Sentences with phrase «by tibetan»

Bounded to the north by the Tibetan Plateau, to the west by deserts, and to the south by a bowl - like basin teeming with people, the mountains hold 10,000 glaciers.

Bringing to mind the sand mandalas painstakingly sprinkled by Tibetan monks, Yamamoto's creations, which take hundreds of hours to pour, are also ritually destroyed at the end of their creation and viewing.

The Bopa Dolls Workshop is an innovative women's handicraft cooperative staffed primarily by Tibetan women in exile from their homeland.

The artist is inspired by the colorful sand mandalas made by Tibetan monks that demonstrate the interconnectedness and impermanence of life.

Derek developed a system of marks, influenced by Tibetan rituals, to record the passage of time and his interactions with museum visitors.

The concept was inspired by Tibetan Buddhist theology surrounding the rainbow body phenomenon where enlightenment has been observed from a third person perspective, transforming the individual into rainbow light as they reach this state of enlightenment.

Gonkar Gyatso: Meditations on Irony Meditations on Irony, a solo exhibition by Tibetan - born, British artist Gonkar Gyatso, illuminates his practice of interweaving traditional Buddhist iconography with the detritus of pop culture.

This is the land of the yak, the red panda and the elusive snow leopard, revered by the Tibetan Buddhists who inhabit Sikkim, and the monasteries of the Red and Black Hat sect.

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Their origins are not fully clear, but the scientific evidence says that they were probably developed by Tibetan Monks, who offered these dogs as gifts to the emperors of China.

Introduction The TTCA-ONLINE.ORG website is maintained by the Tibetan Terrier Club of America, Inc. (TTCA).

Owning a Tibetan Terrier (or as some might say, being owned by a Tibetan Terrier) can be a wonderful experience.

The Red Necklaces worn by Tibetan Mastiff to protect them from predators and to distinguish them from a distance.

Besides having been created by the Tibetan lady saint Machig Labdrön herself, women have been spiritual leaders in the Chöd tradition down through history.

Today, introductory forms of the practice, brought to the West by Tibetan monks and lamas over the past several decades, are gaining popularity here.

Considered more potent than ginseng, this adaptogenic herb is revered by the Tibetan monks as being the supreme herb in traditional health modalities.

Inspired by a Tibetan Buddhist mind training practice called Lojong, author and executive coach M.J. Ryan has been using simple slogans with her clients to interrupt the habitual thought processes that hold them back.

Millions of women forego their favourite foods for new year weight loss goals, but an eating technique used by Tibetan monks means you needn't be one of them, writes Dr Evelyn Lewin

They were made by Tibetan monks who are living there in Exile and were so warm & comforting.

According to Tibetan tradition, the Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State was composed in the 8th century by Padmasambhava, written down by his primary student, Yeshe Tsogyal, buried in the Gampo hills in central Tibet and subsequently discovered by a Tibetan terton, Karma Lingpa, in the 14th century

(CNN)-- Stephen Prothero tells CNN's Suzanne Malveaux that the Dalai Lama should condemn immolation by Tibetans.

Reuters: Dalai Lama presses China to investigate Tibetan self - immolations Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Tuesday urged Japanese parliamentarians to visit Tibet, and for China to investigate the dozens of self - immolations by Tibetans.

CNN: Prothero: Dalai Lama should condemn immolations Stephen Prothero tells CNN's Suzanne Malveaux that the Dalai Lama should condemn immolation by Tibetans.

Not exact matches

During his tenure, embassy officials «advanced American values» by meeting with religious leaders and human rights lawyers and visiting Tibetan and Uighur ethnic minorities in Tibet and Xinjiang, Locke said.

Appeasing China by sacrificing the interests of the Tibetan people has not yielded any benefits for India, nor has there been tranquillity in the Himalayas in recent decades.

In other news, there was just a story about a Tibetan artist that was tortured by Chinese police for opposing their atheistic communism.

Yet surely the Church's role in any possibly humane Chinese future will be built around its steadfastness under persecution and its forthright defense of the human rights of all (including Uighurs, Tibetans, and Falun Gong devotees), not by reaching agreements with those who may well have harvested organs from Catholic dissidents, pioneering a new form of martyrdom.

Tibetans - in - exile hold a candlelight vigil following the self - immolation attempt by a monk in Kathmandu on February 13, 2013.

And then there are the «uninteresting» poor, people who obviously are not worth troubling about: the Biafrans, massacred by the federal troops of Nigeria; the monarchist Yemenites, burned by napalm and bombed into obliteration by the Egyptian air force from 1964 to 1967; the South Sudanese, destroyed en masse by the North Sudanese; the Tibetans, oppressed and deported by China; the Khurds, perhaps 500,000 of whom were massacred in Irak and Iran between 1955 and today.

Palestinian suffering becomes (the phrase is Goldhagen's) the «unifying symbol» for many people «who have never been troubled by oppression of Palestinians in Lebanon and Syria, or the fate of the world's many other stateless peoples, like the Kurds, Tamils, Tibetans, or Chechens.»

This movie came out of the gate with controversy for whitewashing the role of the «Ancient One» — a character who had been Tibetan in the comics, played in the movie by Tilda Swinton.

--»... But the fact that the Dalai Lama regularly meets with Western scientists to discuss the nature of the mind does not mean that Buddhism, or Tibetan Buddhism, or even the Dalai Lama's own lineage, is uncontaminated by religious dogmatism.

The Manchus established by force the Ch» ing imperialism which ruled over the majority of Han, Muslim, Mongolian, and Tibetan people.

The chapter in The Path of the Buddha on Tibet, by Lobsang Phuntsok Lhalungpa, an aide of the Dalai Lama, is a brief, systematic presentation of Tibetan Buddhism.

A more arduous, but richly rewarding, path to an appreciation of Tibetan Buddhism would be a study of The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa, recently translated by C. C. Chang.

We are raising the next crop of teachers to take over after we leave by having lay Tibetans and monks teach with us in India, study science, and teach with us at Emory.

You may also hear them being referred to by different names — Chinese wolfberries of Tibetan goji (source).

An ICM poll commissioned by the Free Tibet campaign found most people believed trade and Tibetan human rights were equally important.

The case for Tibetan independence was further brought to the world's eyes when the western legs of the Olympic torch relay were dominated by pro-Tibetan demonstrators.

Beijing says 19 people died in the riots, but the Tibetan government in exile says hundreds were killed by Chinese troops use of lethal force.

We also have a duty to support the struggle of the Tibetan people whose culture is being slowly eradicated by the authoritarian Chinese communist regime.

But China's successful bid to host the Games is criticised by human rights activists and Tibetan solidarity campaigners.

Because most of those existing samples originated from the Tibetan Plateau, the research team plugged a gap in the geographical coverage by going to little - studied northern central Asia.

«The air smelt particularly fresh after a heavy rainfall the night before,» says Dradül, the chief of Aru village, who like many Tibetans goes by one name.

The Tibetan Plateau in China experiences the strongest monsoon system on Earth, with powerful winds — and accompanying intense rains in the summer months — caused by a complex system of global air circulation patterns and differences in surface temperatures between land and oceans.

Perhaps that outlook can explain the warning offered by the China Meteorological Administration at a meeting in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa in early May that Tibet was warming faster than anywhere else in China.

Tibetan Uplift Fools Taxonomists: An Identity Crisis Solved by Anne - Marie Hodge: The Tibetan ground tit (Parus humilis) is a drab, unassuming little songbird.

The rivers that billions of Asians rely on to survive may not be dramatically affected by the meltdown of glaciers in the Tibetan Plateau, according to a new report

The conference included six presentations on meditation research, including a study by Richard Davidson of the University of Wisconsin that was supported by the Dalai Lama's Mind and Life Institute, in which the brain waves of meditating Tibetan monks were monitored and compared with those of novice meditators.

In fact, great breakthroughs in applied neuroplasticity were apparently made long ago by practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism.