The term “Tathagata” is a title often used to refer to a Buddha, particularly Shakyamuni Buddha, in Buddhist texts. It’s a profound word meaning “one who has thus come” or “one who has thus gone,” emphasizing someone who has attained enlightenment and transcended the cycle of birth...
Written byIan Thomas Malone, Posted inBlog,Movie Reviews Rituals either have meaning, or they don’t. The process of selecting a new pope feels fairly ridiculous, following certain rules and traditions that have been in place for more than a thousand years. Many of those customs, such as th...
abuse). There is speculation that the word has onomatopoeic origins in a ‘natural sound of disgust’ as ‘baf’ or ‘bah’. (There is German ‘baff machen’ (to flabbergast).) Further influences on the meaning come from sailors (where else!); ‘baffling’ as the...
Produced by Jeffrey Kraus-yao. The Man Who Would be King By Rudyard Kipling Published by Brentanos at 31 Union Square New York THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy. The Law, as quoted, lay
revealing the scientific, military and commercial uses, as well as the memorial and social functions of photography, and by presenting a wide range of objects and techniques, the exhibition invites us to re-examine today the meaning of the photographic gesture in these different non-European ...
If the SwiftVets are spinning their own yarns out of whole cloth in order to do destroy the man's reputation, then by all means, prove it in court and make them pay. But that's not what the Kerry campaign has done. They've blustered and threatened. They've tossed mud at the wall...
frees them from their shackles and stands before them with folded hands. For an instant Vasudeva and Devaki know that Krishna is God and that in order to destroy demons he has come on earth. They are about to worship him when Krishna dispels this knowledge and they look on him and Balara...
Have you ever stuck on the word chilman in a song or Ghazal? If yes, here is the meaning. Chilman is a screen, mostly a curtain, that is 'Parda' in Hindi, or sometimes a hanging screen made of bamboo or some type of plants. ...
mandatory boil water order issued by the department of health yet the restaurant didn’t miss a beat. It takes a well oiled restaurant to run “business as usual” when the unexpected happens. It was also reassuring to know that the commercial dish machine in the place was properly working!
Growing up in Vancouver, I attended an Islamic school every Saturday. There, I learned that Jews cannot be trusted because they worship “moolah, not Allah,†meaning money, not God. According to my teacher, every last Jew is consumed with business. ...