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3 days ago · Valuable inputs from Stephen Jenkins and Martyna Kobus are gratefully acknowledged. I have also benefitted from useful discussions with Amitabha Bose, Dipankar Dasgupta, Pradip Maiti, Mihir Rakshit, Susmita Rakshit and Soumyen Sikdar. The usual caveat applies.
3 days ago · Kolkata: A tribute titled 'Celebrating Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Master of Surreal Art' will be held here on July 6 to honour the life and contributions of the late auteur, who passed away over two ...
4 days ago · The program began with a tribute to the portrait of Kobi Kazi Nazrul Islam by Sri Siddhartha Dasgupta, the honorable General Secretary of Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Memorial Society, Sri Prodip Ganguly, the honorable General Secretary of Bengal Association, Delhi, and Dr. Amitabha Mukherjee.
4 days ago · Amitabha is generally understood as a specific Buddha, one of the Five Tathagathas, some of the most prominent Buddhas in the tradition. However, in some Tibetan Buddhist writings, Amitabha is equated with the Dharmakaya and with the Dzogchen concept of the basis or ground (gzhi).
3 days ago · AITC. Legislative Assembly elections were held in 2016 for 294 seats of the Vidhan Sabha in the Indian state of West Bengal. The All India Trinamool Congress under Mamata Banerjee won 211 seats, and thus was re-elected with an enhanced majority. Like in the 2011 election, the poll was held in six phases, with the first phase divided into two days.
3 days ago · In East Asian Buddhism, the most popular Buddha used for this practice is Amitabha. [172] [177] East Asian Mahāyāna Buddhism also teaches numerous unique meditation methods, including the Chan (Zen) practices of huatou , koan meditation , and silent illumination (Chinese: mòzhào, which developed into the Japanese shikantaza method).
2 days ago · Kolkata, July 3 (PTI) A tribute titled ‘Celebrating Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Master of Surreal Art’ will be held here on July 6 to honour the life and contributions of the late auteur, who passed away over two years ago.
