PareByokeLantern Festival: A brief overview http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/culture/2010-03/02/c_13193803.htm BEIJING, March 2 — The first full moon of every lunar new year falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month. This day is also known as the Lantern Festival in China. It marks the official end to the two-week Spring Festival celebration. As the name “Lantern […]
YouTube – CHENGDU LANTERN FESTIVAL 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezZHVeVqdwI&feature=related February 28, 2010 — Photography by Sandra Miller http://graffitimagery.com Chengdu China Lantern Festival February 12, 2010 Spectacular! Many tx for sharing this! Simply amazing! YouTube – River Hongbao 2010 – Display of Dazzling Lanterns from Chengdu, China http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdsgbjt1d70&feature=related I love the Chinese New Year music which full of […]
KyaemonThis story reminds me of a poor woman in Buddha’s time. She was very poor. Yet, she wanted to donate what little she had. She was struggling with her decision for quite some time. Buddha knew about it, but he didn’t intervene. Finally, she made the donation out of her pure cetana (goodwill or generosity). […]
Gift Shows China Philanthropy Has Reached the Big Leagues Charity Surges on the Mainland as Donations Fall in the U.S.; ‘Time for Us to Give,’ top Chinese Philanthropist Says Chinese Philanthropy Comes of Age – WSJ.com http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703612804575221880681800788.html?mod=WSJ_World_RIGHTTopCarousel HONG KONG—A real-estate and hotel tycoon’s billion-dollar giveaway is the latest sign that Chinese philanthropy has come of […]
Reminds me of the “yet yaza’s” (auspicious days), “pyat thadar’s” (inauspicious days), and “nagar layt” (facing dragon) in Myanmar calendars. “Don’t move towards a dragon facing in the opposite direction and waiting to swallow you up” is the idea behind this direction finder. Fortune tellers especially love to couple their advice with certain days. Like […]
Lin Yu Chun, ‘Taiwan’s Susan Boyle’, signs Sony record deal The shy and portly singer who shot to fame after appearing on a Taiwanese talent show is to record his debut album Lin Yu Chun, ‘Taiwan’s Susan Boyle’, signs Sony record deal | Music | guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/may/14/lin-yu-chun-sony-record-deal Lin Yu Chun, Taiwan‘s bow-tied “answer to Susan […]
Sailor Jessica Watson to fall short of official round-the-world record | The Australian http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/sailor-jessica-to-fall-short-of-official-round-the-world-record/story-e6frg6nf-1225862771532 DESPITE her heroics at sea, teenage solo sailor Jessica Watson is set to be denied formal recognition of being the youngest to circumnavigate the globe alone and unassisted. As the 16-year-old entered the home stretch of her epic journey, battling heavy […]
Photos: The Sinuous Vision of Architect Zaha Hadid – Photo Essays – TIME http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1985954_2131979,00.html Zaha Hadid – The 2010 TIME 100 – TIME http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1984685_1984745_1984651,00.html YouTube – Interview with Zaha Hadid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk-vhQSycfI&feature=related Zaha Hadid and Amman’s New Performing Art Center. http://bit.ly/deWdNZ YouTube – Zaha Hadid Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27rjmtgyyHo&feature=related YouTube – Zaha Hadid Talking About Challenges of Architecture […]
Shwemannmayမနေ ့က ည က ပူလွန်းလို ့ မအိပ်နိုင်ပါဘူး။ အိမ်ပြင်ထွက်ထိုင်တော့လည်း ခြင်ကကိုက်တာမို ့ ခြင်ထောင်ထဲမှာပဲ ငုတ်တုတ်ထိုင်ယပ်ခတ်နေရပါတယ်။ မီးက ၁၁ နာရီကျ ပြန်လာမှာမို ့ မီးလာရင်တော့ အဲ ကွန်းလေးနဲ ့အိပ်ကြမယ်ဆိုပြီး မီးအလာကို စောင့်နေကြတာပါ။ အမေကတော့ ယပ်ခတ်ရင်းနဲ ့ တစ်ချက်တစ်ချက်မှိန်းနေ တာပေါ့လေ။ ဒီနွေကပူလွန်းတော့ ကလေးသူငယ်တွေနဲ ့သက်ကြီးရွယ်အိုတွေ အပူဒဏ်ကို အတော်ခံစားရရှာပါတယ်။ အိ်ပ်ပျော်နေတဲ့အမေကို ယပ်ခတ်ပေးရင်း ဒီအသက်အရွယ်ထိ မိဘကို ပြုစုစောင့်ရှောက်ခွင့်ပေးတဲ့ ကံတရားကို ကျေးဇူးအတော်တင်မိပါတယ်။ တဆက်တည်း မှာ ငယ်ငယ်တုန်းကဖတ်ဖူးတဲ ့စာအုပ်တစ်အုပ်ထဲက စာပိုဒ်လေးကိုသတိရလို ့မန္တလေးဂဇက်မှာ တင်မယ်လို ့ တေးထားလိုက်ပါတယ်။ အခု ရောက်ရောက်ချင်းပဲ စာစီပြီး တင်ပေးလိုက်ပါတယ်။ ဘာသာရေးစာအုပ်တစ်အုပ်မှာ ဖတ်ဖူးတာပါ။ […]
Holi – (Indian Thingyan) II Both festivals are derived from Hindu mythology. However, water festivals in Burma and other parts of South east Asia and in Yunnan, have a different version from Indian Holi. Both of them are occasions of great fun and merriment, songs and dances, and of joyful splashing. Enjoy the different cultures […]
YouTube – Burmese New Year Celebration in New York (April 17, 2010) YouTube – Burmese New Year Celebration in New York (April 17, 2010) April 19, 2010 — Burmese New Year Funfair which is organized by International Burmese Monks Organization held in Queens, New York… YouTube – New york thingyan 2010 (part 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yFxtH_WuyQ YouTube […]
YouTube – Myanmar8888(Mingalar Doe prepair for 2010 Thingyan)4-4-2010,tokyo-1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8qtC91r118&feature=related YouTube – Myanmar8888(Mingalar Doe prepair for 2010 Thingyan)4-4-2010,tokyo-2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cATYxaWDLmc&feature=related YouTube – Myanmar8888(Mingalar Doe prepair for 2010 Thingyan)4-4-2010,tokyo-3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N98qGYZ_H9k&feature=related YouTube – 19 th Tokyo Myanmar Thingyan Festival -11-4-2010 -Part-1.wmv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvkudyXYRqo&feature=related YouTube – 19th Tokyo Myanmar Thingyan Festival- 11-4-2010 -Part-2.wmv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brkCQfQ4Ews&feature=related YouTube – 19th Tokyo Myanmar Thingyan Festival- […]
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