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Lina Verchery is getting her Master’s of Divinity in Buddhism, a topic she has been thinking about since her undergraduate days at McGill University in Montreal. Later encounters with Buddhism, including a month-long residency at a Buddhist monastery in Taiwan, fueled the passion she exhibits in her short film, “the Bird...
...short film, entered in the “Use of Library Resources” category, depicts a young girl who becomes fascinated with a bird she sees in a book of Buddhist paintings in Lamont. She proceeds to research on both Google and Hollis until she finds more about the mysterious picture. Finally satisfied, she exits Lamont to reflect on a bird she sees on the lawn...
...shirts lined up to donate their blood, which was then splashed by the bucketful at the Prime Minister's office and private residence. Brahmin priests attended the bloodletting, casting hexes on the government amid swirls of incense. Such black magic, which dates back to Thailand's pre-Buddhist past, might seem like the domain of superstitious peasants. But last year, yellow-shirt leader and media mogul Sondhi Limthongkul placed sanitary napkins soaked with menstrual blood around a Bangkok monument as part of a spell designed to vanquish Thaksin. Many locals seem to believe that witchcraft will be just as influential...
...Thailand is a nation that prides itself on its Theravada Buddhist heritage. But Buddhism in Thailand is blended with a brew of Hindu, animist, Khmer, pagan and other beliefs. King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the country's 82-year-old constitutional monarch, spent time as a Buddhist monk but also retains astrologers and Brahmin priests at court, as is tradition. So it's no wonder that coup plotters, Prime Ministers and lawmakers have frequently consulted fortune-tellers before making important decisions. Performing dark rites to increase one's power and defeat your adversaries is as pervasive among the political class as bribery...
...only Buddhist nations that are consumed by the occult. In the past, leaders in indonesia, the world's largest Muslim country, have been known to consult javanese mystics who mix islam, hinduism and animist beliefs. But the most occult obsessed nation in the region is easily Burma. Former dictator Ne Win was so consumed by numerology that in 1987 he demonetized all bank notes and reissued ones only with the number nine or divisible by the number nine. That was his lucky number, but it proved less auspicious for the millions who had their savings wiped out in the move...