Tag Archives: East-West Center
Mandala Making on the Web
In the 2014 excerpt from my journal “Climbing Bryan’s Mountain,” I commented on the Buddhist ritual of sand mandalas as a symbol of the beauty and impermanence of life. After days of patiently using colored sand to build the mandala’s elaborate … Continue reading
“Asia” in the New York Times
Below are my choices of the most interesting articles about “Asia” appearing in the New York Times. “Asia” in a very broad sense: including all of South Asia, the Philippines, and the “-stans,” (Afghanistan, Kyrgystan…). I’ve based my little archive on a … Continue reading