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The Last Judgement (detail)

The Last Judgement (detail) https://www.wikiart.org/en/hieronymus-bosch/the-last-judgement-detail-of-the-dagger-1500

Feel like we're all perpetually trapped in this Marx quote: "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce".

Flyer for anarchist bookfair

The first Kurilpa Anarchist Bookfair, taking place in West End, Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia on May 4 2025, (Labour Day weekend).

A celebration of anarchism and all anarchists and friends are invited to participate.

If you'd like to run a stall contact kurilpaanarchistbookfair@protonmail.me

🗒️ The Teachings of Chao Khun Nararatana Rajamanit (A free, 6-page essay from 1997)

Tags: #Life #ThaiBuddhism #TBT

Engaged Buddhism: The Bodhisattva Path to Gender Equality in Thailand - Buddhistdoor Global In the wake of Thailand’s landmark Marriage Equality Act, BDG spoke with a key figure in the drive for social equality: Buddhist activist Hua Boonyapisomparn.

BDG feature: Engaged Buddhism: The Bodhisattva Path to Gender Equality in Thailand

Read here: tinyurl.com/3zd3txz2

#buddhism #engagedbuddhism #compassion #ineb #thailand #bangkok #marriageequality #gender #genderequality #transgender #buddhistactivism #lgbtq #socialchange #humanrights

It's not just X and Musk who are evil. Time to get off Chrome and Safari too

as a child i often started to panic very much when my parents were a little late at work, cuz I was very afraid of being alone for too long. So I thought it would be funny to draw Bee in the same situation XD

#TransformersOne #Bumblebee #OptimusPrime #ElitaOne

Buddhist Quote for Today: A spiritual tradition is not a shallow stream in which one can wet one’s feet and then beat a quick retreat to the shore. It is a mighty, tumultuous river which would rush through the entire landscape of one’s life, and if one truly wishes to travel on it, one must be courageous enough to launch one’s boat and head out for the depths. ― Bhikkhu Bodhi See more: buddhistdoor.net

Buddhist Quote for Today: Bhikkhu Bodhi

See more: buddhistdoor.net

#buddhistquotes #buddha #dharma #dhamma #buddhism #wisdom #theravada #usa #srilanka #liberation #mindfulness #meditation #compassion #peace #buddhistpractice #bodhisattva #quoteoftheday

I wish I could say this was unbelievable

But it’s all too believable

Title and opening folios of the gold manuscript titled Elucidation of the Visions Recorded in the Sealed Volume. It is five folios of black paper with gold ink, four pages have illustrations in the margins of Buddhist masters in the transmission lineage of the rituals. After Samten Karmay, Secret Visions of the Fifth Dalai Lama (Serindia 1988).

#ManuscriptMonday DC coup edition.

Illustrations from the gold manuscript Visions and their Significance: Elucidation of the Visions Recorded in the Sealed Volume, summary of a longer work by the great Fifth Dalai Lama.

Many of the rituals are for averting and repelling evil forces.

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Island Town (Krumau Town Crescent)

Island Town (Krumau Town Crescent), 1915
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25722

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal
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Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Agnes Mongan

Three Men in a Boat https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/295275

IWW "Sabo Kitty" logo with words, "An injury to one, is an injury to all."

This is a scary time, but also one where people across divisions could in theory link up and offer real solidarity and support to each other.

We have a choice - allow different groups of people to be targeted, or show up and stand with everyone under attack.

adorable watching sincere marxists trying to understand contemporary anarchism through chomsky and graeber

Get in there

In this painting, Tagore depicts Queen Tissarakshita, the young consort of Ashoka, the ancient Buddhist Emperor of India. He paints her face in profile with the distinctive arched eyebrow of Rajput painting. Perspective is minimal, and large areas of flat colour are enlivened by very subtle shading. What Tagore recognised as the bhava ('feeling') of earlier South Asian painting became the essence of his own practice. He captures Tissarakshita's conflicting feelings of triumph and regret as she stares at the wilting sacred Bodhi tree. Having heard her husband praise and send jewels to the Bodhi, she presumed the tree was another woman and out of jealousy gave orders for her rival to be poisoned. It is appropriate in many ways that this painting, portraying the consort of one of the earliest Indian Emperors, was presented to Queen Mary, India’s penultimate Queen-Empress. An admirer of Art Nouveau, it is possible that Mary identified a similar aesthetic of spirituality and nostalgia in the art of the Bengal School painters. Tagore’s Queen has been described as a quintessential fin-de-siècle femme fatale and, like many Modernist painters from South Asia, he has received both admiration and reproach for an apparent appeasement to Western aesthetic sensibilities and Orientalist fantasies of the East. Tagore pioneered the Bengal School, the first nationalist art movement in India. His works draw upon South Asian history and employ earlier South Asian as well as Japanese painting traditions using the ‘low-status’ medium of watercolour in direct resistance to the Western style of art practice represented by the work of Ravi Varma and taught at Government Art Schools in India. He is widely credited with the construction of a new "Indian" cultural identity during the independence movement.

Tissarakshita, Queen of Asoka by Abanindranath Tagore (Indian) - Watercolor plus gold & silver over graphite pencil on paper / c. 1911 - Royal Collection Trust (London, England) #womeninart #indianart #art #painting #womensart #অবনীন্দ্রনাথঠাকুর #AbanindranathTagore #fineart #indian #artwork #watercolor

Folios from the illustrated Tibetan text "All-Clarifying Mirror of Exemplary Illustrations for the Examination of Inimical Earth Forces as Valued Everywhere for Construction, Agriculture, Graves, and So On."

Folios from the illustrated Tibetan text "All-Clarifying Mirror of Exemplary Illustrations for the Examination of Inimical Earth Forces as Valued Everywhere for Construction, Agriculture, Graves, and So On."

Folios from the illustrated Tibetan text "All-Clarifying Mirror of Exemplary Illustrations for the Examination of Inimical Earth Forces as Valued Everywhere for Construction, Agriculture, Graves, and So On."

Folios from the illustrated Tibetan text "All-Clarifying Mirror of Exemplary Illustrations for the Examination of Inimical Earth Forces as Valued Everywhere for Construction, Agriculture, Graves, and So On."

It's #ManuscriptMonday! Here are opening folios of the heavily illustrated Tibetan text (from Mongolia) with the modest title

"All-Clarifying Mirror of Exemplary Illustrations for the Examination of Inimical Earth Forces as Valued Everywhere for Construction, Agriculture, Graves, and So On."

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Mostly Chinese text with image of deity riding geese

This week’s #ManuscriptMonday is the 12th-c. Compendium of Iconographic Drawings (圖像抄), filled with information about Buddhist deities and how to depict them. Pictured here is Brahma riding on geese, his traditional mount. Princeton University Art Museum artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/...

Gift of Frank Vincent, 1885

Head of Buddha https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/39274

Rogers Fund, 1918

Abhisarika Nayika, a Heroine Longing for Her Lover https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/37992

Seymour and Rogers Funds, 1976

Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana at the Hermitage of Bharadvaja: Illustrated folio from a dispersed Ramayana series https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/37955

Charges dropped against bar patron who confronted neo-Nazi gatecrashers Benjamin Squire had been facing jail time after he was charged over a melee involving 20 neo-Nazis at a Melbourne bar.

Today antifascists can celebrate that charges were dropped (and costs awarded) for our comrade, who, along with other antifascists, defended Café Gummo (and our fundraiser) from the National Socialist Network in 2023. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

The attack on the synagogue in Melbourne is completely despicable and the only sensible reaction is abject horror and solidarity with the Jewish community. Less than 24 hours after the firebombing, conspiracy theories were circulating about the attack which serve to minimise the very real trauma & terror experienced by the Adass Israel community. We've seen a small cohort of so-called "left" reactionaries and grifters who believe that places of worship are legitimate targets for firebombing attacks. These people are toxic and contribute nothing of worth to an essential campaign against a cruel & unrelenting genocide - in fact they actively harm that movement. They need to be shunned. The logic that a shul in Melbourne should bear responsibility for war crimes in Gaza is the same logic which the IDF employs.

Some thoughts on some of the responses we've seen to the firebombing of the Adass Israel Synagogue of Melbourne in Ripponlea.

The word 'enemy' is closely related to 'amicable', 'amorous', 'enamour', 'amable', 'amiable', 'amity'.

They all derive from Latin 'amāre' (to love; to like).

From its derivative 'amīcus' (friendly), 'inimīcus' was derived, literally "unfriendly". Via Old French, this became 'enemy'.

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