - named after the Diamond Sutra, a well-known translation of Buddhist teachings emphasizing compassion - to distribute information about HIV. The group later began documenting human-rights abuses against gay people, and its members sued to overturn Nepal's law criminalizing homosexuality. In December 2007, Nepal's Supreme Court ruled in their favor. Four months later, Pant...
...book, which has been dubbed the "Catholic Kama Sutra," has the backing of the Catholic Church in Poland and the national media - even the ultraconservative Catholic daily Nasz Dziennik gave it a positive review. Bookstores around the country sold out of the first 5,000 copies within weeks. The St. Pawel publishing house has already ordered a reprint and is considering translations into English, Italian and Slovak. (See TIME's top 10 books...
...AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories From India By Salman Rushdie, Siddhartha Deb, Kiran Desai, Nikita Lawani, Vikram Seth, et. al. Anchor Books...