“Healing the World” is an ever more urgent theme for the Bahai-hosted World Religion Day in Hong Kong
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Lord Shiva
we have traveled ten thousanddreamless mileswithout each other,in the past,present, and future, in unknown realms,unguarded, in a dungeon of thorns,by both spirits and men.Each morning, I sit in envyof those who knew you rising from your bed,to place a garlandof Datura fruits around my neck George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been […]
Maithuna in Buddhist Art
Photo: Maithuna, Eastern Ganga dynasty, 13th century Orissa, India The notion of the eternal union of man and woman spawned an incredibly diverse abundance of sexual images in Hindu and Buddhist art. In the Hindu tantras the idea of the couple and the act of copulation is called maithuna—a Sanskrit term, which has several meanings […]