Topically trivialised tropics

Since the art of the ‘moving image’ or cinema, arrived into the world of communication, the world itself underwent a revolution in terms of the dimensions that define ideas and perceptions. Just as the writer had power to interpret to the reader a world in words, the filmmaker too held an incomparable power of interpreting to the viewer the world in visuals that moved and had a voice.

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Encounters:

The Dhammapada and the study of classical texts

Part 4

The Dhammapada, which is basically a manual that summarizes the teachings of the Buddha in a readily understandable form, consists largely of propositions taken from earlier discourses. there are 423 stanzas in all, and as with most compilations of this nature, some of the verses are extremely poetic and enforce their intended message through the power of phrase and image, while others are less so, and carry less poetic conviction.

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