‘Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet’ By Kurt Behrendt (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Images called mandalas, whatever their physical form — paintings, sculptures, designs made from grains of sand — are salvation devices. They’re visions of a realm of balance that lies beyond the chaotic world we know, and charters of how to find a way to that better, realer place. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a major exhibition of Tibetan Buddhist examples, most dating from the 12th to the 14th century, through Jan. 12. The catalog, with lead essays by the curator, Kurt Behrendt, is packed with fabulous images, of goddesses as lithe as ABT dancers, holy men who unflappably levitate as you look and demonic-looking deitieswhose mission it is to keep agents of chaos — which proliferate these days — out.
被稱為曼陀羅的圖像，無論其物理形式如何——繪畫、雕塑、沙粒製成的設計——都是救贖手段。它們是超越我們所知的混亂世界的平衡境界的願景，也是如何找到通往那個更好、更真實的地方的方法的憲章。大都會藝術博物館舉辦了一場藏傳佛教實例大型展覽，大部分可追溯到12 世紀至14 世紀，一直持續到1 月12 日。 ) 撰寫的主要文章，其中充滿了神話般的女神圖像像ABT 舞者一樣輕盈，像你看起來那樣鎮定自若地懸浮在空中的聖人，還有看起來像惡魔的神靈，他們的使命是阻止混亂的代理人－這些混亂的代理人最近在擴散。
'The most vulnerable and poorest are treated by the Government with a callous brutality that is disgraceful'
Lithe and smiling, proud of his “boot-shaped” and blister-proof feet, he moved on exposed rock faces with the grace of a dancer and the fearlessness of a boy. He did things right: tents were dug in with proper snow-walls, supplies stored in well-marked snow-holes, attempts quickly abandoned if tiredness or bad weather struck.
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The state of marriage is shifting in unexpected ways. A TIME/Pew special report shows how income, age and experience alter our chances of wedded bliss
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"This was a performer who was at his very best, a character player who had the lithe sexuality and above-the-title watchability of a star. He had a lot more to give. It's desperately sad."http://gu.com/p/3mdvx/fb
unflappable
/ʌnˈflapəbl/
adjective
- having or showing calmness in a crisis."I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic circumstances"
levitate
/ˈlɛvɪteɪt/
verb
- rise or cause to rise and hover in the air, typically by means of supposed magical powers."I swear to God he levitated over the bar"
happiness
- hap • pi • ness
- 発音
- hǽpinis
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callous
ˈkaləs/
adjective
- 1.showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others."his callous comments about the murder made me shiver"
lithe[lithe]
- 発音記号[láið]
[形]（lith・er, lith・est）〈人間・動物が〉しなやかな, 柔軟な；骨の柔らかい.
lithe・ly
[副]
lithe・ness
[名]- (especially of a person’s body) thin, supple, and graceful:she lay gazing up at his tall, lithe figure
MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES
- She could feel the strength his lithe body possessed, even wounded and laying on a table.
- For the inaugural event, the dancers' lithe bodies were swathed in white.
- Hung on a stark frame, it was a mould of her long, lithe body.
Derivatives
Origin
Old English līthe 'gentle, meek' also 'mellow', of Germanic origin; related to German lind 'soft, gentle'.
More definitions of lit
bliss
n.
- Extreme happiness; ecstasy.
- The ecstasy of salvation; spiritual joy.
bliss out Slang.
- To go into a state of ecstasy.
blissfully bliss'ful·ly adv.
blissfulness bliss'ful·ness n.
[名][U]
1 無上の喜び, 至福
in married ［wedded］ bliss
幸福に結婚して.
幸福に結婚して.
2 《神学》天上の喜び；天国, 楽園.
━━[動]((次の句で))
bliss out
((俗))(自)(他)幸福［恍惚(こうこつ)］感に浸る［浸らせる］.blithe
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Pronunciation: /blʌɪð /
ADJECTIVE
- 1showing a casual and cheerful indifference considered to be callous or improper:a blithe disregard for the rules of the road
MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES
- But he never scorned security with the blithe indifference of the radical ideologues who used him as an authority on the evils of welfare.
- How do you strike the right balance between unnecessarily fostering fears and encouraging a blithe indifference to real and present dangers?
- The outrageousness of his action is matched only by the blithe indifference with which he apparently expects to carry it off.
Derivatives
Origin
Old English blīthe, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch blijde, also to bliss.
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