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Holland Cotter, On the Road With Seekers and Other Dharma Bums. New York
Times, Mar. 19, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/arts/design/19asian.html?sq=buddha&st=cse&adxnnl=1&scp=2&adxnnlx=1269280926-bnDQsMA73uibnM8lZxF3Fw

Note:
(a) The North Face
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_North_Face
(b) rucksack (n; German dial., from Rucken back + Sack sack): "KNAPSACK"
(c) Bodh Gaya
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodh_Gaya
(in Gaya district in the Indian state of Bihar)

Bodhi Tree 菩提樹
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhi_tree

(d) Ashoka the Great
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashoka_the_Great
(304-232 BC; "His name 'aśoka' means 'without sorrow' in Sanskrit (a=
no/without, soka= sorrow or worry)")

(e) stupa (n: Sanskrit): "a usually dome-shaped structure (as a mound)
serving as a Buddhist shrine"
(f) Ksitigarbha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksitigarbha
(Jizo 地蔵 in Japanese)
(g) jangle (n,v): "to make a harsh or discordant often ringing sound <keys
jangling in my pocket>"
(i) mendicant (n: Latin medicare to beg): "1: BEGGAR  2:  a member of a
religious order (as the Franciscans) combining monastic life and outside
religious activity and originally owning neither personal nor community
property"
(j) lamé (n; French): "a brocaded clothing fabric made from any of various
fibers combined with tinsel filling threads"

(k) captions to the slide show:
(i) For Gosainkund, see Gosaikunda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosainkunda
(also spelled Gosainkunda; a lake in Nepal that is the site of regular Hindu
pilgrimage)
(ii) reliquary (n; Latin reliquia relic): "a container or shrine in which
sacred relics are kept"

All English definitions are from www.m-w.com.

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