I suggest you read “The Gift of Fear” by Gavin de Becker — not necessarily because I think your husband is going to turn violent, though I could make a case for his being abusive in the quantity and intensity of the anger alone, even if it’s not at you. I recommend it because it’s a really...
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Jalandhar: With the state assembly elections now only months away, all political parties are opening promising prominence to communities and castes. With Jat Sikhs already assured dominance in state politics, BJP is pledging power to Dalits, which SAD is countering with Hindu and Dalit...
LHASA, China — China’s Communist Party is ramping up investment in Tibet in an effort to spur economic growth and ensure social stability as it seeks to foster harmony between Tibetans and settlers of Han Chinese ethnicity, who make up the majority of the country’s population.
The policy may be...
This article from FT Globetrotter is part of a guide to Hong Kong and a new cycling series running all summer on exploring great cities by bicycle
When I first started cycling in Hong Kong more than 15 years ago, I almost felt ashamed to admit my hobby to others.
At the time, it was a...
Miyazaki Hayao’s classic anime Spirited Away draws on Japan’s religious traditions in its depiction of the bathhouse world its central character Chihiro finds herself in. Theologian Masaki Akira offers his insights into interpreting the film.
The Power of Words
It has been 20 years since the...
Jetsunma Jamyang Palmo, a visiting teacher of Buddhism, walks down the hill from the prayer flags at the Garden of One Thousand Buddhas last week.
Jetsunma Jamyang Palmo is the primary teacher at the Turquoise Leaf Nunnery in Phaping, a major Buddhist center outside Kathmandu, Nepal...
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Leon Jones, the owner of Gringo Jones Imports at 4740 Shaw Boulevard, talks with customers at the front of his shop in St. Louis on Saturday, July 17, 2021. Jones was thinking about selling his shop and closing his building but has now decided to keep it open and...
One of the greatest episodes in Japanese history occurred so long ago it is in danger of being forgotten.
The earliest rumblings were in the fifth century. The climax — a palace revolt — came in 645. It marked a new era. The name given it is fitting: Taika, “great reform.” There have been few...
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.” (Paradise Lost, Book 1, 247).
“Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.” (Pali Canon, Udāna 4.33).
“Wonderful it is to train the mind, so...
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President says Kotelawala Defense University will be brought under University Grants Commission purview
Sat, Jul 17, 2021, 07:56 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
July 17, Colombo: President Gotabaya Rajapaksa briefed the Maha Sangha on the measures taken by the Government to...
In March 2001, mere months before the horrifying events of 9/11, the Taliban ruled Afghanistan with strict and severe oversight. Their leader, the mysterious one-eyed Mullah Omar, was famed for his inspiring piety and fastidious commitment to the tenets of Islam. But strangely, this devout and...
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