Billionaire and MicrosoftmogulBill Gates and his ex-wife, Melinda, established the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support global development and global health programs. The organization works globally and in the United States to research and combat disease and to fight poverty. According to the ...
(794-1192), including the sick, the poor, the imperial family, and nobility. Emperor Shirakawa 白河天皇 (1053 – 1129, Japan's 72nd emperor) made 23 pilgrimages to the site. Today the pilgrimage is still one of Japan’s most popular spiritual routes. Kumano is also reportedly the home ...
Bill Gates says it’s“funny as hell”, and that’s all the advertising it needs. Taking the unconventional form of meme-worthy comic strips accompanied by texts to provide context, Brosh’s memoir is a candid reflection on both hilarious and bleak moments she's been through. ...
Generally, ghazals deal with themes of love, both romantic and spiritual, and explore the pain of loss and separation from these kinds of love. Take a look at this excerpt from “Even the Rain,” a ghazal by Agha Shahid Ali: What will suffice for a true-love knot? Even the rain? But...
or a god in one of the pleasurable heaven realms. All of these births partake of the impermanence that characterizessamsara. Thus, heaven, in the sense of a celestial realm, is not the goal of spiritual practice. Yet Buddhist tradition speaks of celestial beings of limitless wisdom and compas...