“A snapshot pic from Bhutan, where Lopon Pemala, a cleric who is overseeing the building of a Bhuddhist monastery, comments: ‘Because we believe in reincarnation, our view of history, of the individual, is different. And so is our view of the modern world. Modernity has only one dimension. Museums are the institutions of modernity. The past is imprisoned there. In Tibet, the Chinese have made our temples into museums. We do not want that to happen here.’” From Jay Griffiths’ “Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time”
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 02:21:17 +0000
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