[Buddha-l] This year's Mahakumbhmela

Piya Tan dharmafarer at gmail.com
Mon Mar 11 21:35:45 MDT 2013


Jo,

I have yet to receive the Iranian journal article you offered. This is my
3rd email, tatiyampi, as the Pali goes.

With metta, even if you forget to send,

Piya

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Jo <ugg-5 at spro.net> wrote:

> Happens every 144 years. Last time it happened Gen. Grant was President.
> Although it is not a Buddhist mela, Zuangzhang is said to have visited it,
> so there's the Buddhist ref. for this list.
> One wonders if it was going on in the Buddha's time-I sort of doubt it.
> This
> is one of the better articles I've seen on this vast pilgrimage-written by
> a
> Muslim novelist.
>
>
> http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/03/04/carnival-of-the-soul-at-ind
> ia-s-maha-kumbh-mela.html<http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/03/04/carnival-of-the-soul-at-india-s-maha-kumbh-mela.html>
>  or
>  http://tinyurl.com/a7royu4
>
> Joanna
>
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