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...Exploring a porous frontier between documentary and fiction, Samsara starts out resembling leisurely reportage on a Buddhist temple in Laos, then introduces a young man (Amid Keomany) who visits an elderly...
...Phra Anil Sakya, one of Thailand’s most senior Buddhist monks, teaches mindfulness to business executives and to criminals....
...As Ulrica Nordström explains in From Forest to Garden: A Guide to the Hidden World of Moss, the species was venerated by Japanese poets and Zen Buddhist monks writing thousands of years ago....
...The hotel arranges a visit to Monk Somsack at Vat Muenna, the monastery of the royal stupa (Buddhist shrine)....
...There is a story I was told long ago about a Buddhist monk who loved to fish, which comes to my mind in moments like this. Bound by his faith to hurt no living thing, he cut the hooks from his flies....
...The actor Spalding Gray holds up various objects — an apple, a book, a toy car — and asks: “Do you remember this?” (She doesn’t.)...
...Monk Hye Woo, who acts as general manager, gives me a tour of the various buildings, pointing out the 1,400-year-old twin-lion statue....
...After his return home, he went to his Buddhist temple and asked the monk to repeat three names in prayer: Yotam, Alon and Samer. Additional reporting by Mehul Srivastava...
...In line with the hotel franchise’s Asian roots, it was blessed by Buddhist monks with wishes for prosperity. Feng shui principles guided design throughout the site....
...In “Immolation” (1972), a naked woman, her body painted green, sits quietly amid saffron billows, evoking the photo of a Buddhist monk who has set himself alight....
...The property has various equine facilities, including stables, fenced paddocks, a manège and a horse walker....
...Any monk still producing calligraphy after 1492 probably sensed he was working in an outdated medium. I write texts of more than 30 words, so I now feel the same....
...Buddhist abbot Roshi Joan Halifax, who founded the Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, thinks about this a lot — and is also sceptical of “mindfulness washing”....
...A reincarnated lama can be located on the basis of senior Buddhist clergy’s visions, or through other ritual practices....
...Some hold great hunks of meat and poultry; others are filled with smaller slices, cubes and kernels, the various shapes of root vegetables, tubers, terrines and dumplings....
...I remember our visits well: the pagoda golds glinting in the mizzle, the monks’ carmine robes, the prayer flags and the pine trees along the River Esk....
...“His Holiness, being a monk, is oath-bound to celibacy and you know his whole life he has been teaching that sensorial pleasures are very temporary.”...
...When she yearns for “becoming”, a Buddhist-esque vanishing into the natural world — becoming a raindrop, or a tree — it reads like sadness....
...That is to say, when we eliminate time and effort, we eliminate life’s pleasures,” writes the Zen Buddhist monk Shunmyō Masuno in the Japanese bestseller Zen: The Art of Simple Living....
...He smiled briefly when greeting a Buddhist monk from a temple he has visited in Queens, New York. The monk told the judge Ng was a “very good person” with a “very good heart”....
...A few came to define Vietnam: Malcolm Browne’s photograph of the self-immolation of Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc. Eddie Adams’ photograph of General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong suspect....
...Its 11 Buddhist statues are on display, as well as other ornaments and objects....
...The wide Sadler’s Wells stage is dominated by a vast wooden screen on wheels that acts as a surface for projections and shadow-play and can be tip-tilted through various angles to provide a climbing wall...
...Buddhist deities grant blessings assuring a good rebirth....
...who travelled from Tang-dynasty China to the Indian subcontinent in search of authentic Buddhist teachings....
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