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4 days ago · Sam Riviere is the author of the poetry collections 81 Austerities (2012), winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and Kim Kardashian’s Marriage (2015), as well as numerous limited-edition titles. He runs the micropublisher If a Leaf Falls Press. Our Poem of the Week is ‘Safe Poem’ from Sam Riviere’s collection ...
1 day ago · Naveen William Sidney Andrews (born 17 January 1969) [1] is a British and American actor. He is best known for his role as Sayid Jarrah in the television series Lost (2004–2010), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, as well as winning a Screen Actors Guild Award along with the cast.
2 days ago · Japanese Buddhism. Maitreya is a central figure for the Japanese Yogacara school (Hossō-shū) who considers Maitreya to be the founder of the tradition. Maitreya (Jp. Miroku) devotion was extensively promoted during the Kamakura period (1185–1333) by Hossō-shū scholars like Jōkei (1155–1213).
21 hours ago · Lumbini is the birthplace of Buddha according to Buddhist tradition, and was made a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1997. Experts from UNESCO had recommended placing it on the agency’s list of sites in danger, saying that the deterioration of key features to the site shows an “alarming state of conservation.”
2 days ago · Early Buddhist texts state that Buddha visited a town near Rajagriha (modern Rajgir – the capital of Magadha) called Nalanda on his peregrinations. He delivered lectures in a nearby mango grove named Pavarika and one of his two chief disciples, Shariputra, was born in the area and later attained nirvana there.
1 day ago · FILE- Sayamongkhoun Alexandera, right, a Buddhist monk from France, prays in front of the birthplace of Lord Buddha, in Lumbini, about 290 kilometers (175 miles) southwest of Katmandu, Nepal, Nov ...
4 days ago · Musical supervision is by Joe Beighton (42 Balloons, Babies); set design by Moi Tran (The Homecoming); costume design by Max Johns (Choir Boy); lighting by Jai Morjaria (The Buddha of Suburbia); and sound by Paul Gatehouse (The Little Big Things). What songs are in Why Am I So Single? The score has yet to be heard in full.
