The artists who wanted to rise above it all
The Transcendental Painting Group in New Mexico was sidelined for its esoteric beliefs, but its members are well worth another look, says Jonathan Griffin
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Modern Art and theosophy - Theosophical History
Mondrian (or Mondriaan) and Kandinsky: founders of modern art and interested in theosophy.
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Arguing With Racists - Colombo Telegraph
Arguing With Racists Epigraph: “Unhappy the land that has no heroes.” “No, unhappy the land that needs heroes.”~ (Brecht) Preface. St Augustine said he thinks he knows what time is but if someone were to ask him “What is time?”, he would find it difficult to answer. So it seems with the word “race”. We think we know its meaning and use the term with casual confidence. In literary theory, the Russian Formalists drew attention to the fact that language is the medium of literature, and one of the devices of literature was (through unusual use and collocation) to make strange th...
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LankaWeb – "The Historical and Philosophical Background of Buddhist festivals in Sri Lanka"-Ven. Dr. Rambukwelle Devananda
Posted on January 22nd, 2021 Book Review Dr. Sudath Gunasekara B. A. (Hons) (Geography) Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Ph. D. (Agriculture) Book Review Dr. Sudath Gunasekara B. A. (Hons) (Geography) Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Ph. D. (Agriculture) Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Visiting Lecture Univ. Peradeniya, Retired Permanent Secretary to Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaarnaayaka (SLAS) 21.1.2021. Ven. Dr. Rambukwelle DevanadaThera Chief incumbent of Sri Sambhodi Vihaara, Berlin, was awarded a Ph.D. (Dr. Phil) magna cum laude” with First Class Honours by the prestigious Berlin Humb...
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Anagarika Dharmapala: Tracing the trajectories of his pursuits
By Nandi Jasentuliyana, former Deputy Director-General, the United Nations.View(s): Book facts By Bhadrajee S. Hewage ‘The unexamined life is not worth living.’ – Socrates. Rarely has so much been written both in the West and in the East about the work of a ‘revivalist,’ that one would conclude there is nothing left to be revealed of the man or his work. That is until you read Bhadrajee Hewage’s “Anagarika Dharmapala and Ceylonese Buddhist Revivalism.” In his extensively researched and carefully crafted biography of the man whose mission was to make Buddhism a world religion...
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