Sentences with phrase «tibetan prayer»

Not dark plaid, not brown, not shades of grey, and certainly not black: but bright banners like knights» pennants, like Tibetan prayer flags, like the laundry line at a circus.

The numbers of the clock are painted red, the main color of the Chinese flag, while the pneumatic tubes that power the movement of the clock are yellow, white, red, and blue, the colors of Tibetan prayer flags.

A collaboration between illustrator Robert Beer, an expert on Tibetan silk brocade thangka paintings, and Tad Wise, who has previously written about Tibetan prayer flags, this book is intended not as a curiosity, but for reflection and meditation on the go.

Among the books, all of which either wear their contemporary paper jackets or are recent paper - backs, on the shelves that climb the walls, are displayed plastic reproductions of such things as a Tibetan prayer wheel, African masks, a cross or two, a grinning gargoyle, several Indian - temple loving couples, and (standing in a corner) a crosier.

Not exact matches

Among those they cite are Tibetans who make prayer wheels from «cast - off plastic Pepsi - Cola bottles.»

When a contemporary Jesuit from Boston teaches a Buddhist mindfulness technique to his flock or an ecumenically minded Tibetan lama expropriates a Christian prayer, we have something analogous to John Ruskin's rhapsodies about the Elgin marbles, or Henry Steele Olcott's attempts to tell Sinhalese Buddhists what their religion was really all about.

It is not realised that nearly one thousand million Moslems are entirely wedded tothe idea of repetition in the Salah, when turning to Mecca five times a day; or the Tibetan lama when he says his prayers, and all the followers of Eastern meditation.

Is the child's prayer «Now I lay me down to sleep...» from which the book's title is taken comparable to the Tibetan Book of the Dead, or is the vision of the latter best measured against Dante's Divine Comedy?

you would be ok with hindu prayer in school, a koran on the mayor's desk, a tibetan buddhist prayer bell at ground zero or a whole host of non-christian religious items?

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Shortly after the nuns, monks, and others who studied with him began the Tibetan Buddhist prayers that accompany death, they noticed that Khenpo A-chos's skin began to turn soft and pinkish.

To test his theory, Newberg has scanned the brains of more than 20 adherents of spiritual practices, including Christian prayer and Tibetan Buddhist meditation.

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For Tibetans, kora means walking around a sacred place absorbed in prayer, a kind of pilgrimage that can encompass hundreds of miles or only a few yards.

The exhibition also presents a Turkish prayer rug, Dogon altar ladder, Khmer stupa, lace, Mbuti bark cloth drawings, Pomo baskets, Micronesian navigational charts, Tibetan meditation mandalas and a bronze seated Buddha, a Wow!

A diminished image of the A-bomb, Nietzsche's furrowed brow, a-maze-ing Jesus, orgone accumulators, omnipotent gods, Tibetan Buddhist prayer... all are used to discuss a sense of spiritual bankruptcy and a perceived usurpation of religious faith by faith in power, science, violence and state.