by Mat Collishaw of images of pole dancers, frenzied burning butterflies and the great ravines that were left when the Taliban destroyed the Bamiyan Buddhas. Fusing symbols of decadence and decay, Collishaw makes lithophanes -- in this case, images etched in thin, translucent Corian, lit from behind with

're in Bangkok, just ask anybody where Wat Po is, and they may be able to tell you. It's kind of hard to miss sprawling temples with massive golden Buddhas, right? The massage you receive there has a reputation of being "Intense," but in a good way, of course. And it won't be In a darkened private room

inauguration speech. However, | don’ t exempt unbelievers from criticism. | ridicule officially atheist China’ s leaders for banning Tibet’ s living Buddhas from reincarnation without permission. According to the order, issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, “The so-called reincarnated

an and told the king that in a previous lifetime, the man had donated food to a paccekabuddha. Arahants, paccekabuddhas and fully-enlightened Buddhas are so pure of mind that anybody giving a donation to any such will accrue a lot of merit On this particular occasion he had instructed his wife t

fering, is indeed one strength of the Enlightened Ones. The realization of the Noble Truth of Suffering has been achieved independently by all the Buddhas and paccekahuddhas. As for the arahants and various enlightened disciples of the Buddha — it has only been as the result of the teaching of the Bu