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Pakistan, Gandharan region
A Bodhisattva, 2nd/3rd Century
Gray schist
five things tagged “buddhism”
Monks and Bodhisattvas
From the Sui (581-618 CE) and Tang (618-907 CE) Dynasties.…
On Nothingness (Kinda)
An electron is a particular type of regularity that appears among measurements and observations that we make. It is more pattern than a substance. It is order… Thus we arrive at a strange place. We break things down into smaller and smaller pieces, but then the pieces, when examined, are not the…
Adventures of the Magic Monkey Along the Silk Roads (1983)
by Evelyn Nagai-Berthrong and Anker Odum
Rating: A+
A friend used to loan me this lovely book when I was 12 or 13. I loved reading and re-reading it to the point where I remember asking him if he could just gift it to me for my birthday (he declined). And then Life happened and I grew up and I forgot all about it until around 3 years ago, when I sud…
Levels of Jhana
When I was a kid, I’d close my eyes and allow the strange shapes caused by the night lamp and blood flow in my eyelids to put on a small dance and lull me to sleep. Many a time, as I’d relax and drift away, I would suddenly feel this ‘inflation’ and loss of personal boundary and sense of geometry.…