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By Richard Milner/Jan. 22, 2021 10:02 am EDT
When you think of mummies you might envision those ACE bandage-wearing guys pulled from sarcophagi in Egypt you know: all pharaonic, shrunken and distributing curses or maybe Universal Picture s miserably failed Dark Universe launch circa 2017 s Tom Cruise-led
The Mummy. (Actually, we re betting you didn t even remember that movie until right now, although you might remember Brendan Fraser s identically named 1999 movie.) But what you
don t probably think of is desiccated Buddhist monks hardened into a permanent, multi-hundred-year-old seated lotus position.
This is exactly the case, though, with members of Shingon, an ascetic, nondoctrinal sect of Buddhism that arose during Japan s Heian period (794-1185 CE), built from the tethers between Japan s native Shinto animism and Buddhism as it was imported from mainland China. Shingon monks followed Shugen
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Thailand powers towards a Green Economy
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When Somphote Ahunai returned to Bangkok after completing an MBA degree in the US, he had $200 left in the bank.
Today the renewable energy and electric vehicle company he founded has a market value of $5.6 billion and testifies to Thailand’s highly successful advance into green and sustainable industries.
After initially working as a securities trader, Somphote first entered the renewables business when he started producing biodiesel fuel from a palm oil plantation he had acquired. Then he moved his company, Energy Absolute Pcl, into solar and wind farms, growing to become the nation’s number two publicly-listed electricity supplier. Now Somphote has become a key figure in Thailand’s efforts to steer its highly successful automobile manufacturing industry – the world’s 11th largest – beyond the internal combustion engine era into the desig
養豚場の1250頭、殺処分完了 鶴岡で豚熱確認 yamagata-np.jp - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yamagata-np.jp Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.