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Photo exhibition: Li Gotami

Edit The Hindu 03 Jun 2016
The personal collections of artist and photographer Rutty Petit, who went on to become Li Gotami on ......

The inheritance of loss

Edit The Hindu 03 May 2016
A senior literacy activist once told me about how the great Shivaram Karanth wrote a set of stories in the 1950s to help illiterate adults learn to read. It was for a UNESCO project in Mysuru ... Parables of the mustard seed ... the parable of Kisa Gotami and the mustard seeds ... Thus her grief was calmed ... I thought again of the story of Kisa Gotami and the mustard seeds on the day my mother died in a cancer hospital in Mumbai eight years ago....

The interpreter of maladies

Edit Indian Express 17 Jan 2016
An ear cleaner at work by unknown Delhi artist, 1825; The Ayurvedic Man, an 18th century drawing, possibly of Nepalese origin ... Vaswani says, “While Ayurveda is definitely an Indian tradition, it is not necessarily a Hindu one, as is popularly believed.” He uses Buddha with Five Ascetics, a 1948 Li Gotami copy of a Tibetan fresco, to highlight this idea, propounded by Kenneth Zysk in his book Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India ... ....

In the best of health

Edit The Hindu 12 Jan 2016
Why is the city’s biggest museum holding an exhibition on the history of medical practices and traditional healing? ... Hints to these links are seen in a copy of a 1940s Li Gotami fresco from Tibet (part of the CSMVS permanent collection) or in paintings depicting the use of cannabis as pain medication ... For Vaswani, these quarters represent locations within which certain transactions of healing are carried out ... the Ayurvedic Man ... Tabiyat....

Why was I spared from Amtrak Train 188's crash?

Edit CNN 22 May 2015
(CNN)"i think the Amtrak i just got off just crashed in philly.". I texted that note to my wife on the night of May 12 ... Which I am ... I felt sick ... The Rev ... Reading through Buddhist scriptures, Fisher wrote in an essay, he came across the story of Kisa Gotami, a mother mourning the death of her child. She asks the Buddha to revive her son, and he agrees, provided Gotami can bring him a mustard seed from a home that has never experienced loss....

Thai TV anchor turned monk fights for women's right to be ordained

Edit South China Morning Post 10 May 2015
"Thank you for giving me life and please forgive my mistakes," says Sunanta, 29, weeping at her mother's feet. She is taking part in a ceremony that would-be clergy must go through as part of their ordination ... Together they recite the sacred precepts of Buddhism ... In the scriptures, the Buddha, reluctant at first, finally ordains his foster mother, Queen Mahapajapati, along with 500 other women, among whom is his own wife, Yasodhara ... ....

Feminism Awakens In Himalayan Buddhist Art and Meditation

Edit Huffington Post 31 Jan 2015
On the left is Mahapajapati Gotami, the Buddha's stepmother and aunt and the first woman to request and receive ordination from the Buddha ... For this viewer, the representation of real women grounded in history, as is Mahapajapati Gotami -- that is if we confer historicism to the legend of Siddhārtha Gautama....

Message from the Buddha says avoid attachments

Edit Daily Press 11 Oct 2014
On one occasion, Mahapajapati Gotami, the Buddha's aunt and foster mother, asked him, "Bhante, it would be good if the Blessed One would teach me the Dhamma (teaching) in brief, so that, ….I might dwell alone, withdrawn, headful, ardent, and resolute.". The Buddha replied, "Gotami, those things of which you might know ... 'This is the Dhamma; this is the discipline; this is the teaching of the Teacher.'" ... The Buddha said ... ....
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