CENSORED: the Breasts of Mardi Gras (video)

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(CTFxC) Mardi Gras on Bourbon Street, New Orleans: adults play in a Dionysian display

Carnaval?

Carnal and hedonistic cravings come over one before revelers retire to a Lenten period of religious reflection and guilt, at least for practitioners of French and Roman Catholicism but maybe not so much for followers of Santeria, Voodoo/Houdou, Satanism, and/or Protestantism.

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The best thing about being Catholic is that, before the penitent ascetic period of Lent, there is the wanton excess and guilty delights of Carnivale (flesh-fest, "leaving behind carne" or meat), which comes to a climax on Mardi Gras or "Fat[tening up] Tuesday," the last chance to grow obese by eating slaughtered animals (other than fish, insects, and whatever other way of cheating there is) for 40 days.

 

In ancient Christian Ethiopia, in fact, "fasting" (not eating) means eating only vegetarian food.

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In Brazil and other Catholic strongholds, the feast/fest is bigger than India's Eunuchs' Festival, a time of homosexual debauchery because they are not really eunuchs. The problem is one of translation for the odd and ill defined Buddhist term pandaka, which means something more like "pervert," sodomite, transsexual, transgender, third gender (Thai kathoey), transvestite, hermaphrodite, receptive or effeminate homosexual, rapacious pansexual, sex addict, and/or gender nonnormative individual.

 

(CJO/cdbaby.com) Boobs, booze, and exhibitionism on Bourbon St., USA

  

It is likely that pandakas rather than gays were excluded from monastic participation in accordance with the Disciplinary Code. But for the ancients, what was "gay" and what was "perverse" were different from our changing definitions. Pandaka is Sanskrit, meaning "without testicles, hermaphroditic, or homosexual."

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Sextremism means death to patriarchy.

Femen announces the launch of a US branch of Sextremists. "I can't name enemies, as it’s strategic information that we don't share. But I can assure you sure that once American women are trained and ready to act as Femen, every place of gender injustice, every representative of patriarchal culture, will be a target of FEMEN USA. We will not leave religious institutions in peace, with their lobbying for anti-women policies. And Republican politicians will not walk the streets without worry [if they] lobby for anti-women legislation. Femen is a special troop of reaction and punishment." TO JOIN CONTACT: femen.ks@gmail.com More

Who celebrates pre-lenten festivals?

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Carnivale is traditionally held in areas with a large Catholic and to a lesser extent, Eastern Orthodox makeup. Protestant areas usually do not have such celebrations or have modified traditions, such as the Danish Carnival or other Shrove Tuesday events. Conversely, the Philippines, although a predominantly Roman Catholic country, does not celebrate Carnival because it has been culturally influenced by neighboring Buddhist Asian nations, which do not (philstar.com).

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"Buddha 2" of trilogy at The Louvre (video)

Dhr. Seven (trans.), CC Liu (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly; Louvre; AnimeAnime.jp; Yushi Makari (OtakuMode.com); Kevin Ouellette (Eigapedia); Domenico (Debris2008); Ashley Wells (ed.)

Osamu Tezuka's "Buddha 2" (Owarinaki Tabi)

 

The official website dedicated to the trilogy "Buddha" is bringing out Toei Animation's adaptation of the famous eight-volume comic (manga) by Osamu Tezuka.

 

"Buddha" was created by the Japanese master in the 1970s and dedicated to the life of Prince Siddhartha, who became the Buddha. Toei has finally released the first full length trailer devoted to the second chapter, the completion of which has been postponed until 2014.

 

The second video is a long form manga, about nine minutes, which recaps the first movie and anticipates the next with some pictures of the second published last year.

 

(See full below) （主題歌：浜崎あゆみ）『手塚治虫のブッダ－終わりなき旅－』予告編 (MC)

 

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In the first chapter of the trilogy we saw a young prince wonder about the social differences between people, differences that led him to a better position among them. He falls in love with a bandit girl, Migaila, and learns some hard lessons about life, love, and about himself. He is starting to find his own vision of life and disappointment (dukkha, "suffering").

 
In the second part, we see the comeback of Sayuri Yoshinaga, interpreter, and Kanze Kiyokazu (performer at the Noh Theater) in the role of Siddhartha's mother and father, the latter always having been played by Hidetaka Yoshioka. 

 

The returning Nana Mizuki, Kenichi Matsuyama, is a thief seeking revenge. And the comedian Tetsuo Nakanishi plays the role of Brahmā, who appears to Siddhartha in the guise of an old man in a position to offer him a path to enlightenment. (Who better to play the role of a supreme cosmic deity than a comedian?)

 

"Buddha 2" (full-length trailer)

 (Animeanimeno1) BUDDHA 2: 手塚治虫のブッダー終わりなき旅―2014年公開決定 (AA)

 

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In both movies we hear the original song by Ayumi Hamasaki from the second film, entitled "Pray." This is the first time in 12 years that this author, who is well known in Japan, returns to do the music for a work of anime.

The film's release is scheduled for Feb. 8, 2014. The world premiere will be launched in Paris. For the event, the French capital will open one of the halls of the Louvre Museum. This is the first time for a preview of this type at the Louvre. There have been lectures and even screenings but never a world premiere. The film's cast and the staff will be present. Commendably, the manga "Buddha" was published in Italy by Hazard. 

 

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"Bouddah 2" (Debris2008/flickr.com)

Il sito ufficiale dedicato alla trilogia, che la Toei Animation stà realizzando per adattare in animazione il celebre manga di Osamu Tezuka, Buddha creato dal Maestro giapponese negli anni settanta e dedicato alla vita del principe Siddharta, il Buddha, ha finalmente diffuso un primo lungo trailer dedicato al secondo capitolo Buddha 2: Tezuka Osamu no Buddha ~ Owarinaki Tabi (Osamu Tezuka's Buddha: Awakening) la cui uscita era stata rimandata al 2014.Il secondo video è un lungo filmato, circa 9 minuti, di ricapitolazione/anticipazione riferito al primo film con alcune immagini del secondo pubblicato lo scorso anno. Nel primo capitolo della trilogia abbiamo visto un giovane principe interrogarsi sulle differenze sociali fra gli uomini, differenze che pure lo hanno portato in una posizione di supremazia fra di loro, innamorarsi di una banditessa, Migaila, ed imparare alcune dure lezioni sulla vita, sull'amore e su se stesso iniziando a individuare una propria visione della vita e della sofferenza. 

 

Nella seconda parte torneranno Sayuri Yoshinaga, interprete ed Kanze Kiyokazu (interprete del teatro Noh) nel ruolo della madre e del padre di Siddharta, quest'ultimo sempre interpretato da Hidetaka Yoshioka, la stessa Nana Mizuki, Kenichi Matsuyama, un ladro in cerca di vendetta, ed l'attore comico Tetsuo Nakanishi che interpreterà il ruolo di Brahma, che appare a Siddharta nelle vesti di un vecchio in grado di offrirgli un cammino verso l'illuminazione...( a chi, d'altronde, meglio di un comico il ruolo di una divinità cosmica?) In ambedue i filmati è possibile ascoltare la canzone originale canta per questo secondo film da Ayumi Hamasaki, intitolata "Pray", è la prima volta, dopo dodici anni che questo autrice, molto nota in Giappone, torna impegnarsi su una musica per un'anime. 

 

L'uscita del film è prevista per l'8 febbraio l'anteprima mondiale del film sarà realizzata a Parigi, e la capitale francese per l'occasione aprirà una delle sale del Museo del Louvre, è la prima volta che si tengono anteprime di questo tipo al Louvre, conferenze, proiezioni vi sono già state ospitate ma non si era mai avuta un'anteprima mondiale. Sia il cast che lo staff del film dovrebbero essere presenti al completo. Il manga di Buddha è stato meritoriamente edito in Italia da Hazard.

The Habits of Happiness (Matthieu Ricard)

Ashley Wells, Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly; Ven. Matthieu "Happiest Man in the World" Ricard, Ph.D., TEDtalks (innovations in Technology, Engineering, Design)

(TED.com) What is happiness, and how can we ALL get some? Vajrayana Buddhist monk, renowned French scientist, photographer, Tibetan translator, and author Matthieu Ricard has devoted his life to these questions. And his answer is influenced by his conviction as well as by his scientific turn of mind: We can train our minds in habits of happiness. Interwoven with his talk are stunning photographs of the Himalayas and of his spiritual community.

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森の木琴,   ドコモのサイトでステキな映像発見。 (Touchwood) 

Go to the woods of Kyushu (Japan), engineer a massive xylophone down the slope of a forested hill. Take a wooden ball, place it at the top, and push it. What do you get? Bach's treatment of a traditional church hymn! All this for a Japanese commercial for a curved smartphone with the tagline, "Touch Wood" (onbeing.org).