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...video produces a severely diminishing effect--something like listening to the Nixon Oval Office tapes (though radically different orders of crime are under discussion). The grainy video brings down the image of bin Laden in something of the way that the Taliban blew up the giant statues of Buddha at Bamiyan...
...sounds more Taliban than zen , but there is a saying among teachers of the latter way of life, "If you see the Buddha, kill him!" The point being made in Zen's challenging way is that Buddha was a teacher not a god, and therefore visions or worship of him are forms of idolatry his followers should not fall...
...knows what the Buddha really looked like, any more than there is a definitive image of Jesus Christ, who arrived half a millennium later, but the various features artists have given the Buddha over thousands of years help to reflect the endless political and cultural changes in Afghanistan. A 2nd century marble head representing Siddhartha Gautama, the Nepalese prince who after years of futile asceticism sat down and found enlightenment, looks like a Mongol warrior, with moustache and wild curly hair. In most other sculptures in the exhibition the Buddha has fine, often-feminine looks...
...diversity better than those who have ruled Afghanistan in recent decades. Cambon says they showed "an extreme tolerance and true eclecticism if we bear in mind the diverse origins of the divinities that appear on the reverse of their coins: Greek, Iranian, Hindu, even the first figurative representation of Buddha...
...Ming was five when he arrived at Shaolin in 1969. He had suffered a near-fatal illness and his parents, believing he owed his recovery to Buddha, sent him to become a monk. It was a perilous time to join a monastic order. Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution was in full swing and the temple's remaining handful of monks were so busy fending off gangs of marauding Red Guards and writing self-criticisms that they had little time for new disciples...