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Save Bhutan's Sacred Buddhist Art

August 13, 2009 by MarcO Bartholomew

S.O.S – “B.O.A.T” from Bhutan
“Save Our Sacred Buddhist Original Art Treasures” from Bhutan by finding a Home of Honor!

Rescue the worlds Largest Private Buddhist Textile Art Heritage Collection from Bhutan! We seek immediate funding either through a benefactor and/or a few individual piece sales. This is the only opportunity that we will offer a few rare individual pieces to the Friends of Buddhism. Once we receive initial funding we will be able to reveal the Collection to the world and find its permanent Home of Honor. We sincerely ask YOU, Friend of Buddhism, to give your support to this noble cause.
For 25 years the largest Private Buddhist Art Heritage Collection from Bhutan has been stored away and never seen by anyone! This Collection consists primarily of antique Buddhist textiles and some sacred religious artifacts from Bhutan. Recently this unique collection was endangered in California by major fires and earthquakes…

The Holy Sculptor

July 15, 2009 by Grzegorz Ostrega

I was born in 1932 to a poor farming family in Kongpo Bhuchu (Tibet) which is famous for pilgrims.

On the outskirts of McLeod Ganj, India, in dark and moist, lay quarter of the Zilnon Kagyeling Nyingmapa Monastery stands an attached hut so small it looks like a dollhouse. You have to bow to enter.

A kitchen arranged in the corridor - which still keeps you bowing - and an ascetic small room containing wee bed and tiny bookcase filled with gods figurines, offering cups and tv pushed into a corner make in fact all the living space for an old, always smiling Tibetan man. You can't say if that was Nature on his birth or just old age, which gave him such a small posture.

Signals from a failing state

July 12, 2009 by Khaled Ahmed

Pakistan Aik Nakaam Riyasat By Mujahid Husain

Politicians signing brilliantly democratic but unfamiliar charters confuse Pakistan by swearing that they will be friends and not destabilise each other in the old pavlovian reflex of toppling that the country is used to. In fact if you don’t topple, there is something seriously wrong with you

Mujahid Husain as a journalist is a man of the field but lately his columns in daily Aajkal have caught the attention of the reader who wants something new in Urdu journalism. He knows the facts that back his perceptions and is easy with the language so that the message gets across, and he keeps himself out of his message, which is quite unusual in Pakistan where the column has been reduced to anecdotal egotism that readers must accept as analysis.

BFF might include an African team in Bangabandhu Cup

June 30, 2009 by bdnews24.com

Dhaka, June 29 (bdnews24.com) – The Bangladesh Football Federation is thinking of including an African club in the Bangabandhu Cup in October after Algerian Club Cup champions CR Belouizdad showed interest in the eight-team competition in Dhaka.

"We have been considering the inclusion of Algerian club CR Belouizdad in the Bangabandhu Cup after the club president through an agent told us that they are interested in participating in the meet," said BFF general secretary Al Mussabir Sadi on Monday.

Expat talent willing to take a cut in pay to stay on

June 6, 2009 by Anjali Prayag

Bangalore:
A large Indian retail chain that hired a South African expert a couple of years back to set up its malls/stores recently made him a ‘slowdown’ offer: to continue to work at an Indian salary (which meant a 50 per cent cut in his annual compensation) or quit. Interestingly, he opted to stay for a ‘decent India salary and top management perks.’

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