Word: nirvana
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...head, exchanges "garments by Poole" for a beggar's garb, and tosses his riches away. London, but for a few dishevelled lady-mystics, is unimpressed. So Jâli takes himself to Paris and there, under a willow tree in the Bois de Boulogne, invites the peace of Nirvana...
Technically, "the living Buddha" means the priest (or rather, the candidate for Nirvana) who is by way of being pope in Tibet of present day Buddhism. A new Buddha is, however, predicted for each cycle, and it is such, evidently, that Jâli for a time thought himself. His exotic career at Cambridge is delightfully Zuleika Dobsonesque, and artificial as his rustic life in the Bois...
...Buddhist paintings, with three exceptions, do not belong to the Hoyt collection, and of course are not as important as those to be found in the Boston Museum, which are the best outside the Orient. But these are of very real and decorative value. The Nirvana of the Buddha, half obliterated as it is, contains some splendid passages of color and most vivid drawings of the animals that mourn about the death couch...
...directly attributed to the single mindedness with which we as a nation have embraced industrial success as the standard of achievement. But the hollowness of a philosophy of life, which leads to nothing more substantial than mere progress, is already being felt with a poignancy, which even the Nirvana of Coolidgism has failed to allay. And in tracing the fading of the golden day into the gilded dusk, Lewis Mumford is voicing a discontent with the present idols, to which the pens of such widely different types of writers as Professor Babbitt, H. L. Mencken, and Sinclair Lewis have previously...
...throbbing joys of their dreaming. One day, the girl marries a young man and goes away. There is very little plot, even less action. But the play catches the very essence of sorrow?the passing of years, the frustration of desire, the ignorance of a paradise of Nirvana. For such a delicate symphony, the gentleness of Beatrice Terry as Prioress and the raspiness of Ruth Wilton as the disciplinary Sister Sagrario seem too strongly accented. Yet the production, as a whole, leaves an impression as beautiful as a faint winter sunset?and as heartbreaking...