Archive for February, 2008
The Sutra of Returning to Your Original Nature
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
I am certainly no religious expert, and I’m not sure whether Palmer is right when he argues that:
Jingjing should be recognized as a Dharma King: a saint. One of the most outstanding Christians ever produced by China, he is also, to the best of our limited knowledge, the greatest product of the Tang Dynasty [...]
The Stone Sutra
Monday, February 4th, 2008
Palmer ends his book with a translation of the Stone Sutra that inspired his search for Da Qin and a brief history of the Christian Church in China, both of which proved quite interesting.
I was especially impressed by the opening lines of the Stone Sutra where the author restates Genesis and accounts for Man’s [...]
Hayden Carruth’s Toward the Distant Islands
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
I’ve finally finished my extended look at Taoism, and since the extended forecast calls for rain and more rain, which means very little birding, I’m looking forward to catching up on the stack of poetry books that I have gathered in anticipation of winter reading.
I’m going to begin with Hayden Carruth’s Toward the Distant Islands, [...]
A Little Color on a Gray Day
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Somedays you just have to make your own sunshine, so I decided to drive up to the Pacific Science Center with Lael to see their Butterfly Garden. 80 degrees felt just about perfect. After all these gray, drab days I was delighted to finally point my lens as at something colorful.
And it’s hard [...]
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