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Article: The Forms and Meaning of Buddhism
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- India Abroad
- Article date:
- August 11, 1995
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Shivaji Sengupta
India Abroad
08-11-1995
The Forms and Meaning of Buddhism.
"In the monastery courtyard, a red-robed monk was dancing. His movements were studied, trancelike. He dipped and turned, balancing on one foot and then on the other. His open arms moved in slowmotion as his hands traced studied patterns in the air. He was barefoot; it was winter.
"He seemed oblivious to everything the sense might register, expect perhaps for the rhythmic skishhhh, skishhhh, skishhhh of the small cymbals played by a fellow monk a few yards away under the cloistered porch.
"Oblique rays of a golden afternoon sun threw a celestial spotlight into the corner, where these holy men toiled at perfecting their ...