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TianGong

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TianGong is a 31 year old guy from Ontario, Canada

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  • Un prophete Trailer

    Rated Dec 17 1 review movies, video youtube.com

    Looks amazing! Can't wait for the DVD release... The synopsis: "Condemned to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena cannot read nor write. Arriving at the jail entirely alone, he appears younger and more fragile than the other convicts. He is 19 years old. Cornered by the leader of the Corsican gang who rules the prison, he is given a number of "missions" to carry out, toughening him up and gaining the gang leader's confidence in the process. But Malik is brave and a fast learner, daring to secretly develop his own plans..."


  • Dance from Jahrgang 45

    Rated Dec 17 1 review foreign films, video youtube.com

    As a document of the postwar GDR, this film has special appeal -- the aesthetics, music, and the depiction of the youth culture are all masterfully executed.


  • Reviews the book `The Buddhist Priest Myoe

    Rated Dec 10 1 review buddhism, dreams ntu.edu.tw

    From the page: "The dreams he [Myoe] scrupulously recorded in his dairy
    constitute a crucial part of his inner life, and
    together with his waking life, form a single tapestry
    of brilliant colors and scenes."
  • Three Hierarchies: The Worlds First Hippies and Their...

    Rated Dec 09 1 review drugs blogspot.com

    From the page: "They take some hemp seed, creep into the tent, and throw the seed on to the hot stones. At once it begins to smoke, giving off a vapor unsurpassed by any vapor-bath one could find in Greece. The Scythians enjoy it so much that they howl with pleasure."
  • Forty Years Later, We Remember Fred Hampton's Life and...

    Rated Dec 07 1 review american history racewire.org

    From the page: "We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class, and when I talk about the masses, I'm talking about the white masses, I'm talking about the black masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses, too. We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you donâ€t fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don't fight capitalism with no black capitalism; you fight capitalism with socialism. "
  • The Musical Offering -- The Musical Geometry of Bachs...

    Rated Dec 05 2 reviews classical music, european history, music schillerinstitut.dk

    From the page: "We are about to embark on a conceptual journey through Johann Sebastian Bach's creative mind. The Musical Offering, and the even greater Art of the Fugue, were consciously written as musical pedagogical workshops, to educate Bach's students, and generations of future musicians, in the art of polyphonic (many-voiced) contrapuntal composition.

    In the Musical Offering, Bach uses King Frederick's "Royal theme," to create a series of ten canons. But the fun part is that they are puzzle canons -- he does not write out all of the voices."
  • thezensite: The Lotus Sutra as a Source for Dogens...

    Rated Dec 03 1 review buddhism thezensite.com

    From the page: "In this jodo Dogen describes a dream-like fantasy in which he accidentally steps on a piece of shit, and in accord with Yun-men's utterance often cited by Dogen, it jumps up and declares itself to be Shakyamuni. This vision increases the apparent disrespect for Buddha in Yun-men's utterance, as Dogen again steps on his back (albeit again accidentally), even after the dried shit identifies himself as Shakyamuni. But Dogen uses this scatological vision not to degrade, but rather to further celebrate Buddha, by declaring that upon being stepped on, "He went and sat on the vajra seat, saw the morning star, bit through the traps and snares of conditioned birth, and cast away his old nest from the past."

    Here Dogen skillfully proclaims and celebrates, non-explicitly, one of the major revelations of the Lotus Sutra, that of the Buddha's life-span enduring over inconceivable ages..."
  • Rabindranath Tagore and His Contemporary Relevance -- An...

    Rated Dec 03 1 review education, religion, philosophy parabaas.com

    From the page: "This article focuses on the inter-religious communication part of the utsav, an area that poses immense problems in our troubled world today, and one that deeply concerned Tagore throughout his lifetime. In particular, Rabindranath's perspective and insights on what he has called "spiritual culture" and how religion should and should not be taught within the Santiniketan setting will be examined through some of his comments regarding the teaching of religion and the cultivation of the human spirit."
  • Nature of the threat

    Rated Dec 01 1 review nature, video youtube.com

    From the lyrics: "I paraphrase historian Ishakamusa Barashango
    'Understand that regardless of the lofty ideas ingraved on paper
    in such documents as the Constitution or Declaration
    the basic nature.. of the European American white man
    remains virtually unchanged'.. so check..
    This is the nature of the threat."


  • Men to Boys

    Rated Dec 01 1 review american history columbia.edu

    From the page: "Cross matches the rise of the American boy-man to trends in twentieth-century advertising, popular culture, and consumerism, and he locates the roots of our present crisis in the vague call for a new model of leadership that, ultimately, failed to offer a better concept of maturity."