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Buddhist Meditation on the Foul, and the Body in Horror Manga - by Videshi Sutra
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DADAISM in Japan!
Dada (ダダ) are a humanoid alien race that attacked Earth and started abducting humans to advance some form of research. A character from the Japanese TV show "Utraman".
Jun Tsuji (辻 潤) (1884 - 1944) was a Japanese writer, translator, theater actor, musician, monk and philosopher of anarchism, egoism, nihilism, Dada and Buddhism. There is a book about him - by Erana Jae Taylor, a collection of poems (PDF) and more poems.
Shinkichi Takahash (wiki) (1901 - 1987), Japanese poet and pioneer of Dadaism in Japan. According to Makoto Ueda, he is also the only major Zen poet of modern Japanese literature.
The Art Of Nothingness: Dada, Taoism, And Zen - by Erin Megan Lochmann (2011) (PDF)
Abstract: When examining the art, actions, and writings of Zurich Dadaists it becomes apparent that there is an affinity with Eastern thought, namely Taoism and Zen Buddhism. It cannot be said that Eastern thought directly influenced the artistic production of these Dadaists. However, the philosophy of Dada artists in Zurich mirrors that of Taoism and Zen so strongly that this connection cannot be ignored.
Was Japanese Dada Even Tougher Than Its European Versions? - by Blake Gopnik (2016)
"Today’s Pic illuminates an arm of the international Dada movement about which I was totally ignorant – its Japanese arm. I’m showing the cover of a 1924 issue of the Japanese Dada journal called Mavo, edited by Tatsuo Okada and the Berlin-trained Tomoyoshi Murayama. Mavo originally came with a firecracker attached to its cover: How many museums or libraries would want that detail “read” outloud in their halls?"
MAVO was a radical Japanese art movement of the 1920s. The group used an interdisciplinary array of art, to communicate anti-establishment messages. Fueled by responses to industrial development, the MAVO group created works about crisis, peril and uncertainty. (wikipedia)
Dada theory and the current noise scene in Japan (JP only)
Dada movement's influence felt in Tokyo 100 years after launch in Europe
Photo: Swiss Ambassador to Japan Urs Bucher (left) poses for photos with "Dada," a monster in a popular TV series created as an extension of Dadaism, in Tokyo.
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Jumping capability of a four-legged structure - #Art by Edgard de Souza (via)
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Dresden Codex
The Dresden Codex is a Mayan book, the oldest surviving from the Americas, dating to the 13th or 14th century. The codex was rediscovered in the city of Dresden, Germany, hence the book's present name. It is located in the museum of the Saxon State Library.
Images from "Dresden Codex, Mayan Art, and enjoying an unknowable other"
Deciphering the Maya Script - talk by Michael Coe (Yale University)
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The Five Gentlemen With One Eye (目五先生)
"Today we will talk about a kind of ghost in Chinese mythology called The Five Gentlemen with One Eye 一目五先生 from the book What The Master Would Not Discuss 子不语, a collection of supernatural stories compiled by Yuan Mei 袁枚 during the Qing dynasty 清朝 published in 1788."
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Qigong Classics
This video presents "Eight Pieces of Silk Brocade - Ba Duan Jine" (八段錦), the ancient Chinese Qigong exercise. Practiced daily, it can slow down the aging process & improve health.
This video presents the "Muscle-Tendon Change Classic - Yijin Jing" (易筋經), the ancient Chinese Qigong exercise.
This video presents the "Six Healing Sounds - Liu Zi Jue" (六字訣), the ancient Chinese Qigong exercise, involving coordination of movement & breathing patterns with specific sounds.
This video presents the "Five Animals Frolics - Wu Qin Xi" (五禽戲), the ancient Chinese Qigong exercise, including Tiger, Crane, Leopard, Snake, and Dragon.
