Monday 31 October 2011

A Story of Bodhidharma - 7th Sense








DARUMA - Father of Zen Buddhism From Buddhahood to Brothel, From Saint to Sinner The Evolution of Daruma Artwork in Japan.

The historical Bodhidharma (known as Daruma in Japan) was an Indian sage who lived sometime in the fifth or sixth century AD. He is commonly considered the founder of Chan (Zen) Buddhism 禅, and credited with Chan's introduction to China. (Important Note: Zen is the term used in Japan, but Daruma's philosophy arrived first in China, where it flowered and was called Chan Buddhism. Only centuries later does it bloom in Japan, where it is called Zen).

Practically nothing is known about Bodhidharma or his teachings. Early Chinese texts provide scant information, except to say he was a pious monk from Indian who came to China and introduced a form of meditation that involved "gazing at cave walls." Only one of the ten texts attributed to Bodhidharma is presently considered authentic. <Broughton, p. 4> The lack of robust historical evidence concerning Bodhidharma, paradoxically, is offset by countless legends about this sage. Legends come in two varieties -- the orthodox Chinese version, and the far more fanciful Japanese version. Both versions are considered largely apocryphal, containing layer upon layer of embellishments and legendary accretions spanning many centuries. Modern scholars and art historians are trying to discern the underlying historical figure by stripping away the ideological, idealizing, & idolizing accretions.  




MUST READ, DARUMA'S EVOLUTION IN JAPANIn his article The Patriarch Who Came From the West. Daruma, Smallpox and the Color Red, the Double Life of a Patriarch, Professor Bernard Faure (Columbia University) explores the relationship between the Bodhidharma legend and the popular image of Daruma in Japan and explains how the austere Chan patriarch eventually became a tumbler doll. This is a "must read" for anyone interested in Daruma. The text which follows is reproduced verbatim from the article.

How did the austere Chan patriarch ever become a tumbler doll? It is a complicated and obscure story. To understand it, we have to unravel many strands that were woven together into one figure. Daruma will thus appear to us successively as:
  • a malevolent spirit (goryō 御霊)
  • a crossroad deity (dōsojin 道祖神) associated with sexuality
  • a placenta god (ena kōjin 胎盤荒神)
  • "foreign" epidemic deity (god of Mt. Songshan 嵩山 and Shinra Myōjin 新羅明神)
  • a smallpox deity (hōsōgami or hōsōkami 疱瘡神); the Japanese god of smallpox,
  • a god of fortune (fukujin 福神)
Other elements contributed to his posthumous success. Let us mention for instance:
  • the symbolism of komori, incubation, reclusion, gestation, and its relation with easy childbirth on the one hand, and silkworms and sericulture on the other.
  • the color symbolism (red) and spatial (south): fire, exorcism, yang
  • the tumbling doll device (with its sexual connotations and its symbolism of rebirth or recovery)
This gradual entertwining of motifs was essentially realized during the medieval period.

 
READ THE FULL STORY HERE: The Patriarch Who Came From the West. Daruma, Smallpox and the Color Red, the Double Life of a Patriarch, Professor Bernard Faure (Columbia University).



 
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Sunday 30 October 2011

Surya - Murugadas's 7th Sense Movie Review


Tamil Sensational Hero Surya and Creative Director AR Murugadoss gave again a unbelievable, tremendous, amazing Hit for this year ending 2011.  The film inspiring message, the elements like comradeship, genetic science and DNA make it seem a doughty attempt on the part of the Ghajini maker. The Director is perfectly picturised on screen, what he thought and his research on genetic engineering.


The film begins on a lavish scale.  Set in the AD 520, it recreates both the centuries-old Pallava country in the south of the Vindhyas and the bucolic China in a realistic manner.  Beginning on a high note, the narrator here tells us the story of Bodhidharma.  A martial arts exponent, who was also a Charaka Samhitha cognoscente, Bodhidharma (Suriya) travels to China upon being instructed by his guru matha.  Passing through many a landscape, he reaches the neighboring country, only to be ostracized by the xenophobic people in that part of China.  Soon they realize that Bodhi possesses diviner powers after he heals those affected by a deadly disease by applying his knowledge of Bharatiya medicine.  He attains a heroic status in the society when he defends the village from the onslaught of aliens in a remarkably executed fight.  This gravity-defying action sequence, shot on Suirya and foreign fighters, is a visual treat.  Imagine a fight where a clairvoyant hero who can control the five elements takes on armed men.  This fight just lives up to your expectations.  And, Suriya's Rasputinesque beard adds a saintly charm to the fight.

Coming back to the story, the film cuts to the present after the death of Bodhi.  Aravind (Suirya again) is a circus performer, who lives in Chennai with an incredible lineage.  Shuba Srinivas (Shruti Hassan) is a research scholar, who is pursuing genetic engineering and hopes to apply the study to her research of Bodhidharma' DNA.  She aims to trigger the dormant genetic memory of the descendant of Bodhi with the highest percentage of his (Bodhi's) DNA.  No prizes for guessing that Aravind is that descendant.


Meanwhile, China has plans to declare a bio-war on India by infecting at least 3 million Indians with a deadly virus (of the kind which killed lakhs of Chinese sixteen hundred years ago).  But there is a threat to the success of its mission.  Bodhidharma can return in the body of Aravind anytime if Shuba's futuristic experiment succeeds.  (We are told that the idea is in its nascent stages in the US; nevertheless, our heroine is making fast progress in it even while having all the fun with our hero!).  The tone for a larger-than-life stand-off is set when Dong Lee (Johnny Tri Nguye) comes to India to accomplish Operation Red and eliminate the brilliant Shuba.
How does Aravind comes to acquire the almost-superhuman powers of his ancestor, Bodhi?  What problems do Shuba and he have to face in their selfless adventure of saving millions of life from being affected by the life-killing virus?  Answers to these questions are answered in the second half, which is watchable not for the way the story unfolds but for two-three magnificent action episodes and a nice number.  The characterization of the villain Dong Lee is another major high light to the .

+ Points: 7th Sense works great in bits and pieces.  The first 15-minute block reminds you of what Kamal Hassan achieved in Dasavatharam.  For a change, the destructive anti-hero possesses immense hypnotic powers and each sequence where he wrecks catastrophe after catastrophe is brilliant.  (You have policemen gunning each other down, a nice road fight where vehicles fly and the common man takes on our hero and heroine under the magical influence of the villain).  The way Shuba and friends plan to deal with the situation by locking themselves up in a lab located in the forest in the vicinity of IIT-Madras to work on reinvigorating Bodhi's genetic traits in Aravind works well.  The discourse of genetic memory and engineering the DNA of a person is a  fresh concept in an Indian film, but the director fails to take it forward.  The genius of our ancestors is invoked to inspire the nation to bring back to life the buried wisdom of Indians.  The graphics are eye-pleasing.  Fortunately, the songs do not intrude the narrative in the second half. 

Minuses: The Director does not give the importance and duration time the climax, which should be justified to the entire story this is the major drawback to the movie.  The Climax finished with one small press meet of hero and heroine with small and less dialogues with no justification that how the hero achieved the solution for the disease and reaction of the China President and Indian President on this incident.  the film has too many fault lines.  To begin with, the romantic track that begins just after the flashback and continues to harass us till almost just before the interval block is, to say the least, misplaced.  Where was the need for two duets and a tragedy song of the hero after he comes to know that Shuba is after him to use him for her research?  The entire track is not imperative to the story.  We understand the director/writer's commercial need to infuse the usual dose of filmi eccentricities, but the audience don't go to theaters expecting to see such stuff in a much-touted sci fi thriller.  It would have made sense to keep it minimalist.  The songs in the first half are intrusive.  Climax dialogues could have been much better.  However, The film is smash hit for the year 2011.
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Sunday 23 October 2011

News Headlines Today - Turkey Earth Quake

Earth Quake is again attacked in Turkey recorded as 7.3 magnitude such as power full on Richter Scale on 23rd October 2011.  10,000 number of people, who died by collapsed building and other damages in many towns of Turkey by this powerful Earthquake in Turkey.  Desperate survivors dug into the rubble with their bare hands, trying to rescue the trapped and injured.



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Saturday 22 October 2011

Mahesh Babu Latest Film The Business Man Updates



The Bussiness Man, which is the Biggest Most awaited Super Star Mahesh Babu and Dashing Director Puri Jagannath's 2nd Combination Movie in Tollywood.  Moreover, Bollywood and Kolywood Super Stars eyes on this movie result.  Mahesh and Puri Jagannath were Breaked the 80 years Tollywood Insustry Film Records after that the crazy combination are being hit with The Bussiness Man.  The Cute Heroine Kajal Agarval is stared with Mahes in this Movie.  Tollywood Music Wonder Boy Thaman is giving Music for this Movie. The tentative release date of this Movie is during January 2012 on the eve of Sankranthi.


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Sunday 16 October 2011

Shahrukh Khan's Latest Wonder Ra.One Movie News




Ra.One is the Boollywood Badhshah Shahrukh Khan's prestigious Film.  Also another Super Star Rajani Kanth adds attraction to this movie.  Ra One is coming with the crazy combination of Shahrukh and Kareena.  Ra one expecting to hit in all Indian major languages like, Hendi, Telugu, Tamil, etc and will releasing with Record Breakable Prints in December 2011.  Shahrukh Kan is spent all his energy to the film Raone.  All the Shahrukh Khan Fans and Audiences are Expecting the movie will Tremendous Hit to him.

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Poonam Pandy's MMS Leaked and Spread over Internet

Now all the netegens are searching for "POONAM PANDEY'S LEAKED MMS" news that an MMS of Poonam Pandey is out on the internet has spread like a Virus. The keyword 'Poonam Pandey MMS' is one of the most searched on Google India.

Actually, this much hyped 'MMS' is not just a photo shoot video of Poonam but she is seen Changing Costumes on the Shoot while shooting for a International magazine.

Poonam herself is fanning the fire and she has tweeted links to the video and has also put it up on her Facebook page.

The Most downloaded model on the Internet in a reaction tweet says, "i dono What do People get Making such MMS on me Shooting it like a ghost n Uploading them ... i was just on a shoot but then such Acts hahah."

Poonam Pandey came to limelight after announcing publicly that she would strip in front of the Indian cricket team if they win the Cricket World Cup.

"We were all born nude. People take nudity as vulgarity. I see it in a different way. If I keep it as an offer for bringing the World Cup to India, which incidentally worked (laughs), I see no harm in it," said Poonam in an interview.





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Friday 14 October 2011

Kajal Agarval Hot Topless Photo Shoot


Kajal Agarval is most famous heroine in Tollywood.  She is reached almost Top Chair in Tollywood, recently she got chances in Bollywood and participated in Hot Photo Shoot for a Famous Film Magazine's Cover Page with Top Less, almost nude.  This pictures has been leaked in the Internet and the Actress Kazal Agarwal has expressed that top less photos which is the gossip as that's me is not mine.  That Topless Photos are edited by the experts and published with my face and another body for the benefit of Magazine only.  The Bollywood Actress Kajal Agarval is still not accepted that photos.  Whom knows that what is the fact.. Ok Kajal be careful at least today onwards..

Thursday 13 October 2011

Poonam Pandy's MMS

Poonam Pandey's MMS clip hit the net

By: Bollywood Mantra Staff on 17th June 2011
Model Poonam Pandey is again hitting the headlines for all wrong reasons. After making a bizarre statement of stripping down if India wins the world cup, she is making news for her MMS stripping clip.
The clip shows Poonam Pandey stripping down her clothes for a swimwear calendar shoot. She had herself posted the picture on her Facebook and Twitter Page.
Reacting to all the hype and hoopla surrounding her MMS, Poonam tweeted, “I dono What do People get Making such MMS on me Shooting it like a ghost n Uploading them ... i was just on a shoot but then such Acts hahah.”

She further added, “i never knew People made My MMS and also Uploaded on Youtube saying it a ‘STRIP ACT’ have a look.”

Well, Poonam knows how to remain in the limelight.

Wednesday 12 October 2011

Pawan Kalyan Completed 15 Years



Power Star Pawan Kalyan has been completed 15 years as a Film Star.  All are felt that really he is completed 15 years...!  he looks and behaves not like that.  Even though he is a brother of Chiranjeevi, he is still maintaining simplicity.  The Power Star's upcoming latest movie is scheduled to release during December 2011.  Fans awaited much more for his upcoming projects.  The Star also completing movies fastly to entertain the fans.  Best of Luck to the Power Star and his fans.


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