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...Daimoku is a ritual prayer whose Sanskrit and Chinese words, "Nam-myoho-renge-kyo," are roughly translatable as "Glory to the Lotus Sutra of the Mystical Law." In homes, it is usually chanted in front of a Go-honzon, a small wooden altar containing a replica of the original prayer scroll, the Dai-Gohonzon, still enshrined in Japan. * One Soka Gakkai song-to the tune of I've Been Working on the Railroad-immortalizes the practice: "I've been doing shakubuku all the livelong...
...unearthly sense of tranquillity. After meditation, the striking of a bell signals the start of a 20-minute Zen service. Although a few of these sessions are partly in English, the early morning one is in Japanese. Collectively, the students chant the Prajnā-Pāramita Sutra: "Form is not different from emptiness. Emptiness is not different from form. Form is emptiness. Emptiness is the form...
...Metastaseis, leotard-clad dancers writhe, roll and wrestle around a bare stage against a stark background. But where the Balanchine ballet suggested the physics lab, the permutations of Ceremony smacked of the Kama Sutra in slow motion, as the dancers' bodies were juxtaposed in a complex series of stately tableaux. The maneuvers, however, were less sensual than static-and, accompanied as they were by a chilling, unromantic score, seemed as moving as a set of judo diagrams...
...BEST OF THE LOVIN' SPOONFUL (Kama Sutra). Albums of golden oldies are giving way to collections of shiny newies. This is the instant anthology of the folk-rock group known as the Lovin' Spoonful: five songs from their Day Dream album, one from their Hums and six from Do You Believe in Magic, their first LP, which is not yet two years old. In any event, the new collection is already one of the top sellers, proving that one hit album deserves another, even if it consists of more or less the same songs...
...LOVE (Vanguard). A surprisingly tasteful blend of erotica and exotica as Saeed Jaffrey, an Indian actor who has been seen on Broadway (A Passage to India), reads his own translation of the Kama Sutra-the classic Hindu celebration of sex-against a background of shimmering Indian music...