Word: tai
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...eight years, followers fruitlessly scoured the sect's treasure house and monastery in Rumtek, India, for clues; pressure mounted on the four high lamas acting as interim regents. Finally, a regent named Tai Situ had a brainstorm. For 13 years, he had worn a prayer amulet given to him by the late leader, which he had never opened. Now, he says, "it suddenly struck me, the message could be here!" And lo, it was; and conveniently specific too: the child would be found "to the north in the east of a land of snow ((Tibet))/ A country where divine thunder...
...They're these guys who come down from the observatory to do Tai Chi in the Q-RAC during their lunch hours." says one Q-RAC frequenter. "They grunt and they spit and they're all bearded. It's just weird. You don't see that happening...
...Larry Wu-Tai Chin, charged in 1985 with spying for China...
Today, the Yang family style, known as T'ai Chi Chuan, is the most widely practiced Tai Chi form in the world...
While Martin Yan is a valuable member of Asian American society, he is yet another media image of the exotic Asian. Asking the Asian equivalent of Buckwheat to give an hour-long demonstration of Chinese cooking and Tai-Chi does nothing for campus race relations. In fact, it perpetuates the stereotypes the Foundation aims to eliminate...