New Mandala

New Mandala readers in Oxford will be keen to know that Andrew is presenting a paper at a seminar tomorrow.  It will be held from 5.00 to 6.30 pm on Wednesday, 11 October, in the Deakin Room, Founder’s Building, St Antony’s College, Oxford. 
The details follow:  
The festival, the abbot and the son of the Buddha: modern [...]

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In one of the most unexpected pieces of news to come out this week, the Bangkok Post, and others, are reporting that the new Rambo film, Rambo IV: In the Serpent’s Eye, follows the title character as he fights Burmese “pirates/soldiers” to free captured Christian missionaries.  According to these initial reports, the missionaries in the [...]

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…said:
“The King holds a very, very special place…only this King can get the people the things they deserve…The Thai King’s place is completely different from other Kings…[he] went down to the masses”.
In light of the robust debate that New Mandala is currently hosting, these small extracts from a convoluted Sondhi answer give some insight into the [...]

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The new edition of The Irrawaddy delivers Clive Parker’s very informative and critical account from the dust of Burma’s new capital, Naypyidaw.  This is one of the first, and certainly the most extensive, eye-witness reports of this incredible development.  It is accompanied by Aung Zaw’s articles that put the new capital in broader historical and political context.  Both their efforts are superb - they [...]

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