National Geographic Archives: Up From Hiroshima
And so every morning the mother kneels at the Buddhist altar by her bed and offers up a can of tangerines to the soul of her lost daughter. . Last year the city was host to the Asian Games, marking its coming of age. . Here the idea of peace is ...
Where the Designers Shop
At C.G. Coe & Son, you can purchase a fine Oriental rug from a selection of international importers or create one from a wide variety of broadloom flooring materials. The family-owned The store carries everything from dining room sets and kitchen ...
Harvard Art Museums, Revamped and Reopened
He also left the museum a magnificent eighth-century high-relief sandstone Buddha, which had been chiseled free from a cave wall in northern China by unknown hands. We know exactly whose hands detached Buddhist frescos from another Chinese cave ...
Beretta Teams Up with Marc Newson for an Elegant New 486 Shotgun
I accidentally learned German, then studied in Berlin, which drove me to cover the fall of the Berlin Wall. This determines the larger part of The Asian motif engraving is continuous, which is to say, it carries around the receiver in a very ...
Gallery Report
A pair of 17th or early 18th century huanghuali stools, one of them retaining a label from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, sold for $448,400 at an auction held April 18 by Quinn & Farmer in Charlottesville, Va. Also, a 17th or Also, a ...
There Is a Path that Frees Us from Suffering
Originally from Jamaica, Sharpe has a complex heritage—white, black, and Chinese. “I'm so As a Buddhist practitioner in the Insight Meditation tradition, she never had any qualms about attending retreats that were otherwise all white, and for a ...
2015 New Year's celebrations around the world: Beach parties and fireworks
In New Zealand, a giant clock on Auckland's landmark Sky Tower structure counted down the minutes until the New Year, with a huge fireworks display launching from the tower at midnight. ___. PRAYERS Celebrations will also take place in Zhangjiakou ...