Tag: Traditional Societies
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“Tradition Does Not Confine Us – It Guides Us”
In a recent post I acknowledged my mixed feelings about traditional cultures. Subsequently, I came across this column by Tiffani Gyatso in Buddhistdoor Global. She writes beautifully about the tension between tradition and modernity and concludes: Tradition sustains; contemporaneity provokes. And perhaps the future of art—of those expressions that truly touch the human spirit—lies precisely…
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Sri Lanka Traditional Masks
Abigail King writes about her trip to Sri Lanka where she learns how to carve traditional masks. In the process she also learns about the meanings behind them. We’re in Galle in southern Sri Lanka, a windswept port with old stone ramparts, and years of tradition. If you left the palm trees by the crashing…
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How Traditional Societies Harvest Rainwater
In her show Sunita Narain talks about her journey through India’s villages where she learned about the extraordinary ways in which traditional societies harvest rainwater.
The Village Market 