Seoul– This is the Oriental Year of the Boar, and throughout the Far East the English-speaking punsters are having an absolute circus with that one. But here in Korea – no matter what the zodiacal charts decree – it always seems nowadays to be
In the wake of the ritual suicide of Yukio Mishima, Japan’s leading novelist, a profitable – and at times macabre – cultural phenomenon has evolved. The Japanese, who are much given to instant labels, call it the “Mishima Boom.” It is an apt designation. Mishima
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– Hokusai “Now the Self is the state of being of all contingent beings. In so far as man pours libations and offers sacrifices, he is in the sphere of the gods; in so far as he recites the Veda he is in the sphere
A Study of the Human Impact of the New Seeds and Methods of Cultivation in Ghungrali-Rajputan, a Prosperous Village on the Punjab Plain in Northwest India Part One: Charan As a team of oxen are we drivenBy the ploughman, our teacherBy the furrows
