PareByokeLantern Festival celebrated across China Lantern show held in inner Mongolia to celebrate the coming Lantern Festival 2010 Taipei Lantern Festival kicks off Handan city in Hebei province hold temple fair to greet Lantern Festival Lantern Festival celebrated across China People of Miao ethnic group celebrate traditional Tiaohua Festival Evening gala held in UAE to […]
Lantern Festival celebrated across China http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/photo/2010-03/01/c_13192664.htm Lantern Festival carnival in Beijing Lantern Festival celebrated in Shanghai Folk art performance staged to celebrate Lantern Festival Tujia people celebrate local Danian festival
Lantern Festival: A brief overview http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/culture/2010-03/02/c_13193803.htm BEIJING, March 2 — The first full moon of every lunar new year falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month. This day is also known as the Lantern Festival in China. It marks the official end to the two-week Spring Festival celebration. As the name “Lantern […]
YouTube – CHENGDU LANTERN FESTIVAL 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezZHVeVqdwI&feature=related February 28, 2010 — Photography by Sandra Miller http://graffitimagery.com Chengdu China Lantern Festival February 12, 2010 Spectacular! Many tx for sharing this! Simply amazing! YouTube – River Hongbao 2010 – Display of Dazzling Lanterns from Chengdu, China http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdsgbjt1d70&feature=related I love the Chinese New Year music which full of […]
kaiAll Dhamma friends We would like to invited you and your family our Kasone Banyan Tree Watering Fastival and Azusa Niban-Zay. Please click the links below. 1. Kasone Fastival (May 23, 2010) (ကဆုန်ညောင်ရေသွန်းပွဲတော်) http://www.myanmar-pba.org/pdfs/37.pdf 2. Niban Zay (June 27, 2010) (နိဗ္ဗာန်ဈေးပွဲတော်) http://www.myanmar-pba.org/pdfs/38.pdf 3. Azusa Monastery 2009 Niban Zay Video. Part I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gY_YNhEe5A Part II http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9n8KS5s-s4 […]
KyaemonThis story reminds me of a poor woman in Buddha’s time. She was very poor. Yet, she wanted to donate what little she had. She was struggling with her decision for quite some time. Buddha knew about it, but he didn’t intervene. Finally, she made the donation out of her pure cetana (goodwill or generosity). […]
Gift Shows China Philanthropy Has Reached the Big Leagues Charity Surges on the Mainland as Donations Fall in the U.S.; ‘Time for Us to Give,’ top Chinese Philanthropist Says Chinese Philanthropy Comes of Age – WSJ.com http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703612804575221880681800788.html?mod=WSJ_World_RIGHTTopCarousel HONG KONG—A real-estate and hotel tycoon’s billion-dollar giveaway is the latest sign that Chinese philanthropy has come of […]
Reminds me of the “yet yaza’s” (auspicious days), “pyat thadar’s” (inauspicious days), and “nagar layt” (facing dragon) in Myanmar calendars. “Don’t move towards a dragon facing in the opposite direction and waiting to swallow you up” is the idea behind this direction finder. Fortune tellers especially love to couple their advice with certain days. Like […]
Photos: The Sinuous Vision of Architect Zaha Hadid – Photo Essays – TIME http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1985954_2131979,00.html Zaha Hadid – The 2010 TIME 100 – TIME http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1984685_1984745_1984651,00.html YouTube – Interview with Zaha Hadid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk-vhQSycfI&feature=related Zaha Hadid and Amman’s New Performing Art Center. http://bit.ly/deWdNZ YouTube – Zaha Hadid Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27rjmtgyyHo&feature=related YouTube – Zaha Hadid Talking About Challenges of Architecture […]
The 2010 TIME 100 In our annual TIME 100 issue we name the people who most affect our world Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1984685_1984745_1984651,00.html#ixzz0nyyWBCxS The first time I experienced Zaha Hadid’s work — in 2000, at an exhibit of 20 years of her designs at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London — I had a visceral […]
ဆောင်းပါးလေးတပုဒ်ဖတ်မိလို့ မျှတာပါ။ အမေများနေ့လည်း ကျော်သွားပြီဆိုပေမဲ့…အမေဆိုတာက အဝေးရောက်သားသမီးများအတွက် ဘယ်အချိန်မဆို ဖုန်းခေါ်ဖို ့ဆက်သွယ်ဖို ့ ပါမစ်ယူစရာမှမလိုတာနော..။ဖြစ်ချင်းဖြစ်ရင်..သားသမီးတွေကသာ အမေရေ၊အခုမအားသေးဖူး၊ အလုပ်များနေတယ်၊ ချိန်းထားလို့ Busy, Busy နောက်မှပြန်ဆက် စသဖြင့် ပြောတတ်ကြတာမဟုတ်ပါလား။ ဒီခေတ်ကာလကြီးမှာ လူတွေလူတွေဟာ လုမှုရေးကိစ္စတွေရှုပ်ထွေး၊ နိုင်ငံရေးတွေ ပူပင်ရ၊ ချစ်သူတွေနဲ့ အဆင်မပြေ၊ စိတ်ကောက်သူတွေနဲ့ ပြိုင်ကောက်၊ အလုပ်တွေမှာ လိပ်ခဲတည်းလည်းတွေဖြစ်နဲ့ “ခေတ်ကြီးကိုက ဆိုးပါတယ်။” ဆိုးတာကြောင့် စိတ်တွေလည်း ဂယောက်ဂယက်နဲ့ စထရက်စ်ခေါ်တဲ့…လောဘ၊ဒေါသ၊မောဟတွေလွန်နေတတ်တာလည်း ဓမ္မတာလို့တောင် ပြောရမှာပါ။ကဲ.. ဓမ္မတာ လာပြီဆိုပါတော့..(တလွဲမတွေးနဲ ့နော)..ဘာလုပ်ကြမှာလည်း၊ ဘာတွေလုပ်နေသလည်း ..လုပ်သင့်သလည်း မေးချင်ကြမှာပါ။ စထရက်စ်က လူကြီးတွေမှ မဟုတ်ပါဘူး၊ ကလေးလေး ပိစိပေါက်စတောင်ရှိတယ် ဆိုပါတယ်။ တိရိဆန်တွေမှာလည်း ရှိတာပါပဲ။ ရေထဲက ဂဏ္ဍန်းတောင် စထရက်စ်ရှိရင် အသားနည်းတယ် […]
Gulf Coast Oil Spill Oil-stained cattle egret sits on crew swing – Yahoo! News Photos http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Gulf-Coast-Oil-Spill/ss/events/us/042110oilrigexplode;_ylt=AiRVWiL.H7.bKyTb9_8AiUep_aF4;_ylu=X3oDMTFlcWFuNHZ0BHBvcwMzBHNlYwN5bl9yXzNzbG90X3NsaWRlc2hvdwRzbGsDc2xpLWV2LWxpbms-#photoViewer=/100510/480/urn_publicid_ap_org5c8d2c0c7e71448c81807ba6dc8ee41c 565 pictures Gulf spill reminds America: The era of ‘easy oil’ is over WASHINGTON — To meet the world’s boundless thirst for oil, drillers are searching in the sand and mud of remote western Canada, the tough shale rock […]
Holi – (Indian Thingyan) II Both festivals are derived from Hindu mythology. However, water festivals in Burma and other parts of South east Asia and in Yunnan, have a different version from Indian Holi. Both of them are occasions of great fun and merriment, songs and dances, and of joyful splashing. Enjoy the different cultures […]